If your customer’s network were an exclusive nightclub, then McAfee Application Control would be the larger-than-life security person at the door with the clipboard keeping those not on the list from entering. Application Control is actually a powerful security solution with a centrally managed list of applications that it allows onto the network. In this Read more…
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Throughout history, guard dogs, canons, moats, and drawbridges have kept intruders out of homes and businesses. These preventative measures merely block off entrances, offer little, if anything, in the way of proactively preventing threats, and don’t let you make adjustments on the fly. Today’s businesses face a similar predicament. Maybe there aren’t any moats or Read more…
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Read the news on any given day and you’ll see a constant barrage of headlines detailing banks, gaming companies, and even news organizations being hacked by cyber criminals. These criminals can steal credentials, personal employee or customer information, and even intellectual property. Customers want to make news headlines – but not as the victim of Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, DeepSAFE, Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Security, McAfee Deep Defender, Real-Time for ePO
Everyone loves a good game and the thrill of competing to win. Competition helps inspire two teams to push further and the fans to cheer harder. In business, as in the case of McAfee and Symantec, our rivalry means we create better products, push to stay on top, and help our partners do the same. Read more…
Tags: cyberattacks, Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Security, ePolicy Orchestrator, Gavin Struthers, McAfee Channel, McAfee Channel Partner
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
Late last week, reports began to surface that the Israeli police (along with other regional law enforcement) were targeted by a malware attack. The entry vector was described as a phishing campaign sent from Benny Gantz (head of the Israeli Defense Forces). Initially, details and indicators around the malware were beyond sparse. Aside from the FROM: address, Read more…
Tags: antivirus, Cyber Security Mom, Endpoint Protection, global threat intelligence, internet security, Israel, labs, malware, McAfee Labs, Network Security, phishing, security, spam, ValidEdge, web protection, XtremeRAT
McAfee ePO Deep Command is one of the best examples of how McAfee and Intel are working together to develop technology and solutions combining the power of hardware with the flexibility of software. ePO Deep Command allows IT security administrators to take the features available in Intel’s vPro and deploy them into the enterprise to improve security Read more…
Tags: Endpoint Protection, IDF 2012
Let’s face it, threats have gotten much more complex; like complex mechanisms they use multiple, consecutive methods to attack. At McAfee, our research teams continually analyze the threat landscape, and define threats in terms of their attack mechanisms, which consistently fall into four categories. First malware needs a way to come in contact with unsuspecting Read more…
Tags: Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Security, security, security attacks, security threats
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…
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In late 2011, the FBI released documents and data focusing on “Operation Ghost Click.” This malicious operation, leveraging a variety of DNSChanger-type malware, was defined by the FBI as an “international cyber ring that infected millions of computers.” Associated malware samples and events can be traced back several years, and multiple platforms were targeted. To this day many remain Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Endpoint Protection, enterprise, global threat intelligence, malware, McAfee, Risk and Compliance
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