“McAfee works towards protecting every aspect of a customers’ digital experience”

Vamsi Ponnekanti
Head of Technical Sales, India & SAARC, McAfee

Safeguarding customers & employees: McAfee works towards protecting every aspect of a customers’ digital experience - from device to the cloud. The company is responsible for protecting over 680 million+ total endpoints and provide security solutions to over 97 million enterprise endpoints, which include 75% of the world’s Fortune 500 firms.

For employees, McAfee’s robust set of SaaS applications provide a secure environment to work remotely and get work done with ease. Together, we are working on developing stronger defences to ensure that the ‘future of work’ is a secure one. 

Educating customers & employees: Implementing a cloud-based secure web gateway so corporate devices can be protected against web- based threats without routing through VPN.

Allowing employees to connect to sanctioned cloud services from their corporate devices without using their VPN, protecting data with a cloud access security broker (CASB).

Setting policy in your CASB so that cloud services have device checks, data controls, and are protected against attackers who can access SaaS accounts over the internet.

Implementing multi-factor authentication for sanctioned cloud services where applicable to reduce the risk of stolen credentials being used to access accounts.

Letting employees use their personal devices to access corporate SaaS applications to maintain productivity, with conditional access to sensitive data in the cloud.

Upcoming threat: While deepfakes technology is at a relatively nascent stage in India, considering its quick proliferation, it is essential to develop guidelines and regulations to curbits rampant misuse. Effective monitoring and punishable laws for such offences will be crucial in controlling this menace before it causes irreversible damage. Until then, it is up us as consumers to remain resilient, cautious to defend ourselves from the dark world of deepfakes.