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 partner program, Q1 earnings, and discuss top issues and opportunity for partners in the coming quarters.
Tags: Channel Partners
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 device they use. With cell phones reaching saturation in some markets, it’s all about Read more…
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 quarter record of $1.4 billion, an increase of nine percent year-over-year Cash flow Read more…
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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 exactly about what most people should do, and in what order, everyone and every organization is different and one size, absolutely does not fit all. In my presentation I Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, Small Business
This week, I’m attending the Francopol conference on cybercrime, in Montreal. Francopol is the international training network of French-speaking police forces. Several speakers greatly impressed me, especially Dominique Dudemaine, Canadian Crown Prosecutor, who presented “Does cyberterrorism exist in Canada?” The answer is Yes; several lawsuits for Internet-related terrorist activities have been filed in Canada since Read more…
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 one week, twice a year, and then must be built again. McAfee’s participation with InteropNet Read more…
Tags: Network Security
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 challenges, firewalls need to evolve into what Gartner has been calling ‘next-generation firewalls.” McAfee agrees, Read more…
Tags: McAfee Firewall Enterprise, McAfee Network Security Platform, Network Security
Rumors that made the rounds over the last several days turned out to be true: The infamous Storm botnet is being rebuilt using new variants of the malware that actually resemble the functionality of older Trojans! Back “in the day,” the Storm botnet was one of the biggest botnets, sending out vast amounts of spam. Read more…
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 help them. For customers who have been negatively impacted we are offering the following: Impacted Read more…
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Today McAfee announces a great opportunity for channel partners with the launch of the McAfee Firewall Enterprise version 8.0 release. This launch addresses a $4.2 billion market, as the traditional firewall has been found lacking due to the influx of web 2.0 applications and malicious threats.
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