McAfee Labs has just released the McAfee Threats Report, First Quarter 2012, and I’m proud of it. I am cribbing from the intro to this quarter’s report, but it kinda says it all: “The Greek philosopher Heraclitus, known for his doctrine of change as central to the universe, once wrote that ‘everything flows, nothing Read more…
Tags: Android, antivirus, Consumer, counter identity theft, critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, global threat intelligence, Identity thieves and cybercriminals, mobile security, phishing, social networking, spam
I just finished up a trip to Panama City, Panama. I’ve been to several countries in Central America like Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, but this was my first trip to Panama. In countries like Panama, the general rule of thumb is that business is focused across three primary verticals: financial services, telecommunications, and Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, epo, global threat intelligence, SIEM
Applying cyber security measures to industrial control systems represents some unique challenges. How do you obtain situational awareness across zones while enforcing the maximum possible level of network separation? How do you protect against malware while limiting the application of patches and updates to real-time systems? If a system is compromised in some way, how Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, energy, substation
As we kicked off our March #SecChat on critical infrastructure, the first question on many participants’ minds was one of definition: What makes an infrastructure critical in the first place? There seem to be countless general definitions for critical infrastructure floating around, and quite a few short lists of which infrastructures should be included. None Read more…
Tags: #SecChat, critical infrastructure
Today’s discussion, and the final installment of our podcast series on critical infrastructure with Eric Knapp, will be part 2 of Situational Awareness. If you haven’t already listened to part 1, you might want to take some time and listen to part one first, so you have a little bit of the background information. Welcome Read more…
If you’ve been following along in the Security Connected blog lately, I’m sure you’ve noticed my series of podcast interviews on critical infrastructure with Eric Knapp, Director of Critical Infrastructure Markets in McAfee’s Global Business Development Group. Building upon this theme, I would like to invite you, the security community, to discuss this topic openly Read more…
Tags: #SecChat, critical infrastructure
As a part of our continuing series on critical infrastructure with Eric Knapp, Director of Critical Infrastructure Markets in McAfee’s Global Business Development Group, we’re changing course this week to discuss Situational Awareness. This is Part 1 of a 2-part series, and you can view the full podcast recording on YouTube, and at the end Read more…
Welcome once again to our podcast series on critical infrastructure with Eric Knapp, Director of Critical Infrastructure Markets in McAfee’s Global Business Development Group. Today’s discussion will be part two of Compensating Measures, AKA Network Perimeter Security. If you haven’t already listened to Part 1, you might want to take a few minutes and go Read more…
Welcome to another installment of our podcast series on critical infrastructure with Eric Knapp, Director of Critical Infrastructure Markets in McAfee’s Global Business Development Group. If this is your first time joining us, be sure and head back in the blog and read or listen to our two previous discussions on host security for SCADA Read more…
Today’s discussion is part two in our series on critical infrastructure with Eric Knapp, Director of Critical Infrastructure Markets in McAfee’s global business development group. If you haven’t yet listened to or read part one, you might want to stop at this point and view that podcast here, or read the full transcript here in Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, SCADA
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