McAfee 2018: Year in Review
2018 was an eventful year for all of us at McAfee. It was full of discovery, innovation, and progress—and we’re thrilled to have seen it all come to fruition. Before we look ahead to what’s in the pipeline for 2019, let’s take a look back at all the progress we’ve made this year and see how McAfee events, discoveries, and product announcements have affected, educated, and assisted users and enterprises everywhere.
MPOWERing Security Professionals Around the World
Every year, security experts gather at MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit to strategize, network, and learn about innovative ways to ward off advanced cyberattacks. This year was no different, as innovation was everywhere at MPOWER Americas, APAC, Japan, and EMEA. At the Americas event, we hosted Partner Summit, where head of channel sales and operations for the Americas, Ken McCray, discussed the program, products, and corporate strategy. Partners had the opportunity to dig deeper into this information through several Q&A sessions throughout the day. MPOWER Americas also featured groundbreaking announcements, including McAfee CEO Chris Young’s announcement of the latest additions to the MVISION product family: MVISION® Endpoint Detection and Response (MVISION EDR) and MVISION® Cloud.
ATR Analysis
This year was a prolific one, especially for our Advanced Threat Research team, which unveiled discovery after discovery about the threat landscape, from ‘Operation Oceansalt’ delivering five distinct waves of attacks on victims, to Triton malware spearheading the latest attacks on industrial systems, to GandCrab ransomware evolving rapidly, to the Cortana vulnerability. These discoveries not only taught us about cybercriminal techniques and intentions, but they also helped us prepare ourselves for potential threats in 2019.
Progress via Products
2018 wouldn’t be complete without a plethora of product updates and announcements, all designed to help organizations secure crucial data. This year, we were proud to announce McAfee MVISION®, a collection of products designed to support native security controls and third-party technologies.
McAfee MVISION® Endpoint orchestrates the native security controls in Windows 10 with targeted advanced threat defenses in a unified management workflow to visualize and investigate threats, understand compliance, and pivot to action. McAfee MVISION® Mobile protects against threats on Android and iOS devices. McAfee MVISION® ePO, a SaaS service, is designed to eliminate complexity by elevating management above the specific threat defense technologies with simple, intuitive workflows for security threat and compliance control across devices.
Beyond that, many McAfee products were updated to help security teams everywhere adapt to the ever-evolving threat landscape, and some even took home awards for their excellence.
All in all, 2018 was a great year. But, as always with cybersecurity, there’s still work to do, and we’re excited to work together to create a secure 2019 for everyone.
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