McAfee plans to become leader in social engineering security

Charlee Gothard
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"Five year plan" also sees industry-first printer protection with Xerox

McAfee Data Protection has pledged to invest heavily in social engineering and so-called ‘wetware' (meaning human-focused) technologies in order to protect users from a continual increase in social...

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