Revolutionizing Cybersecurity and Virtualization based Security via the invention of DeepSAFE Below-OS Security

Mr. Ahmed Sallam, founder and chief architect of DeepSAFE Technology®, is the original visionary and inventor behind the DeepSAFE technology developed jointly by McAfee and Intel—a pivotal milestone in the evolution of cybersecurity. His leadership unified both organizations’ engineering teams to design and implement a revolutionary architecture that embedded protection directly into the hardware, firmware, and hypervisor layers.

This innovation introduced a new security paradigm: protection below the operating system. The original DeepSAFE framework redefined how systems defend themselves—establishing trusted execution paths and isolated environments that became the foundation for virtualization-based security, firmware protection, and secure cloud infrastructure workloads across the industry.

The impact of this architecture was profound. It played a key strategic role in Intel’s $7.7 billion acquisition of McAfee, validating its immense commercial and technological significance. The design principles pioneered under Mr. Sallam’s direction have since influenced multiple generations of Intel processors, firmware platforms, and trusted computing standards.

Today, DEEPSAFE™, exclusively owned and evolved by DeepSAFE Technology® LLC, extends this legacy into a modern, proprietary framework that fuses hardware-assisted protection, below-OS security, and autonomous intelligence to secure people and enterprises across digital and physical worlds.

Through DEEPSAFE™, Mr. Sallam’s pioneering vision continues to define the frontier of safe, ethical, and deeply integrated cybersecurity for the next generation of intelligent and virtualized systems.