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McAfee raises the white flag for reactive security… Is whitelisting the answer?

The white flag is a universal symbol of truce, a ceasefire if you will. In war, or in this case the war against cybercrime, McAfee this week issued a sort of truce with its call to arms for the security industry to take the offensive against malware attacks. This action speaks volumes about the current state of the security industry. And we couldn’t agree more. If one of the world’s leading antivirus security software makers is saying that the cat-and-mouse game of trying to keep up with the record amount of malware seen in the first half of 2010 is not working, then we all need to sit up and listen. Continue reading this post…

McAfee move validates application whitelisting market

Yesterday, McAfee announced its intent to acquire one of CoreTrace’s fellow application whitelisting brethren, Solidcore. We are happy for our friends at Solidcore, but even happier for the application whitelisting market overall. Continue reading this post…