Content Tagged ‘McAfee Security Insights’

Redefining Virtual Desktop Security

May 12, 2010 - It’s been a hush-hush project till now! McAfee and Citrix working together redefining virtual desktop security. Brian Barney, McAfee executive vice president product operations, is presenting here with Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix about the new partnership at (continue reading...) Read more

Can SSH punch a hole in your firewall?

May 12, 2010 - In a video available here, David Strom talks about the ability to identify and control SSH traffic using the new McAfee Firewall Enterprise Version 8.  SSH is an encrypted protocol that’s been used for years by network administrators to (continue reading...) Read more

McAfee and Citrix – Securing Virtualized Environments

May 12, 2010 - Customers consolidating servers to virtual machines are looking for a more cost effective application environment – to maximize CPU and memory utilization without sacrificing application performance or data security. While the need for security in a virtual environment is no (continue reading...) Read more

Are We Missing the Point?

May 7, 2010 - Recently there has been a lot of talk about nuclear weapons, terrorism and peace treaties.  At the end of the day, the question remains how we protect a country and its citizens from attack?  If that is really the purpose (continue reading...) Read more

New China Encryption Rules Won’t Pose Headaches for U.S Vendors?

May 5, 2010 - This week, Jaikumar Vijayan at Computerworld posted an interesting article about new Chinese rules designed to control the import of non-domestic encryption products. Many people have infered that these new rules will mean products imported into China will be (continue reading...) Read more

Social networkers could use a spoonful of “cybermanners”

May 5, 2010 - Recently, I have thought that a lot of Internet-related social problems could be solved by a strong dose of “cyber-manners.” Think about it… if we all just thought for a moment before we tweet, text or post then the world may be (continue reading...) Read more

Is Your Firewall Application Aware?

May 4, 2010 - Firewalls permit or deny applications based upon a set of rules and other criteria. And for the longest time, the ‘set of rules or other criteria’ was simply source and destination IP address and port number. FTP (continue reading...) Read more

It’s a Good Day in Cyberspace

May 3, 2010 - Even a Cybermum has trouble staying on top of all that’s new and exciting in this digital age!  This was announced a little earlier in the year but, I think it’s worthy of passing on the good word. McAfee and Facebook (continue reading...) Read more

Accuvant Shares Thoughts on McAfee Partner Program

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McAfee Enhanced SecurityAlliance Partner Program

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McAfee Partner Margin Advantage

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McAfee Partner Comments on Secure Computing Integration

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Twitter Spam Targets Email Messages

May 1, 2010 - A funny thing happened this past weekend.  I was checking my email in the  SPAM folder as I usually do each week…you know, looking for stray good messages and purging the bad ones when an email stood out from the rest. (continue reading...) Read more

Reminder: McAfee Channel Town Hall Webcast

April 30, 2010 - McAfee Partners, Please join McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt and Alex Thurber, SVP of WW Channels, for the McAfee Quarterly Channel Town Hall, taking place Monday, May 3rd at 8:00 a.m. PT.  Dave and Alex will celebrate the launch of the enhanced SecurityAlliance (continue reading...) Read more

McAfee for Android – a Mobile Security Update

April 29, 2010 - Today’s launch of McAfee VirusScan Mobile for Android marks an important step in McAfee’s mission of protecting consumers across their rapidly changing digital lives. At McAfee we have seen security threats reliably follow users with every popular content format, service and (continue reading...) Read more

McAfee Achieves 17th Consecutive Quarter of Double Digit Revenue Growth

April 29, 2010 - Today, we announced our first quarter 2010 results to Wall Street and delivered McAfee’s 17th consecutive quarter of revenue growth. First quarter revenue was a record $502.7 million, an increase of 12 percent year-over-year.   Additional highlights include: Deferred revenue reached a first (continue reading...) Read more

Data Protection – Where to Start

April 29, 2010 - One common question I get asked when I speak on Data Protection, is “what do I do first” – it’s interesting topic because although my presentation is (continue reading...) Read more

Securing InteropNet: A Lot of Security for Little Bit of Everything

April 28, 2010 - To say that InteropNet is a challenging environment to work in is an understatement. InteropNet functions like service provider, corporation, and academic institution, all at the same time… and as if that’s not challenging enough, it only really exists for (continue reading...) Read more

The McAfee Next Generation Firewall

April 28, 2010 - In a recent Gartner research note, “Defining the Next-Generation Firewall,” they state that “Changing business processes, the technology that enterprises deploy, and threats are driving new requirements for network security”. And they go on to say that “To meet these (continue reading...) Read more

Moving to Help Customers

April 27, 2010 - I want to thank all of you who have commented on my post from Friday about the faulty DAT file that affected some of our customers, and I’d like to give you a quick update on what we’re doing to (continue reading...) Read more

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