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This week, CRN pitted McAfee and Symantec head-to-head, evaluating both leading enterprise protection vendors for malware and spyware protection, intrusion prevention, channel profitability and more. The result? While Symantec continues to have a strong portfolio, McAfee came out on top for its central policy management through ePolicy Orchestrator, innovation with hardware-based security technologies, and its Read more…
Tags: endpoint, McAfee Channel, McAfee ePO
Support for Windows XP SP3 will officially end April 8, 2014, meaning users have less than a year to choose which operating system to go with next. For many, the motivation to move off XP to a new operating system hasn’t been very compelling – while Windows 7 may be a reasonable option, Vista wasn’t Read more…
Tags: Endpoint Protection, endpoint suites, hips, Java Vulnerability, McAfee Application Control, Whitelisting, Windows 8, Zero-Day
This past April (4/19 to 4/21) I had the great pleasure and experience of joining the Red Team at 9th NCCDC competition. It was actually my 2nd year on the Red Team and 4th year to attend in total (I judged in 2010 and 2011). McAfee is actually a perpetual Read more…
Tags: anti-virus, critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, Data Protection, global threat intelligence, internet security, labs, malware, McAfee, McAfee Labs, NCCDC, Network Security, Red Team, Risk and Compliance, security
If you haven’t heard much about McAfee’s fast and smart SIEM, now is the right time to take a look at what the experts are saying. After performing a hands-on review of 12 SIEM products, SC Magazine recently rated McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) as the SIEM “Best Buy,” with five stars in every category. Read more…
Tags: enterprise, security information and event management, SIEM
Like any industry, healthcare continues to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Still, it’s an industry that must also take precautions in order to maintain the privacy and security of health information. Analytics is a growing trend to measure improvements in healthcare, and a recent survey reported that 56.4% are now considering analytics to comply with Read more…
Tags: cloud security, Cloud Single Sign-On, Healthcare, IaaS, Identity, Security Connected
It’s a signal of a changing market when analysts and those reporting on key metrics utilize different definitions. Have you read the news of the death of the PC? How should one define a personal computer? I personally compute with the following systems: a personal laptop, a corporate-owned Ultrabook, a tablet, a smartphone and, occasionally, Read more…
Tags: byod, Datacenter Security, endpoint
At RSA Conference in late February, McAfee announced the acquisition of sophisticated sandboxing technology and 38 product enhancements that together extend McAfee’s lead in protection against malware. During our pre-RSA press and analyst event, McAfee senior vice president Pat Calhoun also discussed at length an idea we call “comprehensive malware protection,” which includes five foundational Read more…
Tags: Advanced Threat Defense, antimalware, CMP, Comprehensive Malware Protection, malware, Network Security, RSA
There is little doubt that with an unabated growth in cyber attacks, there is an accompanying need for more educated individuals to handle cyber security. Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense announced they plan to add more than 4,000 employees to the department’s Cyber Command arm in response to an “increasing threat of cyber attack Read more…
Tags: #SecChat, cyber education
Today’s leading security experts believe the next catastrophic electrical failure may have more to do with Father Time than Mother Nature. Why? During recent decades, the focus of energy innovation has been to modernize energy distribution and make it safer, cleaner, more efficient, less costly, and open to more alternative forms of production—all viable goals. Read more…
Tags: Embedded Security, Intelligent Systems Framework, Internet of Everything, Internet of Things, IoE, IoT, ISF, M2M
Risk and the Internet of Things must not be left unmanaged. It is a real threat, and the consequences can certainly be severe. Fortunately, work is underway in the area of managing risk for this growing dynamic; I call it “RIOT Control” as a concise way to explain the complex topic of information security for Read more…
Tags: Embedded Security, Intelligent Systems Framework, Internet of Everything, Internet of Things, IoE, IoT, ISF, M2M
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