Malcolm Harkins is responsible for Intel's IT infrastructure & application security, data privacy & protection, Sarbanes Oxley, and overall IT controls & compliance activities. He is also responsible for corporate business continuity. His overall mission within Intel is to drive the adoption and continued operation of controls to mitigate information risks to acceptable business levels. Harkins has been with Intel since 1992 and has had responsibility for Information Security since 2002.

Harkins’ prior roles include positions in finance, procurement and operations. He also program managed IT benchmarking and Sarbanes Oxley systems compliance efforts and he was the profit and loss manager for Intel's Flash Product Group in the late 90's. He also co-authored an IT services business plan that lead to the creation of Intel Online Services, an external e-commerce hosting company.

Harkins has an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of California at Davis and a BA in Economics from the University of California at Irvine. Harkins is an active and accomplished speaker and whitepaper author.