Follow McAfee EMEA President as he reports about the latest news and information from his travels and meetings with Europe, Middle East and Africa’s biggest companies and partners.
It is with great satisfaction that I closed Q1 in EMEA. In fact we achieved a fantastic quarter! We signed a lot of new customers. We also signed innovative new deals with our existing customers. In addition to our Enterprise customers, our Commercial segment grew significantly. I thank our customers for their trust and can Read more…
Tags: ACE certification partner, cyberthreats, enterprise, epo, s, Security Connected, SIEM
You have not heard from me for a while. And unfortunately, there was a good reason for that. I broke my shoulder by skiing. It was in fact a stupid accident but that’s what most accidents are stupid aren’t they? So the last couple of weeks were no big fun for me. But I must Read more…
First of all, as we are still in time, let me wish you all a healthy, wealthy and Happy New Year! I hope you had a nice and well deserved break after this bumpy year 2011. On my side, I enjoyed a fantastic time skiing with my family in the French Alps. Skiing was great Read more…
Tags: Cyber risks, Cybercrime, Data Protection, Global Risk 2012 report, IT Security market
Here I am back from my third trip to the US in a six week time frame. During this meeting I worked with the leadership team to finalize the 2012 McAfee planning. I must say that I am really excited. We have a very robust plan with a key focus on France, Germany, UK, The Netherlands, Nordics and Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, EMEA, Nitro Security, quarterly threat report, security management
Part of my hectic schedule across the last 2 months has been supporting and attending the McAfee Focus Conferences. The season started with a very successful Focus in Germany followed by the McAfee Corporate Flagship event in Las Vegas. FOCUS London and FOCUS Paris followed the week after Las Vegas with FOCUS Madrid ending the 2011 Read more…
Tags: EMEA, intel, McAfee, McAfee FOCUS
My two last weeks were packed and guess what, so are the next two. Before leaving for McAfee Focus Las Vegas, our annual flagship partner and customer event, I was honoured to be invited by Intel in Paris to present at their EMEA Executive Summit. And to say Paris is a fantastic location is an understatement. Read more…
Tags: EMEA, FOCUS 2011, IDF 2011, intel, McAfee FOCUS
During the last couple of weeks, I had some very interesting customer meetings with car manufacturers. I am passionate about cars so I followed the news coming out of the major car event, The 64the International Motor Show (IAA), also known as the Frankfurt Auto Show, with great interest. Almost one million people from all over Read more…
Tags: automobile, DeepSAFE, embedded, Focus11
I had a quick and exciting business start. September was extremely busy and the outlook for October looks just as busy. During these busy weeks, I had two days of team building with my leadership team. During these extremely busy weeks I enjoyed team building exercise with my leadership team. The experience was well worth Read more…
Tags: EMEA, Focus, innovation, intel
I came back to work fully energized from my summer holiday enjoying Greece and its extraordinary scenery. What occurred to me on my return was the fast pace of change and the incredible level of uncertainty and insecurity we are facing at present with the global financial crisis, strained social relations, and geopolitical changes. Security Read more…
Tags: cybersafety, EMEA, malware, Operation Shady RAT, safe
Recently I have been meeting with customers and resellers throughout Italy and Spain and it was interesting to hear that their needs from a security partner are very similar to those from the other countries I have recently visited. I have started to see strong interest in the McAfee DLP, Database Protection and Encryption technologies Read more…
Tags: Consumer, Cybercrime, EMEA, enterprise, Mid-Market, Network Security, Public Sector, Risk and Compliance
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