Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network Security Pat Calhoun is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for McAfee’s Network Security business, which includes Network IPS & NAC, Enterprise Firewall, Web Protection, Email, DLP and Identity Management, and Services Gateway products. Calhoun leads the engineering, marketing, and sales functions that drive worldwide growth for this area of the business. Calhoun was most recently at Cisco where he led the Secure Network Services business unit, and was responsible for the strategic direction and market success across a broad portfolio of products generating more than $1 billion in revenue. Also while at Cisco, he served as Chief Technology Officer for Wireless Networking and Access Network & Services. Prior to Cisco, Pat held various Chief Technology Officer and senior engineering roles at US Robotics, Sun Microsystems, and Airespace, Inc. where he was a co-founder before an acquisition by Cisco. Calhoun studied Computer Science at Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology.
Some days you just feel lucky. This is one of those days. Since I’ve been with McAfee, I’ve had the privilege of being part of some of the most innovative and exciting milestones in online security – and today’s news is icing on the cake. I am excited and honored to share that McAfee has Read more…
Tags: firewall, Network Security
If you’re a security professional like me, you are likely quite sensitive to the reports around the number of data breaches impacting businesses today. To confirm that we are developing solutions to address the needs of businesses and the concerns of IT professionals, McAfee commissioned a survey with industry analyst Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). ESG Read more…
Tags: cloud, Identity Management, Network Security, password security
There is no feeling like winning – winning when you’ve really worked hard for something that is meaningful. We love to win races, and games, and awards. When I was in school, I also equated good test scores with winning. This familiar feeling came rushing back to me last week when my team presented the Read more…
My nervous energy gave way to excitement as I took the stage on the eve of RSA on Monday night. I was about to spend the next hour sharing our innovative comprehensive malware protection (CMP) strategy and how our latest product enhancements are contributing to a more connected, holistic anti-malware security effort – an approach Read more…
Tags: Comprehensive Malware Protection, malware, Network Security, Network Security Platform, RSA, RSAC
Last week, as I was preparing for the RSA Security Conference, the McAfee Labs Threats Report was published. Although preoccupied with my product launch presentation, I realize the information in the report is worth the break because it adds credence to my work-in-progress presentation on our new Comprehensive Malware Protection (CMP) strategy. CMP is essentially Read more…
Tags: Autorun, CMP, Comprehensive Malware Protection, malware, McAfee Labs, Network Access, Network Security, Rootkits
“More DDoS Attacks on the Way?” I cringe when I see a headline like this. And this is just one in hundreds that have been posted since mid-September around a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by hacktivists targeting major banks. The attacks are becoming more and more disabling as botnet delivery methods Read more…
Tags: IPS
I talk about the people behind the products all the time because, in my opinion, the teams here at McAfee are unequivocally the best. But, that’s just my opinion. Until a colleague recently shared an article with me that confirmed my opinion – how I see my peers, product development folks, and everyone who supports Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, email security, IT Security, McAfee, McAfee Email Protection Suite, McAfee Network Security, Network Security, SC Magazine
McAfee Labs researchers recently published its 2013 Threat Predictions Report which had some very intriguing observations about what the bad guys are planning for the next year. While I found the observations to be critical to my team’s development work, I had one observation of my own: I think people are starting to pay a Read more…
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Proactive and preemptive. That’s the caliber of protection we are working toward integrating into all of our network security products. Because without proactive and preemptive protection, online security will never be completely secure. Thankfully for all of us, McAfee Labs knows this is the key too. That’s why, every year McAfee Labs publishes its Threat Read more…
Tags: 2013 predictions, and Data Loss Prevention, Anonymous, content security, cyberthreats, DLP, Email Protection, firewall, global threat intelligence, government networks, hacktivists, IT Security, McAfee, McAfee Labs, McAfee Network Security, Network IPS, Network Security, security, Threats Predictictions, web protection
When you spend your days talking about network security to just about anyone who will listen, you learn a lot about what keeps them up at night. The key security and IT decision-makers I’m lucky to speak with really bring to life the trends that are uncovered every quarter in the McAfee Labs Threats Report. Read more…
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