Steve Adegbite is a senior security strategist within the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET). In his role, Adegbite is responsible for coordinating Adobe’s relationships with customers, partners in the security community and other external stakeholders.

Prior to joining Adobe, Adegbite was a member of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), where he most recently developed and managed Microsoft’s strategic information sharing programs—the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) and the Defensive Information Sharing Program (DISP) pilot for governments. Previously, Adegbite held several information operations positions at the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), both as a government employee and as an associate consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm. Adegbite started his career in the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Communication and Signal Intelligence community, where he founded the first ever USMC Information Assurance Red Team and was the officer in charge of the Marine Corps Emergency Response Team (MAR-CERT) component to the Joint Task Force Global Network Operation Center (JTF-GNO).

He is the current chairman of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), an international organization that brings together a wide variety of security and incident response teams, including product security teams from the government, commercial and academic sectors.