This post was updated on January 27. See end of file for update. There has been a great explosion of chatter in the last day around Anonymous’ “Operation Last Resort” (a.k.a. #OpLastResort). The entities behind the various “official” communications around this operation have a sense of humor that we must point out (especially because if Read more…
Tags: Anonymous, Barrett Brown, Data Protection, Last Resort, malware, McAfee Labs, Network Security, OpLastResort, social networking, Swartz, twitter, USSC
Late last week, reports began to surface that the Israeli police (along with other regional law enforcement) were targeted by a malware attack. The entry vector was described as a phishing campaign sent from Benny Gantz (head of the Israeli Defense Forces). Initially, details and indicators around the malware were beyond sparse. Aside from the FROM: address, Read more…
Tags: antivirus, Cyber Security Mom, Endpoint Protection, global threat intelligence, internet security, Israel, labs, malware, McAfee Labs, Network Security, phishing, security, spam, ValidEdge, web protection, XtremeRAT
As organizations evolve infrastructure models for greater business agility and cost savings, they can become mired in uncertainty. The issues of data privacy and responsibility alongside a myriad of regulations with different privacy requirements cause a great deal of concern, especially in relation to public cloud adoption. Most global organizations are dealing with 42+ standards and regulations Read more…
Tags: data center, Next Generation
The more data you have, the more insight and knowledge you possess, right? But what happens when your data stores grow so large that securing and managing them effectively is no longer in the cards? A few extra gigabytes here and terabytes there, and before you know it, you’ve got a big security data problem. Read more…
Tags: Big Data, big security data, enterprise, enterprise security, epo, ePolicy Orchestrator, ESM, global threat intelligence, GTI, McAfee Risk Advisor, NitroView, security information and event management, SIEM
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
There are many kinds of risk: operational, legal, and reputational risk. Most large enterprise IT teams are comfortable and proficient at measuring operational risk. It features in reports as minutes of downtime, incidents of endpoint reimages, number of patches installed, hours of overtime. Legal risk isn’t that hard to handle, either. IT can draw on Read more…
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
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