McAfee

Bolstered by encouraging growth over the first half of this year despite the financial crisis, IT security vendor McAfee is squaring up to market rival Symantec and aiming to snatch more market share. Julian Pletts talks exclusively to CEO and president, Dave DeWalt.

Networking specialist Extreme Networks and security manufacturer McAfee have come together to address secure networking for enterprise end-users.

Forensic services and ethical hackers perform crucial roles in ensuring organisational security, but the Middle East is slow on adoption

McAfee releases revealing report on the environmental impact of spam around the world

McAfee has hired ex-3Com boss Hamed Diab to head its Middle East business

Chooses to bring in security VAD ComputerLinks as a replacement for Redington

McAfee's latest criminology report highlights the ways in which malicious individuals across the globe can use the recession to compromise networks and steal data.

The security provider continues to try and maintain its dominant position in the security space, as it presents its newest solution for small and medium sized enterprises.

With a number of high-profile data breaches in the news, companies are increasingly looking to shore up their shakey IT policies with solid examples of best practice. Imthishan Giado asks security experts for their advice.

Fifty percent of small to medium sized businesses only spend an hour a week managing their IT security, according to research conducted for GULFCOMMS exhibitor McAfee.

McAfee Total Protection for Virtualization designed to protect physical and virtual machines

Data encryption is crucial to protecting the integrity of enterprise information. Organisations investing in encryption have to understand their requirements, and implement solutions across the company to get the most from them.

If your personal computer has fallen ill and you want to get it back into running condition, read on.

Data leakage is as real a threat for Middle East enterprises as it is for other global firms. Several new solutions in the market mean to address the problem, but enterprises need to act with caution when choosing and working with one.

Management change in the IT channel is notoriously more volatile at vendor level than within the partner community.

McAfee launches integrated security suite to provide easier management of network security

This week Windows Middle East reveals top tools to help you keep greedy phishers at bay.

Growing popularity of virtualization is not matched with proper understanding of security risks says McAfee

Whichever link in the channel chain that you talk to, from vendors to resellers, they all sing the same tune when it comes to the UAE IT market: business is good. UAE-based IT companies are even making waves on the global stage, reflecting the country's strength - much like Singapore to the east - as a regional hub. But is the growth sustainable or are there cracks under the surface?

We look at the developments taking place in the Sultanate to discover if the Omani market can escape the shadows.

McAfee announces acquisition of SafeBoot to extend portfolio into data encryption

Software console gives large organizations central control over diverse security environments.

Haifa Wehbe is the most dangerous Arabic celebrity in cyberspace, according to research from McAfee.

While online banking has made life easier, it has also exposed customers to the menace of cyber crime.

It is about time that the Middle East industry made some time for open and honest discussion, in the interests of learning about each other and eventually, improving products and solutions.

A lack of structured enterprise mobility leaves most mobile devices open and vulnerable to attack.

McAfee enlists services of Kuwaiti enterprise technology partner to roll out new Foundstone security solution for Ministry of Education.

Security specialist SonicWall has enhanced its Enforced Client security suite, including support for Windows Vista.

Internet security firm Websense is aiming to take on bigger rivals with last week's US$400m capture of SurfControl.

Recently-appointed distribution boss spells out plans to expand channel.

With cybercrime on the rise in the Gulf, a special unit has been created to fight back against the region's online fraudsters.

The importance of security to companies is still not given enough weight at board level.

Saudi Arabia has rapidly emerged as the market that no vendor or distributor with genuine pan-regional ambition can afford to ignore. Its strategic importance to the wider Middle East channel has grown enormously in recent years, prompting an unprecedented level of domestic and foreign investment that has made the Kingdom a compelling arena to operate. As the market shapes up for another year of strong development in 2007, Channel Middle East asks what it takes to succeed in Saudi.

Romanian and Russian domains are the most likely hosts of web nasties, says McAfee.

McAfee’s former lawyer Kent Roberts has been indicted on charges he backdated stock options for financial gain.

Online and IT-related identity theft has risen dramatically in the last few years, according to a white paper from security software firm McAfee.

Security firm McAfee said it is making a series of job layoffs to help it cut costs and to strengthen its focus.

Online retailers were being urged to tighten their security measures as the holiday season approached at the end of 2006.

This year’s Windows Middle East Awards were the most hotly contested to date.

Identity theft and increased spam for 2007, vendor claims

How and why should you keep network intruders out of your firm’s local area network (LAN)? Windows Middle East talks to the experts

As one of the frontrunners in the IT security market, McAfee’s Middle East arm places a strong emphasis on the channel. The signing of Redington as a distribution partner earlier this year proves how serious it is about extending its reach across the region. With that in mind, we thought we’d ‘Get To Know’ Middle East channel manager Samer Malak...

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