I hope you have all had the same great start to the year as I have had, although I must say that since the beginning of 2013 my agenda has been incredibly packed. Time flies; we are already in February and I have just returned from a trip to Moscow where great things are happening; Read more…
Tags: 2013 threat predictions, Citadel, epo, Global Threat Intellgence, GTI, intel, McAfee, Security Connected, SIEM, trojan
Everyone’s looking to shave their IT budgets, manage fewer vendors and streamline. The plethora of low cost and sometimes free AV products is an enticing option to lower the cost to secure any business. Some free antivirus programs do an acceptable job of detecting, blocking and removing certain kinds of malware, but don’t provide protection Read more…
Tags: anti-virus, antimalware, antivirus, AV, GTI, hips
I had a debate last week with one of our Systems Engineers about whether our customers needed McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) in our SIEM (Security Incident and Event Management) product if we already delivered it via our network IPS. Of course they do. If you’re not familiar with McAfee GTI, it’s our cloud-based threat Read more…
Tags: GTI, IPS, Network Security, SIEM
As discussed on our Q3 Global Channels Town Hall,(on-demand replay) we witnessed many great accomplishments in Q2, not least of which was celebrating our 25th anniversary as a company. Our relentless search for SAFE has been 25 enthralling years of keeping our partners, customers and families safe – something that I’m very proud of having Read more…
Tags: Accredited Channel Engineer, channel partner, Channel Partners, Channel Program, Gavin Struthers, global threat intelligence, GTI, McAfee Channel, McAfee managed Service Provider Program, McAfee Rewards, Profitability Stack, Security Connected, SIEM
Like Zeus, it appears that Operation High Roller is a banking trojan much more advanced in terms of quality, applicability to broad platforms and automation. Its ability to scale far beyond current banking malware is of great concern. So you want to know what you can do now to protect yourself? Here are some tips Read more…
Tags: Deep Defender, global threat intelligence, GTI, highroller, hips, McAfee Application Control, OHR, virusscan
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: Big Data, big security data, enterprise, enterprise security, epo, ePolicy Orchestrator, ESM, global threat intelligence, GTI, McAfee Risk Advisor, NitroView, security information and event management, SIEM
In my previous post in this series, I looked at security considerations when enabling Big Data for your business. In collecting, accessing and providing parallel analytics across multiple data sets, you may be inadvertently opening the door to malware or a ‘snake in the grass’. It’s possible that the data you are correlating is something Read more…
Following on from my last post where I was talking about efforts we were putting in place to stifle the use of the http://mcaf.ee secure short URL provider by spam merchants, I thought I’d share with you some interesting statistics of a recent spam attack. I pulled this pretty graph out of our Google Analytics Read more…
Tags: Consumer, GTI, mcaf.ee, Security-as-a-Service, spam, Web 2.0
Sophisticated, multi-vector attacks like Operation Aurora are now more pervasive and more difficult to detect than ever before, thanks in part to the emergence of Web 2.0 and the rapid growth of the internet. Already, in the weeks that have followed Operation Aurora, McAfee Labs has identified a number of derivative attacks based on publicly Read more…
Tags: global threat intelligence, GTI, Heuristics, Operation Aurora, Pre-detection, Whitelisting
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