Following our acquisition of NitroSecurity last year, we have been working towards fully integrating their Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology into our portfolio of solutions. McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (the fruit of our combined efforts) recently received a 5-star rating from SC Magazine, and now we are proud to announce that McAfee has Read more…
Tags: ESM, Gartner, NitroSecurity, SIEM
As IT environments grow increasingly complex and difficult to manage, the role of security information and event management (SIEM) technology has become more important than ever before. From attaining and maintaining compliance to providing operations support, detecting zero-day threats and allowing for rapid forensics investigations, SIEM has literally become a central nervous system for gathering Read more…
McAfee Labs researchers have seen an increase in instances of the McAfee SECURE logo being falsified as part of a “ransomware” campaign. Once a machine is infected, the malware checks to see which country the user is located in. It then displays a localized graphic containing a police logo and a message announcing that the Read more…
Tags: fake alert, fake-av, Ransomware, rogue security software
A new study called “The Digital Divide: How the Online Behavior of Teens is Getting Past Parents” (conducted by Tru Research and commissioned by McAfee) shows an alarming 70% of teens have hidden their online behavior from their parents, up from 45% in 2010. And yet half of parents live under the assumption that their teen tells them everything Read more…
Tags: cyberbullying, family protection, Internet filtering, Internet monitoring, kids online behavior, McAfee Safe Eyes, McAfee Safe Eyes Mobile, parental controls, protecting teens, teens and porn, teens online
One of the hottest topics at this year’s Internet Retailer Conference and Expo was mobile commerce and, by extension, mobile payment technology. By lumping payment methods, loyalty cards, and coupons all into one location, services like Google Wallet, Passbook and ISIS™ make it easier than ever to shop online. Customers are now able to purchase Read more…
Tags: malware, mobile phones, mobile security
There are some things in life that require a “professional” to get the job done properly. You wouldn’t let your cousin Larry who’s a landscaper reset a broken bone in your hand right? You can certainly go to a hardware store and buy all the wood to build a deck, but just because you know Read more…
Tags: anti-virus, antivirus, backup data, computer setup, internet security, Mac security, McAfee, optimize PC, pc security, PC setup, recover files, smartphone security, software installation, tablet security, tech services, tech support, transfer data, troubleshoot PC, Virus protection
I’ve travelled quite a bit around the EMEA theatre over the last few weeks. My first destination was Istanbul with a very high level enterprise class event in partnership with IDC at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). We had an exceptional private visit to the retrospective “Fifty years of modern walls” by the well-known Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Network Security
This past weekend, various postgraduate students in France ended their academic year by making final modifications in their theses. On Sunday, I assisted some of them. While browsing the Internet for some last-minute data, they suffered the fright of their lives: the sudden closing of their Microsoft Word software–without prompting to save their data–no more Read more…
Tags: fake alert, fake-av, Ransomware, rogue antivirus
In my previous blog I discussed the findings of a McAfee study that revealed India ranking 10th among least protected PC users globally. This means many of us are pretty careless or might I say clueless, when it comes to computer and smartphone protection. Why is this so? I think it stems from a lack Read more…
Tags: McAfee Global Unprotected Rates Study, pc protection, security software
NSS Labs recently released their individual test results for McAfee’s 10 Gbps and 80 Gbps Network IPS solutions and again this year McAfee achieved some new highs, including doubling the throughput of the nearest competitor. Each year NSS Labs publishes performance, protection, and value findings for the major Network IPS vendors in individual reports called Read more…
Tags: IPS, Network Security, NSS Labs