Dan Wolff is on the McAfee Endpoint Security Product team responsible for core Endpoint Security products including VirusScan Enterprise, Deep Defender, HIPS, Firewall and Host Web Filtering. He is a recognized security expert with over 12 years of security engineering, marketing and management experience.
With the onslaught of zero-day attacks, phishing, malicious web pages, rootkits, and compromised devices, businesses have their hands full when it comes to security. In addition to prevailing cyber threats, the BYOD phenomenon has continued to increase the barrage of unanswered risks. The explosion of devices that now have access to both personal and business Read more…
Tags: Comprehensive Malware Protection, Endpoint Protection, risk intelligence, Whitelisting, Zero-Day Attack
This week, CRN pitted McAfee and Symantec head-to-head, evaluating both leading enterprise protection vendors for malware and spyware protection, intrusion prevention, channel profitability and more. The result? While Symantec continues to have a strong portfolio, McAfee came out on top for its central policy management through ePolicy Orchestrator, innovation with hardware-based security technologies, and its Read more…
Tags: endpoint, McAfee Channel, McAfee ePO
Like Zeus, it appears that Operation High Roller is a banking trojan much more advanced in terms of quality, applicability to broad platforms and automation. Its ability to scale far beyond current banking malware is of great concern. So you want to know what you can do now to protect yourself? Here are some tips Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, global threat intelligence, GTI, highroller, hips, McAfee Application Control, OHR, virusscan
If my last blog on how today’s malware penetrates your systems terrified you - you’re not the only one! Now lets take a look at protection technologies and where they are effective. In phase one, effective tools are those that limit or block first contact with a victim. These include host or network based web filtering Read more…
Let’s face it, threats have gotten much more complex; like complex mechanisms they use multiple, consecutive methods to attack. At McAfee, our research teams continually analyze the threat landscape, and define threats in terms of their attack mechanisms, which consistently fall into four categories. First malware needs a way to come in contact with unsuspecting Read more…
Tags: Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Security, security, security attacks, security threats
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