McAfee White Paper Sample

Doing business outside national borders is a necessary competitive tactic for many companies and one that requires broad sharing and storing of your most valuable assets—intellectual property (IP) and sensitive data. In a 2009 report on the risks of doing business globally, researchers report that $12 million of an average company’s sensitive information resides abroad.1 This data is premium currency for cyberthieves and financially desperate or laid-off employees. It is at risk because of a lack of security standards found in some countries as well as from inconsistent security policies found among your own employees and partners.

In the report, Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information, McAfee surveyed senior IT administrators from 1,000 large organizations and dozens of security and business experts to better understand the global threats to data. From these respondents, McAfee formed the global Cybersecurity Expert Council to make recommendations on how to meet the challenges associated with data that travels throughout the world. The council created a list of best practices, which, combined with informed, state-of-the-art technology, can go a long way toward safeguarding data.