I attended the Macworld 2008 Conference last week in San Francisco, and in retrospect several diametrically-opposing observations come to mind on the experience.
First, and foremost as a security professional, I was struck by how little concern there is in the Mac community for matters of information security and personal information protection. Everyone reading this blog [...]

Data loss is a burning issue that should be on the mind of every C-level executive and board member, if it isn’t already. According to a recent Ponemon Data Loss Study, the costs associated with data breaches rose 55% in 2007.
What is troubling is the scope and opportunity for such abuse and loss of data, [...]

Open source software provides an invaluable benefit to almost any software developer, including McAfee. In the future I expect the use of open source code by software makers to increase.
Why is open source code so important? Well, because a software developer can use open source code instead of spending time developing code that does the [...]

Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported that MySpace has reached an agreement with more than 45 states to help prevent sexual predators from misusing the social networking site. This is a step in the right direction, but there’s more work to be done.
In its current form, the Internet is no place for an unsupervised [...]

If you read Jeff Green’s post on the Avert Labs blog yesterday, you saw that there was a staggering increase in the amount of malware last year, reaching almost “epidemic” proportions. By year’s end, there were 357,820 pieces of malware, up from 221,935 at the beginning of the year. That’s one driver written every four [...]

Our Avert Labs researchers announced a stunning prediction that the 2007 year-end malware virus count will reach more than 357,000 – a 60 percent increase over 2006. They also predict the cumulative total of 2008 to hit 550,000. When you look at these malware rates and compare them to the low rate of convictions for [...]

In case you missed it, over the holidays we quietly announced a major validation of our technology strategy. For the third consecutive year, McAfee leads Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms. This is a great acknowledgement coming from one of the most respected firms in the industry. I am very excited about this and [...]