There is little doubt that with an unabated growth in cyber attacks, there is an accompanying need for more educated individuals to handle cyber security. Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense announced they plan to add more than 4,000 employees to the department’s Cyber Command arm in response to an “increasing threat of cyber attack Read more…
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Predicting what malware will look like five years from now requires more than a crystal ball. In order to fully understand future threats and challenges, you need a finger on the broader pulse of technological innovation. This month during #SecChat, we want to hear from you – the security professionals and experts in the field Read more…
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Last month, McAfee Labs released its 2013 threat predictions report, McAfee’s annual attempt to predict the course of our industry in the coming year. Our researchers expect that with the rise of more advanced mobile devices, smartphones and tablets will become an even larger focus for cybercriminals. In addition, Labs predicts the hacktivist group Anonymous Read more…
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In my last blog post, I described a few new trends in data breaches uncovered in McAfee Labs’ Q3 Threats Report. During this month’s #SecChat, I’d like to open the database security conversation to the wider security community. From deployment errors and poor configuration to bad apps, vendor vulnerabilities, and more, database admins have their Read more…
The premise of our October #SecChat discussion was a concept that, without fail, rears its head in every Twitter chat we host. The idea is that no matter how sophisticated security technology becomes, users will always be the weakest link in an organization’s security program. Given this, we wanted to know what you, the security Read more…
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Often the weakest link in security is not technology, but the people who use it. All it takes is one employee to undermine even the most sophisticated security measures, but there are ways that IT security teams can minimize this risk. Thursday, 10/11 at 11am PT, join Pat Calhoun, SVP & GM, McAfee Network Security Read more…
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As we kicked off our recent #SecChat on the future of network security, our first question was one of challenges: what are the biggest challenges that netsec professionals see today that weren’t an issue five years ago? Not surprisingly, two key challenges that our participants cited were cloud integration and information leakage through social media. Read more…
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Update: To accomodate participants attending BlackHat, DefCon and BSides Las Vegas, our Network Security #SecChat has been rescheduled to Thursday, 8/2 at 11am PT. Trends in BYOD, embedded devices, virtualization and cloud computing have all created new security challenges for organizations of all sizes. And while the future of network security in the face Read more…
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We kicked off our June #SecChat discussion by asking what people had to say about strategies for SIEM implementation. The conversation got off to a rolling start as @armorguy pointed out that implementing a SIEM when underlying processes are immature is bound to be unsuccessful, and the #SIEM_Fail hashtag took flight. The conversation quickly shifted Read more…
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