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Endpoint Security 301: When Products, Policies, and People Break Down the Lines of Communication
Security architecture is like the ocean: no one owns it, and it is constantly affected by change. New technologies are introduced, staff changes occur, and as a result, communication suffers. I often see environments where ownership is placed into silos across teams in the enterprise, meaning IT administrators preventing threats ...
McAfee Up Levels Insights for Customers
Authored by Anand Ramanathan McAfee recently announced MVISION Insights designed to help customers proactively detect, rank and respond quickly and accurately to threats. On top of having to respond to threats that persistently target their companies, security professionals also face another huge challenge – prioritizing what threat information is relevant ...
Cybersecurity & Artificial Intelligence (AI) – a view from the EU Rear Window, Part I
Much has been said about the power of AI and how tomorrow’s CISO won’t be able to provide efficient cybersecurity without it. The hype surrounding AI is based on both the quickening pace of natural language capability development and the current deficiency of capable and competent cybersecurity professionals. A quick ...
Response Required: Why Identifying Threats With Your EDR Isn’t Enough
The perpetrator was a master of disguise, outfitting himself as an employee to bypass the extensive preventive security controls and flee with the contents of the vault. Fortunately, the building was equipped with strong detection security measures, and the burglar—unaware of the location of a laser tripwire—soon set off a ...
The AI (R)evolution: Why Humans Will Always Have a Place in the SOC
In cybersecurity, the combination of men, women and machines can do what neither can do alone — form a complementary team capable of upholding order and fighting the forces of evil. The 20th century was uniquely fascinated with the idea of artificial intelligence (AI). From friendly and helpful humanoid machines ...
Threat Hunting or Efficiency: Pick Your EDR Path?
“Do You Want It Done Fast, Or Do You Want It Done Right?” “Yes.” “Help out more with our business objectives.” “Cover an increasing number of endpoints.” “Cut budgets.” “Make it all work without adding staff.” Cybersecurity teams face a lot of conflicting objectives—both within their teams and from upper ...
Ransomware: The Digital Plague that Still Persists
Ransomware began its reign of cyber terror in 1989 and remains a serious and dangerous threat today. In layman’s terms, ransomware is malware that employs encryption to lock users out of their devices or block access to critical data or files. A sum of money, or ransom, is then demanded ...
It’s About Time: Cybersecurity Insights, Visibility, and Prioritization
As McAfee Chief Executive Officer Chris Young said in his 2019 MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit keynote address, time is the most valuable resource that we all share. But time isn’t always on our side – especially when it comes to cybersecurity. “Time is the one constant that we cannot change. It’s ...
TLS 1.3 and McAfee Web Gateway
With the introduction of TLS 1.3 in 2018, IETF’s goal was (and is) to make the Internet a safer and more secure place. Legacy technologies such as the RSA key exchange have been phased out now. Replacing it is a much safer Diffie-Hellman key exchange. There are two main benefits ...
Increasing Value with Security Integration
What would your security team do with an extra 62 days? According to a recent study by IDC, that’s the amount of time the average-sized security team can expect to regain by addressing a lack of security management integration. With just 12 percent of respondents currently using an end-to-end management ...
