Ed Metcalf is director of product marketing for McAfee. In this role, he is responsible for product marketing for the company’s flagship product, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), overseeing messaging and positioning, market development and helping to guide the product roadmap through close interaction with customers and partners. Recently, Ed has been responsible for building the go-to-market plans for the McAfee/Intel technology and solutions including McAfee DeepSAFE, Deep Defender and ePO Deep Command. He has over 18 years’ experience in product marketing, product management and sales management. He is a recognized security expert with over 15 years of experience in the security industry.
You are not scanning your enterprise for malware often enough. Nobody is. Informal polls of customers and security professionals show that “Wednesday at noon” is the typical schedule for a full virus scan. The explanation for this timing boils down to “people are usually in the office on Wednesday and eating lunch around noon.” Some Read more…
Tags: ePO Deep Command, vPro
You have deployed every security solution imaginable. You leverage defense in depth. You update and patch regularly. You have built a fortress with a moat. But deep below all your tools is a rootkit saying “everything is ok” while secretly monitoring everything the system is doing and silently extracting data. How can this happen? What Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, DeepSAFE, Endpoint Protection, intel, Rookits
This month at Intel’s Developer Forum in San Francisco, McAfee unveiled DeepSAFE with Intel, a new security technology that sits beyond the operating system, close to the silicon, and allows for a unique vantage point in the computing stack to better protect systems. During our next #SecChat this Thursday, we’re opening up the discussion around Read more…
Tags: #SecChat, DeepSAFE, enterprise security, social media
Snow leopards are endangered species that need to be protected from extinction. But it’s not only the animal that needs protecting. Apple’s latest release of Mac OS X 10.6, named Snow Leopard, claims to be the “world’s most advanced operating system.” McAfee provides the protection users and business need to ensure this new operating system Read more…
Tags: Apple, Consumer, Cybercrime, Endpoint Protection, malware
In case you haven’t heard, the economy is in a slump and everyone is looking for ways to maximize their investments. Customers tell me they need security technology that allows them to conduct business (and not restrict them), while giving them efficiency and visibility. I’m excited to announce a major new release of ePolicy Orchestrator Read more…
Tags: Endpoint Protection
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