A recurring theme in America’s response to the COVID pandemic is to work from home. While this is seen to help flatten the curve of COVID, it has created a new challenge to the cyber community. More now than ever, workers are relying on secure connections to continue working at full capacity. Both industry and Federal guidelines and tools have quickly adapted to help create safe cyber environments, but is it enough? […]

Public sector security professionals have had an extremely busy six months juggling pandemic-driven security needs alongside the perennial objective of improving Federal agency security for the longer haul. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) announced March 23 that it renewed its antivirus software license agreement with McAfee, with the move coming amid increased employee telework caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. […]

According to a new report by McAfee, cyber criminals are growing their capabilities to target smartphones by hiding certain apps. […]

The 2020 election cycle got off to a rocky start with the Feb. 3 Iowa Caucus plagued with technical trouble, and a Feb. 3 report from McAfee only doubles down on election technology concerns. […]

Sixty-one percent of IT security professionals report experiencing a data breach at their current employer, according to an April 29 report from McAfee. […]

The ransomware attack that recently hit Tribune Publishing was perpetrated by an independent crime organization, rather than a nation-state, McAfee announced Wednesday. […]

McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) today released a new report about modernizing Social Security Numbers (SSN) in light of growing privacy and security concerns over using SSNs as a de facto personal identifier. The […]

With the 2018 midterm elections less than 50 days away, Symantec is joining the chorus with several other cybersecurity companies by offering free election security measures. […]

New technologies and techniques are changing the cybercrime landscape in a significant way, creating new challenges for those entrusted with protecting networks and data. […]

Agencies undergoing digital transformation are combining on-premise, hybrid, and multiple cloud solutions into their environments. To that end, agencies need to weave cloud security and protection of on-premise systems into their broader security strategy for a true, defense-in-depth approach. […]