I recently took a trip to Capitol Hill to participate in the Business Software Alliance’s CEO Forum, where along with 10 of my colleagues from other leading software vendors I had the chance to meet with several Administration and Congressional leaders, including U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, [...]

As you know, McAfee is a proud sponsor of McAfee Coliseum over in Oakland, home to the A’s and the Raiders. On Monday night, I had the pleasure of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch, something anyone who grew up playing Little League has dreamed about at least once or twice—or maybe even a thousand [...]

In my previous post, the inaugural one for this corporate responsibility thread, I introduced our approach to corporate responsibility as “our commitments to protecting what we value: our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, suppliers and communities.” Nice words…but what does that actually mean? Let me explain a bit.
For our employees, the heart and soul (and brains!) [...]

The integration of security into virtual machine (VM) technology is an exciting and encouraging prospect that is likely to provide an additional line of defense in the never-ending fight against malware and malicious activity.
A VM typically refers to running multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical computer. This has long been the territory for [...]

I was in New York yesterday to host McAfee’s annual meeting for financial analysts and visit customers. I was able to share with the analysts why I joined McAfee–a question people always ask me–and give an overview of our business and its opportunities. Most importantly I was able to tell them why I think this [...]

With Internet browsing as a major vector for malware and abuse, Google announced last week it had acquired GreenBorder. After all, the Web is the backbone of Google’s business.
So why did Google purchase a sandboxing technology for browsing? I believe it is an attempt to provide “up selling” opportunities to businesses and possibly home users. [...]

As if communities don’t have enough to worry about today with gangs, drugs, violence and sexual predators, they can now add identity thieves to the list.
I recently read about the alpha release of a site called Fatdoor.com, which was designed to create online social communities for off-line neighbors. Profiles are overlaid onto a Microsoft Virtual [...]