On May 5, 2013 we announced our intent to acquire Stonesoft, a leading innovator in firewall technology. In fact, in 2013 Gartner positioned Stonesoft in the “Visionary” quadrant of its Network Security Firewall Magic Quadrant. We are very excited, as evident by Pat Calhoun’s latest blog, about what this potentially means to our network security Read more…
Tags: Email & Web Security, firewall, Gartner, intrusion prevention, IPS, Network Security, pat calhoun, Stonesoft, web security
Before the advent of intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS), firewalls served as the primary technology to help organizations block unwanted traffic. With application-layer protocols lacking detection, attackers were able to disguise malicious traffic and remotely exploit applications. To stop these kinds of attacks, the security industry created IPS/IDS technologies to detect Read more…
Tags: Deep parsing, encoding, evasion, IDS, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, IPS, Obfuscation
As I write this, it is one week from Thanksgiving, here in the United States. This is our kick-off to the holiday season, which got me thinking about our year-end and the realization that while there may be 36 shopping days till Christmas there are far fewer selling days before we reach our Dec. 28, Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, Commercial and Enterprise Deal Registration, Endpoint Protection, Endpoint security suite upgrade, Enhanced Deal Registration, gold software support, I Series, intrusion prevention, M Series, mcafee total protection, McAfee Vulnerability Manager, Risk Management, SMB Extravaganza, thurber
This is a new weekly blog post focused on providing our channel partners with easy access to key news and information. The blog includes a collection of short statements/thoughts designed to make it easy to read, informative and if lucky, occasionally humorous. It’s a mutual respect thing, but glad to see The VAR Guy likes Read more…
Tags: Blackhat, channel partner, Channel Partners, CIO Insomnia Project, ePolicy Orchestrator, George Kurtz, intrusion prevention, McAfee Channel, McAfee Rewards, McAfee Security Management, The VARGuy
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