BT says the decision to review their security partner base was driven by the recognition that many customers find it difficult to navigate today’s complex security landscape, as well as customers’ desire to have a ‘leaner set of partners’.

Several big names have been revealed as underperforming compared with the market average with low partner sentiment. 

“While we are seeing a tremendous amount of courage and global goodwill to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, we also are unfortunately seeing an increase in bad actors looking to exploit the sudden uptick in cloud adoption."

Customers of Atlassian, a provider of team collaboration and productivity software, will be able to leverage McAfee MVISION Cloud to apply their security policies to their use of Atlassian services.

The cybersecurity company says the enhancement lets employees use Teams as a collaboration platform, participate in conversations and share documents while ensuring customer data remains secure with encryption.

As more people start working from home, Wi-Fi blackspots hinder productively and limit the choice of locations in the home for use as an office space.

Hidden apps are projected to be the cornerstone of the mobile sneak attack, with the McAfee report finding nearly 50% of all malicious activities in 2019 were from hidden apps.

McAfee Unified Cloud Edge was designed with a cloud-first mindset to simplify the implementation of SASE.

The acquisition of Light Point Securitywill supplement McAfee’s existing inbound and outbound protection for all web and cloud traffic, according to McAffee.

Thousands of data loss incidents occur every month in the cloud, leaving most at risk of sensitive data loss or regulatory non-compliance.

“As organisations around Australia quickly move toward cloud environments, data is no longer tied to enterprise networks. The dispersion of data fragments visibility and control, hereby, opening doors to security vulnerabilities."

"A core ingredient to being cyber ready involves empowering business leaders to minimise business down-time, while responding to a cyberattack at the same time."

The company was named the top cybersecurity vendor for channel satisfaction after achieving the highest overall rating against 10 others.

MVISION Insights will provide the analytics to enable organisations to recognise the threats they will need to take action against, and threats that could potentially impact them in the future.

The report uncovered that 99% of misconfiguration incidents in public cloud environments go undetected, exposing companies to data loss.

McAfee Labs saw an average of 504 new threats per minute in Q1 and a resurgence of ransomware along with changes in campaign execution and code.

TechDay spoke to McAfee MVision Cloud Asia Pacific regional director Joel Camissar about the drivers and the effects of the industry trend of outsourcing cybersecurity.

However, there is a divide between organisations who have addressed their shared responsibility for protecting data in the cloud, and those who have not.

Data breaches are becoming more serious as cybercriminals continue to target intellectual property.

Cybersecurity firm McAfee is suggesting that the Belkin WeMo Insight smart plug could be vulnerable to malware attacks – and Belkin has taken a very long time to fix the problem.

McAfee MVISION Cloud now integrates with GCP Cloud SCC to help security professionals gain visibility and control over their cloud resources.

Aussie consumers are at a loss when it comes to securing the increasing number of connected devices in their homes and are often opting to take no action at all.

The WiFi router gives parents more control over their children’s internet activities – and how long they spend online.

If you ever believed your mobile device was less exposed to online threats, now’s the time to take another look.