VP, CTO for McAfee EMEA
Raj is currently working as the VP, Chief Technical Officer for McAfee EMEA, having previously worked as the Chief Information Security Officer for a large public sector organisation in the UK.
He volunteers as the Cloud Security Alliance EMEA Strategy Advisor, is on the advisory councils for Infosecurity Europe, and Infosecurity Magazine. In addition, Raj was previously the Vice President for Communications in the ISSA UK Chapter, having presided over the award for Chapter communications programme of the year 2008, and 2009.. He has had numerous security papers published, and appeared on television (ITV and More4). As well as providing assistance in the 2006 RSA Wireless Security Survey and part of the consultation committee for the RIPA Bill (Part 3).
Raj is also the author of the upcoming book 'Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid'
He can be found on twitter @Raj_Samani
We broke the Internet. This was amongst the many headlines resulting from the recent disagreement between anti-spam service Spamhaus and Internet Service Provider (ISP) Cyberbunker. Whilst the claims did appear to be a little far-fetched, more than a few people became a little worried about not being able to stream the latest movies. Our dependency Read more…
Tags: anti-spam, Connected Home, Cybercrime, internet connected devices, Spamhaus
Intel and McAfee welcome European Union resolve to fight cyber threats By David Hoffman, Raj Samani and Christoph Luykx Today, the European Commission and the EU’s External Action Service (EEAS) presented its response to the growing threats presented in cyberspace by releasing a policy document (the “Communication”), outlining the longer term required actions together with Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, cybersecurity, EMEA, global threat intelligence, public policy, Public-Private partnerships
Cloud computing continues to be a hot topic. But so what if people are talking about it, who is actually adopting it? One of the questions I have been asking myself is, ‘Will cloud be adopted for critical infrastructure? And what is the security perspective on this? Naturally a blog to answer that question will Read more…
According to the United Nations there were 2.3 billion Internet users at the end of 2011, whilst this progress is significant there exists a digital divide with only one quarter of inhabitants in the developing world online. Our collective effort to bridge this digital divide is imperative to ensure that all citizens can exploit the Read more…
Tags: European teen research, McAfee Digital Divide study, online safety, raj samani, teens online safety
‘Nation-state sponsored cyber attacks’ – A powerful statement, and one that represented the majority of recent headlines in press articles about the Gauss malware. With the targeted nature of the attack, and its complexity cited as examples to support ‘Gauss-es’ of the attribution. Whilst the speculation makes for excellent media stories and fuels alcohol induced Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, APT, APTs, cyber attacks, DLP, firewall, Flame, Gauss, Information Security, IPS, McAfee Security, Night Dragon, security
There is an inevitable predictability with your email Inbox. Any newsworthy event, whether a natural disaster, major sporting event, or even malicious celebrity gossip invokes an email from an entrepreneurial individual with unscrupulous principles promising you something of value in exchange for information personal to you. Even money intended to assist victims of major natural Read more…
Tags: celebrity, McAfee Labs, mobile threats, Olympic scams, online threats, smartphone, sport, summer games, Threats
Earlier this year I was given the opportunity of presenting the concept of cloud computing to delegates from the Chemical industry. I remember when I put the title slide up, and then made the bold claim that – Cloud computing, and in particular public Cloud Service Providers should be considered for ALL sectors even those Read more…
Tags: cloud, critical infrastructure
Don’t click on the link! Simple? That’s our security awareness done, and now we can focus on the implementation of technology controls. Well not quite. This approach to user awareness formed the basis of a recent keynote presentation I did at the ITSecurity Summit in Johannesburg. In the presentation I used a well known case Read more…
Tags: phishing, social engineering
With the gift giving season behind us, it’s likely we saw the latest hot tech item get into the hands of children of all ages. Whether that item is the latest tablet device, smartphone or game console, every device can offer kids a fun and educational opportunity to interact with the latest new gadgets, but Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Family Safety, identity protection, identity protection surveillance, identity theft, mobile security, personal identity theft fraud, proactive identity surveillance, social networking
Maybe it’s just me, but I had this assumption that Cloud computing would be one of the most popular online search terms. When I found the list of top ten most searched items, I was slightly surprised to find celebrities that a) I had never heard of and b) turned out to have no involvement with Read more…
Tags: Cloud computing, cloud security, CSP
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