Gary Davis

Director of Global Consumer Product Marketing Gary is the worldwide product marketing lead for McAfee Consumer, Mobile and Small Business. At McAfee, his primary responsibilities include managing the go-to-market strategies and plans canvassing the lifecycle of McAfee's products and optimizing opportunities for growth across the consumer product portfolio. He closely follows cybersecurity news and technology topics to help educate consumers and businesses about the latest threats and the tools to help protect them. Gary is considered an online security expert frequently discussing new security threats and trends with the press. He has been interviewed by several business, security and lifestyle media, including appearances on CNBC, NBC Bay Area, ABC Bay Area News and ABC radio network; and quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, MSNBC, PC Magazine, CNET, CSO Magazine, PC World and many others. Gary is an active contributor on the McAfee Blog and Twitter, most notably on @HackingExposed and @McAfeeConsumer, and has published several security related articles. Prior to joining McAfee, he worked in marketing and product management for 17 years, including more than a decade in executive management. During this time he developed and implemented successful global strategies and plans to achieve high-revenue growth, improved profitability, and sustainedcustomer value for security, social networking, B2C and B2B companies.

2012 McAfee Threat Predictions: A look at the latest threats that could affect consumers this coming year

Each year, McAfee Labs™ looks at the trends that they’ve seen over the past 12 months to make predictions about the types of security threats they expect to see in 2012. While looking into the future can be hit or miss, looking at trends and motives can give us a good idea of what to Read more…

Tags: 2012, 2012 Security Predictions, consumer threats, McAfee, Mobile, onlinethreats

McAfee Reveals Simple Safety Tips for Securing New Internet Connected Devices

From the hottest new tablet to sleek smartphones and laptops, electronic devices are likely at the top of many consumers’ holiday wish lists this year. Many lucky recipients will immediately load personal data, contact information, photos, and entertainment files onto their new toys, eager to enjoy them right away. Not so fast! When new devices Read more…

Tags: Family Safety, internet connected devices, laptops, mobile smartphone security, mobile threats, online safety tips, secure new devices, simple safety tips, tablets

McAfee Warns Consumers of the Twelve Scams of Christmas

 ‘Tis the season for consumers to spend more time online – shopping for gifts, looking for great holiday deals on new digital gadgets, e-planning family get-togethers and of course, using online or mobile banking to make sure they can afford it all. But before logging on from a PC, Mac, or mobile device, you should Read more…

Tags: 12 Scams of Christmas, Charity Phishing Scams, Consumer, digital gadgets, Fake Anti Virus Scams, gift scams, holiday shopping, infected mobile apps, mac malware, McAfee, mobile malware, online banking, online coupon scams, online shopping, phishing scams, protect devices, scareware, screensavers, smishing, social media online scams, UPS scams

McAfee Risk and Compliance Recognized By SC Magazine

The McAfee Risk & Compliance business unit has enjoyed explosive growth that has culminated with three of our solutions being named as a Finalist in three SC Magazine Award categories as follows: McAfee Policy Auditor for Best Policy Management Application McAfee Risk Management solution for Best Vulnerability Management Tool McAfee Total Protection for Compliance for Read more…

Tags: enterprise, Mid-Market, Risk and Compliance

The McAfee Risk Management Solution

In a recent Technical Brief by Enterprise Strategy Group Principal Analyst Jon Oltsik titled, “Large Organizations are Way Behind on IT Risk Management,” he reflects in the abstract, “Without rapid IT risk management progress, many organizations remain sitting ducks for cybercrime, industrial espionage, or catastrophic denial of service attacks.” Read the entire brief on the McAfee Read more…

Tags: Risk Advisor, Risk and Compliance, Vulnerability Manager, vulnerability manager for databases

Accuracy Counts When Detecting Malware

The bane of most security assessment products is false positives. Sending security pros on a wild goose chase tied to false positives has a dramatic impact on productivity and morale. This is especially true when vetting detected malware from vulnerability scans. Keeping false positives to a minimum should be a top priority for vulnerability assessment Read more…

Tags: malware, McAfee Vulnerability Manager, Operation Aurora, Risk and Compliance

McAfee Vulnerability Manager an SC Magazine “Best Buy”

McAfee Vulnerability Manager was distinguished among several competitive products with the coveted “Five-Star” and “Best Buy” rating in the February edition of SC Magazine. In the group test, SC Magazine put ten vulnerability assessment products through roughly 50 individual criteria that were developed by SC Magazine Labs and the Center for Regional and National Security Read more…

Tags: Compliance, McAfee Vulnerability Manager, Risk and Compliance, security