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McAfee introduced MITRE ATT&CK into McAfee MVISION Cloud, the company's Cloud Access Security Broker, delivering a precise method to hunt, detect and stop cyberattacks on cloud services. This new integration gives SecOps teams a direct source of cloud vulnerabilities and threats mapped to the tactics and techniques of ATT&CK. McAfee is the first CASB provider to tag and visualize cloud security events within an ATT&CK. "Many SecOps teams leverage repeatable processes and frameworks such as ATT&CK to mitigate risk and respond to threats to their endpoints and networks, but so far cloud threats and vulnerabilities have presented an unfamiliar paradigm," said Rajiv Gupta, senior vice president and general manager of Cloud Security, McAfee.

McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, announced general availability of McAfee MVISION Insights, the industry's first proactive security solution that changes the cyber security paradigm by helping to stop threats before the attack. MVISION Insights provides actionable and preemptive threat intelligence by leveraging McAfee's cutting-edge threat research, augmented with sophisticated Artificial intelligence applied to real-time threat telemetry streamed from over 1 billion sensors.

As a result of this collaboration, Atlassian customers can now leverage the power of McAfee MVISON Cloud to apply their security policies to their use of Atlassian services. The need for solutions that are designed to secure the cloud are further validated within a recent McAfee report that found the average enterprise organization uses 1,400 different cloud services.

Zyxel Networks, a leader in delivering secure, AI- and cloud-powered home and business solutions, announced it has partnered with McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, to offer customers an integrated, one-box security solution designed specifically for small- to medium-sized businesses. The integration of McAfee's anti-malware solution into Zyxel's high-end ATP firewall family will provide SMBs with best-of-breed malware detection, security performance, and advanced web filtering within a single firewall device.

McAfee, a device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, announced that McAfee MVISION Cloud now supports encryption enhancements in Microsoft Teams, including encrypted webhooks and encrypted payloads. This enables organizations to improve productivity of their employees by letting them use Teams as a collaboration platform, participate in conversations and calls and upload and share documents while ensuring customer data remains secure with encryption when evaluated by McAfee MVISION Cloud.

Santa Clara, Calif-based McAfee has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Baltimore, MD-based Light Point Security. Financial details have not been disclosed, but on completion of the acquisition, the Light Point staff will join McAfee, while the Light Point technology will be integrated into the McAfee Secure Web Gateway.

Security provider McAfee is looking to a new acquisition as a way to better combat browser-based malware. On Tuesday, the company announced its intention to purchase Light Point Security, which makes a browser isolation product.

Eight new partnerships and seven new certified integrations to McAfee Security Innovation Alliance and McAfee CASB Connect Program give organizations a competitive advantage to secure people, devices and data in the cloud. As an extension of McAfee SIA, the McAfee CASB Connect Program is the industry's first self-serve framework that enables any cloud service provider or partner to rapidly onboard any SaaS application onto McAfee MVISION Cloud.

McAfee announced its extension of the long-standing partnership with Samsung to protect consumers' personal data and information from online threats. In addition to mobile, the partnership expands to better protect Samsung PCs and laptops users, where it matters.

McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, announced that its Board of Managers has appointed Peter Leav to the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective February 3, 2020. Leav will succeed Chris Young, who has decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer of McAfee.