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US County Election Websites (Still) Fail to Fulfill Basic Security Measures
In January 2020, McAfee released the results of a survey establishing the extent of the use of .GOV validation and HTTPS encryption among county government websites in 13 states projected to be critical in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. The research was a result of my concern that the lack ...
NDAA Conference: Opportunity to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity Posture
As Congress prepares to return to Washington in the coming weeks, finalizing the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will be a top priority. The massive defense bill features several important cybersecurity provisions, from strengthening CISA and promoting interoperability to creating a National Cyber Director position in the White House ...
How McAfee Makes an Impact: 2019 CSR Report Launch
At McAfee, we defend the world from cyber threats. We live our values daily. But most importantly, we recognize the power of inclusion and diversity in helping to create a better world inside and outside of McAfee. Recently, we launched our 2019 corporate social responsibility report—our Impact Report. Last year, ...
Your CEO Just Asked If We Are Protected from This Threat? Now What?
For years, CISOs have grappled with a fundamental challenge – understanding how protected they truly are against the latest threats and campaigns facing them. Never really knowing what threats and campaigns matter most to their specific organization, security teams have typically had to wait until vulnerabilities were weaponized, and threats ...
Defending our DoD Customers at Home
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, I heard that many of our Defense customers would be working from home and immediately thought, “We have to help them do this securely.” Very quickly, however, another issue arose: How were some of them going to do it at all, as they were not ...
McAfee Surveys Cyber-Threats in the Age of Coronavirus
Change is a constant in technology, and the greatest changes are often driven by major events that fundamentally reshape how people work and conduct business. In the Age of Coronavirus, more than ever, technology and cybersecurity must keep pace with disruption and change, adapt to adversity, and even accelerate their ...
Zero Trust, SASE-Digital Enablers or Adding Complexity to Cyber Ecosystems
Given the title of this article I suspect you are reading this because you have been in a recent situation where you have been asked the question “What is the difference between Zero Trust and SASE?”. I further suspect that the next question you were asked of course is “Which ...
COVID-19 & Voting: When Paper is the Safest Election Technology
There are concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic will discourage voters from turning out to vote in person for this year’s U.S. presidential primaries and general election. State governments are considering alternative voting processes to protect voters and election officials from infection at the polls. As strange as it may sound ...
Interoperability Is Key To Cybersecurity – A Conversation at CSIS
Interoperability – a subject that for too long cybersecurity companies have treated as an inconvenient nuisance – is finally getting the attention it deserves. In February, I had the opportunity to discuss the critical nature of interoperability with true security experts in the public and private sectors. We agreed that ...
Cybersecurity through openness: creating the right company culture
Interoperability and openness are concepts that have a tendency to turn technical quickly. But for McAfee, it goes beyond software. To stay cybersecure, organisations need to build in openness in their company structures, ensuring that different departments, from engineering, to legal, HR and business development teams all work together to ...
