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
Earlier this month, I was very excited to learn that the McAfee Cork office was recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ in the Irish Times’ Best Workplaces Ireland 2013 list. This accolade reflects the ‘P’ of one of our EMEA 2013 core themes – PACT (People, Activity, Commitment, Teamwork). I often say that, as Read more…
Tags: Abu Dhabi, CDC, Cork, critical infrastructure, Cyber Defence, Cyber Defence Center, Cybercrime, Dubai, Financial Services, forensic, Great Place to Work; Best Workplaces Ireland 2013, Ireland, McAfee, Oil & Gas, PACT, People, Security Connected, United Arab Emirates
Late Friday night, the hacktivist group Anonymous took control of the U.S. Sentencing Commission website in a new campaign called “Operation Last Resort.” The website was still experiencing downtime as of 11am PT this morning, and according to a ZDNet report, the website was re-hacked on Sunday afternoon and turned into a playable video game Read more…
Tags: Aaron Swartz, Anonymous, critical infrastructure, Federal Cybersecurity, government, Hacktivism, Operation Last Resort
The destruction Superstorm Sandy wreaked on the infrastructure of the U.S.’s most populous metropolitan area has brought the threat of cybersecurity attacks on industrial control systems to the fore. Two days after the storm, Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano warned that “If you think that a critical systems attack that takes down a Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, Cyberattack, SCADA
A team from the Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s Department of Community and Economic Development recently joined us in Silicon Valley at McAfee HQ to discuss information security. Overall, state governments are taking a more proactive stance as is relates to information security; this is a welcome and much needed trend. One of topics we discussed Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, Public Sector, security awareness
Welcome to part three of our critical infrastructure podcast series with Raj Samani, the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for McAfee EMEA. Raj previously worked as the Chief Information Security Officer for a large public sector organization in the U.K., and during this podcast, we’ll be discussing critical infrastructure and the Internet: why connect Read more…
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In my research, healthcare providers have rated their use and desire to use the cloud as relatively low compared to other industries. Since the HITECH Act of 2009 encouraged the adoption of electronic health records, many providers have been looking for a cost-effective way to support the infrastructure needed for electronic records. And while the Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, Electronic Medical Records, Healthcare, Healthcare Security
Utility substations are sensitive assets within critical infrastructure. They can be compromised just like traditional cyber assets, and the impact can be a loss of essential services related to electricity, water, supply chains and the like. McAfee offers unique controls to protect utility substations. By watching this video demonstration of a successful attack and successful Read more…
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The ICS-CERT recently released the “ICS-CERT Incident Response Summary Report,” which quantifies known industrial control system cyber security incidents from 2009 to 2011. The report offers a very useful summary of threats, and provides some eye-opening metrics. One finding across all reported incidents was that “an organization’s technology can result in cyber security gaps,” which Read more…
Tags: critical infrastructure, energy
Welcome to part two of our critical infrastructure podcast series with Raj Samani, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for McAfee EMEA. Raj previously worked at the Chief Information Security Officer for a large public sector organization in the U.K., and during this podcast, we discuss the question of accountability within critical infrastructure. If you Read more…
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