Pamela Warren

Cybercrime Strategist Pamela Warren is McAfee’s Cybercrime Strategist and Director of Global Public Sector and Critical Infrastructure Initiatives. Having worked in the security industry in both the U.S. intelligence community and the private sector for over a decade, she is recognized as one of McAfee’s experts on data protection and public sector issues. As McAfee’s Cybercrime Strategist, Ms. Warren engages government agencies and leaders, industry CIOs, Chief Privacy Officers and the law enforcement community to help facilitate the exchange of innovative ideas on the global issue of cybercrime. She regularly engages McAfee customers on concerns involving employee education, web 2.0, and the growing sophistication of cybercrime. Ms. Warren speaks at numerous industry events, has testified to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, served on the DSL Forum security working group, ANSI X9, and on the U.S. National Security Telecommunications Advisory Council to address cyber security and critical infrastructure issues, and is regularly quoted by the media regarding McAfee’s cybercrime initiative. Most recently, she led the development of McAfee’s CyberSafety Resources Portal and K-12 cybersafety outreach program and serves on the Computer Crime Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). Ms. Warren holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the George Washington University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP).

National Cyber Security Awareness Month: What We’re Doing To Educate

Cyber Security Awareness Month gets into full swing today here in the U.S. You can read more about the launch announcement here and can join live via Facebook. As I mentioned previously, McAfee employees are taking to K-12 classrooms with the NCSA’s C-SAVE program to explain cyber security, safety and ethics to children across the Read more…

Tags: C-SAVE program, cyber security awareness, education, National Cyber Security Awareness Week, NCSA, Stop.Think.Connect

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

Welcome to Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S.  This month will be filled with activities to help us spread greater cyber security awareness to all ages of internet users.  Here in the U.S., McAfee employees will be taking to the classroom to help school-age children understand how to stay safe, secure and behave ethically Read more…

Tags: McAfee Employees, national cybersecurity awareness month

India’s Improvements To Cybersecurity

I just returned from a trip to New Delhi where I met with several government agencies and organizations working hard to secure India’s government and businesses. India is an incredibly important country as part of our global economy and around the world, as we clearly rely on India for a great deal of services today. It Read more…

Tags: Corporate Responsibility, critical infrastructure, embedded, India

Continue to Stop.Think.Connect

What a great month…and the activities aren’t over yet!  Reflecting back over Cyber Security Awareness Month, I saw many encouraging ways that security professionals are taking on this “shared responsibility” to educate.  I spent some quality time with the security executives of the Executive Women’s Forum and saw the passion the women in this organization Read more…

Tags: Consumer, Cybercrime, Public Sector, social networks, Web 2.0

What Are You Doing To STOP.THINK.CONNECT?

Welcome to Week #3 of Cyber Security Awareness Month (CSAM).  What are you doing this week to help those around you STOP.THINK.CONNECT when they go online? If you were one of our business customers at FOCUS 2010 last week, hopefully we gave you a lot of food for thought in how to keep your networks Read more…

Tags: Cybercrime, McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, national cybersecurity awareness month

Stop.Think.Connect

Welcome to the 2nd week of Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S.  where we just launched the new slogan “STOP.THINK.CONNECT”. Last Monday, I represented McAfee at the official kickoff of CSAM up in Seattle where we spent a good deal of time doing the first two of that motto. Sitting on a panel with Read more…

Tags: McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, national cybersecurity awareness month

Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month

As many of you in the U.S. know, October marks the U.S. annual Cyber Security Awareness Month.  Other countries such as the U.K., Australia and Japan hold similar events in their countries to mark the importance of online security and safety awareness. In collaboration with the National Cyber Security Alliance and as part of our Read more…

Tags: McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, national cybersecurity awareness month

Cybercrime Call to Action

Earlier this week, the alleged mastermind behind Mariposa – one of the biggest viruses we’ve seen to date – was arrested in Slovenia. The investigation leading up to his capture is a perfect indicator of what we’re up against in our fight against cybercrime. It’s also another reason why we spend so much time educating Read more…

Tags: Cybercrime, Mariposa, Operation Aurora

Celebrating Cybersuccess

You may have read about the latest success against cybercrime in the case against Innovative Marketing. It’s one of the many days that I’m proud of our McAfee Labs researchers around the world. McAfee Labs researchers frequently assist where needed, but don’t necessarily get recognized publicly. Our researchers not only deal with tracking millions of malware Read more…

Tags: Corporate Responsibility, Cybercrime, national cybersecurity awareness month, Public Sector, scareware

Upping the Ante in Australia

For those of you who have not yet heard, the Australian Parliament has spent many months researching, contemplating, and finally making recommendations on the best way to fight cybercrime. We applaud the government of Australia for taking proactive steps to curb crime, assist businesses and consumers alike in avoiding and reporting online crime, and make Read more…

Tags: Australia, Corporate Responsibility, Cybercrime, government, Initiative to Fight Cybercrime, Public Sector