During a post-earnings interview with Bloomberg last week, the interview kicked off with McAfee being named as the “world’s largest security company.” It was validating for McAfee to be recognized in this way as our sole focus continues to be security.
Our customers clearly appreciate this. I’ve traveled around the world to meet with more than [...]

A big thank you to everyone who participated in Computerworld Singapore’s customer care survey. McAfee took first place in the survey, beating all traditional rivals, including Symantec and regional favorite Trend Micro, according to the survey results published online recently.
“McAfee had the distinction of not being given a single negative rating (a score of four [...]

I’m often asked by others how McAfee chooses the types of initiatives we support around the world. While we have certain guidelines for eligibility and a weighting to organizations in our local communities, there are two other important criteria: the opportunity for partnerships and use of technology.
Earlier this week, McAfee, together with the government of [...]

Since his arrival at McAfee, our CEO Dave DeWalt has advocated for changes in cybersecurity legislation in Washington. I commend Dave’s outreach to legislators and completely agree with the fact that as a nation we need to be proactive and address the fact that new policy is needed to curb the trend of cybercrime.
Within the [...]

Managed security, security “in the clouds,” whatever you call it, it’s on the rise according to a recent CompTIA survey. Companies are finding more economic methods of managing their organizations’ security, by letting others do the work for them. At the end of the day, managed security service providers (MSSP) are helping organizations make better [...]

Remember when the term “software as service” first exploded on the scene to describe hosted applications? It described a major paradigm change with regards to how we use our computing resources. And now everyone is talking about “Web 2.0” as a platform to get there. Recently we’ve also seen “social networking” and user-generated (hosted) content [...]

“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
–Margaret Mead
For the last couple weeks, I’ve noticed an uptick in emails coming in regarding the upcoming “National Conference on Volunteering and Service.” This event, convened by the Corporation for National and Community Service [...]

The credit card industry is working hard to evangelize the PCI standard for card security. However, as with any compliance initiative, organizations are slow to adopt and enforce standards until real “teeth” are in place (think HIPAA). As Charles Ross mentioned in his blog post, PCI-compliance alone doesn’t guarantee security.
Wal-Mart recently announced an expansion plan [...]