Well, yes, actually, and they are part of Intel, and have been acquiring companies for themselves - for instance, Secure Computing a few years ago, for their Sidewinder firewalls (which are now McAfee Secure Enterprise Firewalls), among others.
I still don't like their AV product, but they haven't yet ruined the firewall... Kurt On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 15:57, Mathew Shember <mathew.shem...@synopsys.com> wrote: > Mcafee is stillll in business? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 02:46 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Subject: The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt > > * The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt > > Wow, this is actually major security news. I found this on the blog from > Coretrace, and they said: "This week, McAfee, one of the two dominant > forces in reactive, blacklist-based endpoint security, actively and > unequivocally endorsed Application Whitelisting. Ironically, in hard > coverage of Symantec's recent problems with pcAnywhere, the industry is > actively recommending application whitelisting too." Here is the link: > http://www.coretraceblogs.com/2012-01/security-earthquake-that-nobody-felt-mcafee-endorses-application-whitelisting/ > > So, what is the big news? It turns security on its head. Instead of > keeping bad code out, with application whitelisting (also known as > Application Control) you only allow known-good code to run. That's > really a 180, and very, very interesting from a system admin perspective. > > I have done some research in this area and have written a whitepaper > about whitelisting, and why as a system admin you should look into > this for the near future. This is a new security layer for your > 'defense-in-depth'. You will hear more from me about whitelisting this year: > http://www.knowbe4.com/resources/the-endpoint-security-advantages-of-whitelisting-a-whitepaper-for-system-administrators/ > > Warm regards, > > Stu > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
