Worldwide Chief Technology Officer
Michael Fey is the Worldwide Chief Technology Officer for McAfee where he drives the company’s long-term strategic vision and core innovation efforts. In his role as CTO, Fey is also responsible for overseeing McAfee’s go-to-market initiatives, collaboration, and execution across McAfee’s sales, product management, development, and research teams.
Prior to his current role, Fey was Senior Vice President of Advanced Technologies and Field Engineering at McAfee, where he was responsible for overseeing vital corporate acquisitions as well as engagement with global customer executives and prospects to define, design, and implement strategic security solutions. Prior to his tenure at McAfee, he held multiple technical management positions at Opsware and Mercury Interactive.
Fey is co-author of the book entitled “Security Battleground: An Executive Field Manual” published in 2012 to provide guidance to executives who shoulder oversight responsibility for information security around critical business resources.
McAfee’s announcement last week of the planned acquisition of StoneSoft further demonstrates our commitment to the Security Connected vision of integrated security – from endpoints to the network – while providing visibility and analytics. StoneSoft is a robust enterprise-grade platform capable of immediately taking us to a leadership position within the next generation firewall market Read more…
Tags: network, Network Security, Stonesoft
Today marks the second annual McAfee Global Community Service Day where employees across the globe are volunteering their time to give a helping hand to thousands of people. Sticking true to their core values McAfee employees are making sure that their local communities are safe and secure beyond the digital world. There is no better Read more…
Tags: community service
Like many of you, I’m a parent. And as a parent, I know there’s nothing more challenging, or more important, than figuring out how to protect our children from danger. While we might wish we could just tell them what they can and can’t do, we know that’s a losing strategy. Instead, we need to Read more…
Tags: cybereducation, parenting, TED
My role at McAfee takes me around the globe to speak with customers and partners, assess different security strategies, and survey current and emerging threats facing the different regions and industries. To those ends, my team and I recently conducted an informal poll of security industry practitioners and found that while there was a positive Read more…
Tags: RSA
We previously wrote about what it means to be a security-obligated executive – how to identify threat warning signs and prep against cyber-attacks. Historically either the C-suite and the security teams haven’t spoken at all, or security teams haven’t spoken to execs in a simple enough language to be understood. At McAfee, we often educate Read more…
Tags: 3Rs, CTO, regulations, riches, ruins
Today at McAfee we released our annual predictions on the top threats for 2013. Each year we take a critical look at the online risks that have grown in both depth and breadth and make solid predictions on what trends we anticipate will pick up in the New Year. Here are a few highlights on Read more…
Tags: 2013 threat predictions, HTML5, near field communication, Rootkits
Whether they realize it or not, C-suite executives now have ownership over keeping their organizations secure. According to Gartner predictions, by 2015 as much as 25 percent of all organizations will add a new “C” to the C-suite: Chief Digital Officers. Living in the digital age, the CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, COOs and soon to come Read more…
Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting with many of our customers at FOCUS12, and addressing the audience on both the Tuesday and Wednesday keynote. We covered a wide range of subjects in our sessions, and made several announcements. We specifically looked at energy sector vulnerabilities, and announced partnership with Westinghouse to prevent network Read more…
Tags: epo, FOCUS12, Mike Fey, Security Connected
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