Time to Get Proactive About Threat Hunting
When I think about the many challenges that threat hunters face nowadays, trust me when I say that I feel their pain. Early in my career, I was a Security Engineer in a SOC who scrambled into action upon receiving the proverbial midnight call about an incident. The system I was part of wasn’t ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s Quiz Time! How Well Do You Know Endpoint Security Best Practices?
How confident are you that you have the best security practices in place across your organization? Like most, you probably have your concerns. Ever wonder what keeps your peers up at night and how your security practices compare to others? We recently sponsored a SANS survey on endpoint protection and response ...
How the Rubber Meets the Road in Human-Machine Teaming
Everywhere you turn today, machine learning and artificial intelligence are being hyped as both a menace to and the savior of the human race. This is perhaps especially true in cybersecurity. What these alluring terms usually mean is simply related to detailed statistical comparisons derived from massive data collections. Let’s ...
EDR – Not just for Large Enterprises?
When you think of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools, do you envision a CSI-style crime lab with dozens of monitors and people with eagle eye views of what their users and defenses are doing? For many, the idea of EDR seems like something for “the big players” with teams ...
McAfee Endpoint Security Earns Top Product Award
The AV-TEST Institute, a leading international and independent service provider in the fields of IT security and anti-virus research, has given McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) a Top Product Award in their latest corporate Windows7 test. AV-Test evaluated the most recent version 10.5.3 of McAfee Endpoint Security and gave it a ...
Generating Compliance History Reports
When you’re managing a large environment with thousands of endpoints, assuring consistency can be a huge challenge. Imagine that you want every endpoint to be upgraded to a specific software version, for example. In many cases, you’re forced to rely on manual tracking, where errors and omissions are commonplace. And, ...
When it Comes to Malware, Actions Can Speak Louder than Words
This blog post was written by Raja Patel. At some point as a child, a parent likely told you, “actions speak louder than words.” It’s a good life lesson—and it can hold just as true when fighting malware. Cybercriminals have become extremely skilled at disguising the true nature of malware ...
Use Tags to Simplify Endpoint Security Management
One thing that sets McAfee apart in endpoint security management is the ability to manage multiple security technologies for hundreds of thousands of endpoints through a single interface: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). But while our customers appreciate ePO, it’s even more powerful than some realize. In my next few blogs, ...
