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McAfee Channel: McAfee Channel Blogging Begins McAfee Channel blogging begins with Alex Thurber, SVP of worldwide channel operations at McAfee.
Support: McAfee Online Support Community Live Today the McAfee Online Support Community went live, giving you a way to interact with McAfee business users, ask questions and share best practices. Additionally, ...
Family Safety: Zombies in Your Neighborhood On All Hallows Eve, spooky tricks and treats are abound. You will see all sorts of ghouls (princesses too!). But watch out for more than just ghosts and ...
CEO: Another “Triple Double” Quarter Today, we announced our Q3 2009 results to Wall Street and delivered McAfee’s 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit, year-over-year revenue growth ...
Corporate Responsibility: Teaching Cybersecurity As you may know, October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Organized by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), National Cyber Security Awareness ...
McAfee Labs: NOW LIVE! McAfee Online Support Community The McAfee Online Support Community gives you a way to interact with other McAfee business users to ask questions and share best practices. Additionally, ...
Risk & Compliance: PCI Council Views on Application Whitelisting Recently the PCI Security Standards Council released an FAQ that mentions how “application whitelisting” can be used as a compensating control ...
Public Sector: DOD Should Demand Built-in Thumb Drive Defense Last year, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) temporarily banned the use of thumb drives and other removable storage devices because viruses, worms and ...
Security Perspectives: The Myths Of Security In my new book, “The Myths of Security” (O’Reilly, 2009), I spend a lot of time looking at why traditional antivirus solutions get a bad rap. I also ...
CTO: How to Deal with Terrible Tuesday I’ve seen a lot of Patch Tuesdays. If you look back at history, the concept of updating (“patching”) the Windows operating system began with ...
Network Security: NSS Labs Test Reveals TippingPoint’s Struggles Customers have myriad challenges facing them, and the last thing they have time do to is validate vendor claims. Do their security purchases, past or present, ...
Management: Get Informed on Security at FOCUS 09 On October 6-9, 2009, security professionals from around the world will come together for four days of networking and learning at FOCUS 09, McAfee’s 2nd ...
Endpoint: McAfee Endpoint Customers Rest Easy on Patch Tuesday Two days ago Microsoft released an unprecedented 13 patches, covering 34 vulnerabilities and roughly requiring 30MB of code to fully patch a system. Microsoft ...
Data Protection: H.R 2221 – The Federal Data Accountability and Trust Act This week I’ve been working my way through H.R 2221 – the “Data Accountability and Trust Act” . This proposed legislation is making its way through ...
Critical Infrastructure: Cyberspies Hack Power Grid – Those in the Know, Knew! Last month the press was abuzz with the news that the US electric grid has been hacked by foreign operatives. To anyone who has studied security in the ...
Consumer: Does Microsoft give you security’s essentials? This week, Microsoft announced the availability of Security Essentials for consumers, which is similar to other free anti-virus software. You might be wondering, ...

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