I read a somewhat peculiar but interesting article yesterday about a creative way to steal Legos by bypassing traditional security systems. Here at McAfee, we’re always thinking about ways to better protect your data and critical assets, and this story reminded me of another (legal) Lego® project: a Lego representation of our Security Connected Ecosystem. Read more…
Tags: Legos, Network Security, Security Connected
As networks grow more complex, the process of securing and managing endpoints, applications, and confidential information has become more challenging than ever before. Last year saw an onslaught of financially and politically motivated breaches, and while the sophistication and persistence of attacks is moving at warp speed, most organizations are still using outdated security techniques Read more…
Tags: Compliance, Network Security, Webinar
As discussed during our Q2 global Town Hall on May 3, (on-demand replay) strengthening partner relevance underpins everything we are doing. From our leadership with Intel to transform the security market with innovative technology, like DeepDefender to our continuous commitment to drive channel partner profitability with the industry’s richest deal registration program, Enhanced Deal Registration. Read more…
Tags: Accredited Channel Engineer, ACE, Change Control, Channels Town Hall, database security, DeepDefender, Enhanced Deal Registration, Gavin Struthers, McAfee Application Control, Mike Decesare, Mike Fey, Network Security, Partner Summit, SIEM, SMB, SMB Extravaganza, Virtual Sales Kickoff 2012
In modern high-density server environments, high switching and routing capacities are an absolute necessity. But while consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing have been driving up network performance for years, very few security solutions have been built to meet these faster networks. This has led to tough decisions between security and performance, not to mention the Read more…
Tags: Cloud computing, consolidation, Network Security, Virtualization
This week, our McAfee team is gearing up to attend Interop 2012, May 8-10 in Las Vegas! If you’re at the show, stop by our booth #421 where VP of Network Security Greg Brown and myself will be performing product demos and presentations throughout each day on the McAfee Network Security Platform, Enterprise Security Manager Read more…
Tags: Interop, Network Security, Virtualization
As more and more businesses move towards virtualization, physical data centers are going the way of the Buffalo. Once a data center has been virtualized, an integral part of the network is moved from the physical island of computing resources into the virtualization software. Inspecting traffic is more challenging when it is self contained in Read more…
Tags: cloud security, data center, Network Security, Virtualization
At my core, I’m a technologist. So, sometimes when I hear certain marketing buzz words, I cringe. But there is one term that Gartner analysts have coined that actually makes sense in a world of technology that is changing so quickly and profoundly that simple version numbers cannot capture the advancements. The term is “Next Read more…
Tags: firewall, Garter, IPS, McAfee Firewall Enterprise, McAfee Network Security Platform, Network Security, Next Generation IPS, next-gen IPS
You have not heard from me for a while. And unfortunately, there was a good reason for that. I broke my shoulder by skiing. It was in fact a stupid accident but that’s what most accidents are stupid aren’t they? So the last couple of weeks were no big fun for me. But I must Read more…
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…
Tags: Cyber Security Mom, Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, enterprise, global threat intelligence, labs, malware, McAfee Labs, Microsoft Security Bulletin, MS12-020, Network Security, Risk and Compliance
Recently I blogged about some exploit packs. In that post I showed a table that had 10 common malware kits. I listed the vulnerabilities used, referenced by their Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) names. There were 45 vulnerabilities in the table. From the data, this idea was taken up by Mila Parkour via her Contagio Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, data breach, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, global threat intelligence, identity theft, malware, Network Security, social networking
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