I just got back from Asia and with the 2008 Olympics less than a year away, and continuing explosive growth across the region, there will soon be even more attention on this side of the world. Beijing, the host city, is under massive construction, which means huge increases in employment and opportunity. The momentous event [...]

One in six women and one in 33 men will be victims of sexual assault or rape in their lifetime. McAfee realizes the serious nature of these statistics and is committed to making a difference. In early 2005, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization, approached McAfee with [...]

McAfee’s Avert Labs has found more new malware in 2007 than in all of 2005 and 2006 combined. With this in mind, I had a lively conversation last week with TheStreet.com. We discussed how our approach differs from Symantec, and how excited I am about the release of McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator (version 4.0). ePO is [...]

As many of you may know, I was fortunate enough to address a crowd of some of the country’s top CIOs earlier this week at the InformationWeek 500 conference in Tucson, AZ.
During my speech, I discussed the alarming growth of cybercrime, and mentioned a statistic that shows that cybercrime is now outpacing the [...]

Last week, while I was on a flight en route to San Francisco to present at this year’s huge VMworld Conference (around 10,000 attendees), I happen to come across an eWeek article predicting the “death of traditional network security” due to the incredible growth in popularity of software virtualization.
I’m a big believer in virtualization and [...]

The theme of partnerships has resonated throughout several of my previous blog posts. Last month I highlighted McAfee’s partnership with the Canadian government and other industry and community stakeholders as part of the Canadian Homelessness Partnering Strategy.
That brings me to another of McAfee’s major partnerships: the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). The NCSA is [...]

I recently took another trip to D.C., this time to meet with our federal partners and Department of Defense customers. As you can imagine, there is a great deal of interest in security within our defense agencies, so we had a lot to talk about. I also spent some time with McAfee’s government team, and [...]