McAfee Labs Threats Report August 2019

August 29, 2019

Welcome to the McAfee Labs Threats Report, August 2019. In this edition, we highlight the significant investigative research and trends in threats statistics and observations in the evolving threat landscape gathered by the McAfee® Advanced Threat Research and McAfee® Labs teams in Q1 of 2019. In the first quarter of 2019, ransomware attacks grew by 118%, new ransomware families were detected, and threat actors used innovative techniques.

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FRISK Software International

FRISK Software International is the creator of F-PROT Antivirus. In addition to end-user products, the company licenses out the proven antivirus engine. One unique feature of this engine is its portability to a number of platforms. Apart from this, the company also sells Puki (an Icelandic spell-checker for MS Office), Espolin ( a genealogy program) and AVES (an antispam service).

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Supercharge Your DLP Security Program

whitePaper | December 22, 2022

Today’s digitally transformed organizations handle vast volumes of data that is at perpetual risk for loss and leakage, either intentionally through data breaches or unintentionally through employee errors. With cybercrime damages expected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, 1 organizations must protect their threat surface holistically.

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Application Security in a Multi-Cloud World

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

In the mad dash to the cloud, organizations have turned their application environments into a miscellaneous mess. Whether it be private, public or on-premise, organizations are leveraging heterogenous application hosting environments as they transition to the next phase of cloud computing: The multi-cloud.

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Guide to Cloud Security Posture Management Tools

whitePaper | June 16, 2023

Good cloud security hygiene starts with complete visibility into the security and compliance posture of every resource you deploy into your cloud. It’s one thing to achieve this visibility in a single cloud environment—you can lean heavily on the native monitoring and auditing tools of your cloud provider, using third-party solutions to fill in gaps (e.g., threat detection)—but in a multi-cloud architecture, maintaining robust cloud security posture becomes exponentially more complex. It is much more difficult to achieve centralized visibility as well as consistently enforce policies and compliance rules within a multi-cloud environment. It’s also more complicated to detect threats and fix vulnerabilities quickly due to the sheer complexity of threats across distributed, multilayered architectures. You can address these challenges, though—and you need to, if you want to take advantage of multi-cloud architecture without compromising on security.

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Dispatcher Phoenix Security

whitePaper | December 16, 2022

The advancement of technology has transformed the MFP into a key element of a company’s document infrastructure and workflow; however, as the role of the MFP has changed, the risk of security breaches has increased as well. Ensuring document confidentiality, allowing for system authentication, and providing clear audit trails are now necessities in every document-intensive industry. The objective of this white paper is to describe how Konica Minolta’s Dispatcher Phoenix software application helps organizations comply with their security requirements.

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IoT Cybersecurity vision 2018-2019

whitePaper | November 6, 2019

The emergence of IoT – the networked connection of people, process, data and things – is expected to significantly grow the number of connected devices worldwide, from billions of units we have today, to tens of billions of units expected to be deployed in the coming years as stated by several analysts.

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Autodesk® Fusion 360 Security Whitepaper

whitePaper | October 27, 2022

Autodesk® Fusion 360™ is the first 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE tool of its kind. It connects your product development process in a single cloud-based platform that works on both Mac and PC. The Fusion 360 tools enable fast and easy exploration of design ideas with a secure and integrated concept-to-fabrication toolset that extends to include web browsers and mobile devices.

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Spotlight

FRISK Software International

FRISK Software International is the creator of F-PROT Antivirus. In addition to end-user products, the company licenses out the proven antivirus engine. One unique feature of this engine is its portability to a number of platforms. Apart from this, the company also sells Puki (an Icelandic spell-checker for MS Office), Espolin ( a genealogy program) and AVES (an antispam service).

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