Senior Manager
Datacenter Solution Marketing
Based in Santa Clara, Calif. Evelyn is responsible for developing holistic security solutions for next-generation data centers. She is a strong proponent of building automated, repeatable processes that enable organizations to sustain compliance while optimizing security posture and reducing costs. To this end, she pioneered the development of tools, such as McAfee's Compliance Mapping Matrix that cross maps various regulations, standards, and frameworks to McAfee solutions. Evelyn is a passionate security professional with over ten years in the IT security industry. She enjoys engaging with industry analysts and with current and potential McAfee customers and partners to discuss industry trends and how McAfee solutions can be best implemented to meet the needs of next-generation data centers. Evelyn holds a Bachelors of Arts Degree with Honors in Music from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
We kicked off our April #SecChat discussion by asking what security factors our community believed were inhibiting organizations from adopting cloud for the data center. The topic of control was quickly touched upon, as @LabNuke pointed out that access control is a key concern, and @KentMcGovern mentioned a loss of direct control over the environment. Read more…
Tags: #SecChat, cloud security, data center
Recent trends show that organizations large and small are flocking to the cloud in efforts to cut overhead costs and boost the energy efficiency of their data centers. According to a recent AMI-Partners study, more than 30% of SMBs are currently using the cloud to store data, a number that is only expected to grow Read more…
Tags: #SecChat, cloud, data center
The steady stream of high-profile data breaches has placed data center security in the spotlight. In the 2011 Data Center Security Survey conducted by Gabriel Consulting, they asked data center personnel a wide range of questions about how their organizations deal with IT and data center security. Respondents assessed their organizations’ current security approaches and Read more…
Last week, we hosted our monthly Twitter #SecChat on data center security, focusing on questions of physical and virtual security in the face of a modern environment that is going through rapid transformation. While the industry is being driven by trends in virtualization, cloud computing and more, data centers are now not only called upon Read more…
Tags: #SecChat, data center security
These are questions that Intel’s Billy Cox and McAfee’s Brian Foster will address in an upcoming session — “Do I need a private cloud?” — at the McAfee FOCUS Security Conference, taking place Oct. 18-20 in Las Vegas. This post on Intel.com gets users down the path of questions that they should ask as they explore new infrastructure Read more…
Tags: cloud security, Focus11
The federal government plans to shut 40 percent of its computer centers over the next four years to reduce its hefty technology budget and modernize the way it uses computers to manage data and provide services to citizens. It is a part of the strategy outlined in a memo from March last year to Federal agencies, which Read more…
Tags: cloud, consolidation, data center, data center security, enterprise, security optimization
When it comes to data center operations, IT departments are concerned with upgrading legacy architectures to enable business agility and ensure maximum uptime. However, much too often, security is not a key consideration in the design phase of a data center. Here at McAfee, the Data Center team has been blogging regularly about the importance Read more…
Tags: breach, data, data center, security
In my blog last week, I outlined my perspective as a consumer impacted by a website outage. As a follow-up, I want to share a recent opportunity I had to speak with small organizations that consume cloud computing services via service providers to support their businesses and who have been impacted by recent outages. Some Read more…
Tags: Cloud computing, data, data center, outages
While 99.9% network and server uptime has long been an established standard in data centers, the consumer experience so often fails to live up to that, and I as I was reminded of again this weekend. Unplanned network or server changes or vulnerabilities are often the cause of website outages. And, as the website Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, data breach, data center, data center security, Data Protection, enterprise, Risk and Compliance
At the Uptime Conference this year I was struck by the absence of security as a process in the many innovative technological innovations that are expected to transform data centers. Surely recent events have taught us that a secure and robust datacenter is needed to ensure both business continuity and business agility.
Tags: cloud security, data center, data center security, enterprise, Mid-Market, Network Security, network security server security
Posts by Evelyn de Souza