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McAfee has released its latest Mobile Threat Report that finds a surge in new attacks targeting people’s anxiety around COVID-19.>>

McAfee has released its latest cybersecurity report analysing cybercriminal activity related to malware and cyber threats in the first quarter of 2021. >>

McAfee has released a substantial expansion to its XDR platform aimed at proactively stopping targeted attacks.>>

“The world—and enterprises—adjusted amidst pandemic restrictions and sustained remote work challenges, while security threats continued to evolve in complexity and increase in volume.">>

"Together with our SIA partners, we are strengthening security for the critical apps that enterprises rely on every day.">>

The move aims to widen the scope for their combined efforts to ‘transform’ McAfee’s channel programme and provide access to McAfee products across Ingram Micro’s distribution network.>>

ThreatQuotient has been named McAfee Global Security Innovation Alliance Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year.>>

Global losses from cybercrime are close to becoming a ‘trillion-dollar’ shackle that is weighing down the global economy.>>

Attivo Networks’ endpoint security solutions are available for free trial and purchase through McAfee’s new cloud marketplace.>>

“The second quarter of 2020 saw continued developments in innovative threat categories such as PowerShell malware and the quick adaptation by cybercriminals to target organisations through employees working from remote environments.”>>

The agreement means BT becomes the first global provider to offer a fully managed Zoom Meetings service featuring a choice of connectivity and integration with its global voice network. >>

Temi is commonly used in environments including businesses, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and other environments including the home.>>

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.">>