Network Security

Covering everything from viruses to firewalls, this blog is a must-read for network administrators. Follow along as McAfee experts examine the latest threat reports and create a plan of resolution, often including informative diagrams that outline the process of infection.

Get Your Arms Around Big Security Data

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: enterprise, enterprise security, ePolicy Orchestrator, global threat intelligence, GTI, McAfee Risk Advisor, SIEM

McAfee Webinar 5/22: Strategic Directions for Network Security

As networks grow more complex, the process of securing and managing endpoints, applications, and confidential information has become more challenging than ever before. Last year saw an onslaught of financially and politically motivated breaches, and while the sophistication and persistence of attacks is moving at warp speed, most organizations are still using outdated security techniques Read more…

Tags: Compliance, Network Security, Webinar

McAfee Wins Best of Interop for Security

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…

McAfee Network Security Doubles Performance of Existing IPS Solutions

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

Why Integrity Matters: A Silicon to Software Model to Accelerate Cloud Computing

The advantages of cloud computing – new levels of cost efficiency, rapid deployment and self-service are much talked about. Yet, while cloud computing remains a top executive priority, security factors are inhibiting broadscale adoption. Very recent Intel Peer Research on cloud computing “What’s Holding Back the Cloud” revealed that 56% of IT professionals are concerned Read more…

Tags: Cloud computing, Virtualization

McAfee at Interop 2012

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

Social Networking and the Security Inflection Point

“A Strategic Inflection Point is that which causes you to make a fundamental change in business strategy. Nothing less is sufficient.”  This quote came from Andy Grove, Intel Co-founder and former CEO.  And, while he said this at an annual meeting in 1998, his philopsophy is timeless.  In my opinion, social networking is at the Read more…

Tags: authentication, Cloud computing, cloud security, facebook, identity protection, linkedin, McAfee Cloud Security Platform, secure cloud computing, social media, social networking, social networks, twitter

Don’t Let Your Data Center Security Get Voted Off the Island

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

A Firewall is not an IPS – Even if it is Next Generation

At my core, I’m a technologist.  So, sometimes when I hear certain marketing buzz words, I cringe.  But there is one term that Gartner analysts have coined that actually makes sense in a world of technology that is changing so quickly and profoundly that simple version numbers cannot capture the advancements.  The term is “Next Read more…

Tags: firewall, Garter, IPS, McAfee Firewall Enterprise, McAfee Network Security Platform, Network Security, Next Generation IPS, next-gen IPS

RDP+RCE=Bad News (MS12-020)

See March 15 and 16 updates at the end of this blog. —————————————————-   The March Security Bulletin release from Microsoft was relatively light in volume. Out of the six bulletins released, only one was rated as Critical. And for good reason. MS12-020 includes CVE-2012-0002. This flaw is specific to the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) present on Read more…

Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, enterprise, global threat intelligence, labs, malware, McAfee Labs, Microsoft Security Bulletin, MS12-020, Network Security, Risk and Compliance