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Multi-Cloud Environment Challenges for Government Agencies
Between January and April of this year, the government sector saw a 45% increase in enterprise cloud use, and as the work-from-home norm continues, socially distanced teamwork will require even more cloud-based collaboration services. Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures can offer government agencies the flexibility, enhanced security and capacity needed to ...
McAfee XDR: Taking Threat Detection and Response to a New Level
In the battle to protect digital data, the stakes have never been higher, and the outcome has never been more uncertain. Enterprises face ever-changing threats to their digital assets both inside and outside the traditional network perimeter from sophisticated threat actors, who use a changing assortment of techniques to find ...
Meaningful Context for Your Endpoint Threat Investigations
Threat intelligence (TI) — the art of distilling down everything that is happening globally in the adversarial threatscape and TI Programs – reducing to what is necessary context for your company and your security team to know and take mitigation action against — is hard. Yet, many companies continue to try and create a threat intelligence capability from the ground up and find that their TI programs are not what they ...
Industry Experts Weigh in on McAfee’s Proactive Cybersecurity
Recently Forbes shared an accurate depiction of McAfee in its article, McAfee Finally On The Right Path. Let me extend their innovation story and share with you the leadership path McAfee continues to blaze in cybersecurity. Imagine if organizations knew of high severity threats targeting their industry sector and geographies before they encountered such threats, with precise knowledge if their countermeasures could stop the threat? Also imagine if the countermeasures could not stop the threats, and they knew what they should do to improve those countermeasures so that the threat ...
McAfee Vision for SASE: Making Cloud Adoption Fast, Easy and Secure
While cloud services deliver on promised savings and convenience, keeping everything secure remains a moving target for many organizations. That’s because the enterprise perimeter has not only expanded, it has pushed the service edge to anywhere business takes you—or employees choose to go. Consequently, many organizations must uplevel how they ...
What to Expect from the Next Generation of Secure Web Gateways
After more than a century of technological innovation since the first units rolled off Henry Ford’s assembly lines, automobiles and transportation bear little in common with the Model T era. This evolution will continue as society finds better ways to achieve the outcome of moving people from point A to ...
Working from Home in 2020: Threat Actors Target the Cloud
Like any enterprise, cybercrime focuses its resources where it can derive value, which is data. In the case of ransomware, data is held hostage for a direct monetary exchange, whereas many other data breaches seek to steal data and monetize it on dark web markets. These two methods are even starting to merge, with ...
Time to Move from Reactive to Proactive Endpoint Security
One of the most useful new ideas in software development (especially in DevOps) is the concept of “shift-left.” Its meaning is simple: The earlier you are able to tackle an issue, the less trouble you will have later by preventing defects early in the software delivery process. But shift-left is ...
Quantifying Cloud Security Effectiveness
Let’s start with the good news. Agencies are adopting cloud services at an increased rate. Adoption has only increased in times of coronavirus quarantine lockdowns with most federal, state and municipal workforce working from home. What’s even better news is that we also see increased adoption of cloud security tools, ...
Simplify Secure Cloud Adoption with Your Next-Gen Secure Web Gateway
Today, with increased cloud adoption, more than eighty percent of corporate network traffic is destined for the internet. Backhauling internet traffic to a traditional Web Gateway’s “Hub and Spoke” architecture can be very costly. Network slows to a halt as traffics spikes, and VPN for remote workers proved to be ...
