Tyler Carter joined McAfee in early 2010 where he leads Product Marketing for McAfee Network Security Platform, the industry’s #1 Network IPS solution. His expertise includes: Network IPS, Network Access Control, and Network Behavior Analysis among other technologies. Prior to joining McAfee, Carter held senior marketing positions at several technology companies, including at Veritas, Symantec and Citrix Systems. Over the years he has gained in-depth expertise in a broad range of enterprise IT solution areas including: high availability, data storage systems, server and desktop virtualization, backup and recovery, and network security systems.
I’m proud to share that the McAfee Network Security Platform XC Cluster has won Best of Interop in the security category. In Q4 of 2011, we introduced 7.0, our next-generation IPS solution. What we’ve done now is built in capabilities that will allow organizations to take that same great functionality and deploy it in high-throughput Read more…
In modern high-density server environments, high switching and routing capacities are an absolute necessity. But while consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing have been driving up network performance for years, very few security solutions have been built to meet these faster networks. This has led to tough decisions between security and performance, not to mention the Read more…
Tags: Cloud computing, consolidation, Network Security, Virtualization
This week, our McAfee team is gearing up to attend Interop 2012, May 8-10 in Las Vegas! If you’re at the show, stop by our booth #421 where VP of Network Security Greg Brown and myself will be performing product demos and presentations throughout each day on the McAfee Network Security Platform, Enterprise Security Manager Read more…
Tags: Interop, Network Security, Virtualization
As more and more businesses move towards virtualization, physical data centers are going the way of the Buffalo. Once a data center has been virtualized, an integral part of the network is moved from the physical island of computing resources into the virtualization software. Inspecting traffic is more challenging when it is self contained in Read more…
Tags: cloud security, data center, Network Security, Virtualization
Some malware attacks come so quickly that by the time you react, it’s too late. That was a lesson learned the hard way by thousands of organizations last week with VBMania, otherwise known as the “Here You Have” email worm. In stark contrast to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) such as Operation Aurora, the VBMania worm Read more…
Tags: Network Security
When’s the last time you measured how well your network security was delivering on its promise? Unlike some other network infrastructure gear, it can be difficult to know if you’re getting the protection you paid for in your network IPS; sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know, right? The thousands of alerts that scroll Read more…
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