McAfee's robust set of SaaS applications help employees work and collaborate without hassle

Venkat Krishnapur  
Vice President of Engineering and Managing Director, McAfee India

Preparedness to face challenges of data security: 
We, at McAfee, provide security solutions to over 97 million enterprise endpoints, which include 75% of the world’s Fortune 500 firms. For our customers, maintaining business continuity is vital, and we are well equipped to help keep their services up and running. Most of our critical teams, like engineering, R&D, customer support, operations were all equally or more productive, in our pursuit to keep our customers safe.

The best practices adopted for remote working: 
We provide a seamless employee experience in the cloud. While our business involves securing cloud services for our customers, we also take pride in and providing the best digital experience to our employees. Employees across the world are growing accustomed to this ‘work from anywhere’ phenomenon and in my opinion, this is here to stay for the long term. At McAfee India, through various initiatives, we have ensured that our employees have been taken care of mentally and physically. For this, we actively and routinely arrange engagement sessions on mental wellbeing, nutrition, ergonomics, and parenting.

Role of CISOs:
CISO has an important and expanded role in managing a company’s ‘security health’. With the prevalence of high-profile cyberattacks, putting finances and corporate reputation at stake, the top of the C-Suite is seeing the importance and realizing the value of cybersecurity. Today, the CEO/Board would prefer to evaluate and make decisions related to Information Security themselves. Additionally, the elevated structure enables the CISO to be operationally more efficient and is now held accountable directly by the board/CEO. The role is not just operational anymore because it impacts the reputation and the business directly – and hence the elevation.