Back in August, I spoke with Vago Muradian, host of This Week in Defense News about the challenging cyber security paradox facing The Pentagon: how do you balance between productivity and security?
And the Pentagon gets it.  As Mark Orndorff, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) program executive officer for information assurance and network operations, shared in [...]

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 malware were uploaded to their network.
 
Think about it. Thumb drives – tiny and able to enormous amounts of data – are ideal for moving information. Up until the ban, the CIO [...]

The U.S. Government gets it. The Administration gets it. The Pentagon gets it. The connections fused by networks and cyberspace have simultaneously made us powerful and weak. It’s a challenging paradox that often accompanies innovation – think e-mail, smartphones, social networks, etc.
The big question: How do you balance productivity with security?
It is this question, as [...]

The U.S. Army’s secure portal approach may prove more practical than U.S. Marine Corps’ ban
Recently, I had a chance to speak with Federal News Radio about evolving concerns at the Department of Defense (DoD) over network security and, in specific, the U.S. Marine Corps’ decision to enact a one-year ban on social media sites such [...]

I’m happy to announce that McAfee was recently awarded the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2, Level 2 validations from the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) for the McAfee Firewall Enterprise (Sidewinder®). For those who don’t know, the CMVP is a joint effort between National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Communications Security [...]

I just received my latest installment of the SANS NewsBites and noticed two articles that referenced data breaches based upon lost memory sticks. Not to pick on the UK and Ireland, but that’s where both incidents occurred. The real point is twofold; the Bank of Ireland, where PII data was on the USB stick, actually [...]

Just recently, McAfee completed IPv6 compliance testing at the United States Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC). The JITC is a US Department of Defense laboratory chartered to test Information Technologies and Information Assurance products to ensure operational effectiveness and suitability for the Defense Information Systems Agency and other DOD organizations.
McAfee specifically tested the I-2700 and [...]

Welcome bloggers! This is my initial post for McAfee in the blogosphere and after 9 years of public service I am thrilled to be able to “sound off” without filters!

Let’s begin, In case you couldn’t place the reference in my title, just go back in time to the 1939 classic “Wizard of Oz” [...]

As many of us have seen, several companies have invested time and development cycles to provide products to the US government to meet the OMB requirements for FDCC implementation compliance. There are now nine vendors, including McAfee’s Policy Auditor, that are certified within the SCAP program.

The one item that has not received the same press [...]

What is compliance?
Compliance is a well used term these days especially around the network and IT security environments. As we all know, compliance really defines no measurements in itself, but rather is defined by the policies, requirements and mandates that compile the SOP of a security organization. There are just too many areas of [...]