Daniel Flaherty is a member of the product team for McAfee MVISION Cloud, our Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solution, focused on developing educational and product-related content. He has been with McAfee since 2010.
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Data Goes Supernova: Exploring Security at the Cloud Edge
Modern enterprises are fueled by data. The force of the cloud has been like gravity in a supernova, causing data to explode outward and disperse forever. No longer constrained by the network, the free flow of data to cloud service providers and a wide range of devices fragments visibility and ...
Security is Shifting to a Unified Cloud Edge
More than 95% of companies today use cloud services, and 83% store sensitive data in the cloud. This data is traveling via a larger and more diverse group of devices than ever before, to and from an ever-growing list of cloud services. More importantly, it is moving in ways you ...
Test Your Knowledge on How Businesses Use and Secure the Cloud
Security used to be an inhibitor to cloud adoption, but now the tables have turned, and for the first time we are seeing security professionals embrace the cloud as a more secure environment for their business. Not only are they finding it more secure, but the benefits of cloud adoption ...
A Brief History of Cloud Computing and Security
According to recent research1, 50% of organizations use more than one public cloud infrastructure vendor, choosing between Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and a series of others. 85% of those using more than one cloud infrastructure provider are managing up to four1, seeking the best fit ...
Following Ransomware’s Path to Extortion
It comes as no surprise that ransomware is the fastest growing form of criminal malware, accelerating in quantity 128% year over year. This plethora of ransomware is, however, primarily acting across one type of playing field- the web. In fact, 80% of the methods used to deliver criminal malware ...
Better Malware Protection, Help for Endpoints in McAfee Web Gateway Release
Every few months, our development team releases a new version of Web Gateway software with multiple improvements they’ve been working towards in their agile development process. This time around, Web Gateway continues to evolve in the critical area of malware protection, expands its capabilities to share threat information, and more. ...
When Malware Has No File, Evaluate Code Behavior to Prevent a Breach
Delivering a malicious payload to infect an end user system should be difficult – for years the security industry has worked to improve protection technology to reduce the number of compromised endpoints security teams need to address. But what happens when that payload doesn’t fit the mold we’re used to, ...
