Federal agencies and other government offices are just as vulnerable to cybercrime as private companies. Learn security best practices for your organization from McAfee experts, who analyze recent legislation and events to create solutions that protect your data.
The New Year is already in full swing and as always, we at McAfee are working hard to anticipate and prepare our customers for potential threats. The year 2010 had many major cybersecurity incidents, including Operation Aurora and the Stuxnet virus, showing the sophisticated ways in which dangerous people seek to exploit information systems. These incidents Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Data Protection, Dave DeWalt, enterprise, government, Operation Aurora, Public Sector, Stuxnet, wikileaks
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Camille Tuuti of ExecutiveBiz to discuss my role as director of Federal Business Development at McAfee, as well as what we at McAfee see as emerging trends and threats. Below are a few highlights from our conversation, which appears in the latest Executive Profile feature: ExecutiveBiz: Read more…
Tags: Public Sector
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) set a November 15, 2010 deadline for all federal agencies to begin submitting FISMA reports via Cyberscope, according to an April 21 memo. I recently had the chance to speak with Washington Times and Government Security News about the McAfee sponsored study FISMA’s Facelift: In the eye of Read more…
Tags: enterprise, Public Sector
Recently McAfee had the opportunity to participate in the LandWarNet Conference, the largest Army technology event of the year, hosted by AFCEA. General Keith Alexander, Commander of U.S. CYBERCOMMAND gave the opening keynote where he described the need for greater situational awareness and response at network speed. LandWarNet also was a tremendous opportunity for McAfee Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Dave DeWalt, government, Public Sector
The number of cybersecurity incidents reported by federal agencies is rising dramatically, according to data from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team at the Department of Homeland Security. In a single year, the number of cybersecurity incidents increased by more than 40 percent. In McAfee’s own 2009 report, “Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information,” an international Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, government, Public Sector
One of the things I enjoy most about my job is the opportunity to collaborate with industry and public sector colleagues on issues that affect us all. This type of collaboration between industry and government is something of utmost important at McAfee, and I take pleasure in being a part of the process when I Read more…
Tags: government, Public Sector, Risk and Compliance, Telecommunications
Here at McAfee, we’ve always made an effort to work side by side with legislators on Capitol Hill to support Congress’s efforts to safeguard the nation’s cyber networks from attack. Network security has always been a major priority of our company, and we are pleased to see that Congress is making it a priority as Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, government
Back in October, I wrote about the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)’s expected guidelines for the use of USB thumb drives following the ban of the removable storage devices. In 2008, DoD temporarily banned the use of thumb drives and other removable storage devices because virus, worms and malware were uploaded into their network. Today, Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, Device Control, Public Sector, Risk and Compliance
By now you’ve heard about Operation Aurora, a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on corporate infrastructure of several large companies that resulted in the theft of intellectual property. My colleague, George Kurtz, wrote a post on the subject that delves deeper into the subject here. As George said, the world has changed, and everyone’s threat Read more…
Tags: George Kurtz, Public Sector
With the recent news concerning Google’s cyberattack allegations , it is clear the threat of cyber attacks continues to grow. As such, we must continue to expand our capabilities and stay ahead of the threat. Recently, I sat down with ExecutiveBiz to talk about how McAfee has been moving in this direction and how our Read more…
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