The Connected Home – Introducing Little Red Boxes

This will be old news to those of you who took the time to visit McAfee Focus 2012 , but for the rest – my team took www.mcafee.com/activate the opportunity to introduce the concept of the McAfee “Little Red Box” in the Innovation roadshow.It’s a prototype project www.mcafee/activate that my team has been working www.mcafee.com/activate product key on for some time now, and www.mcafee.com/activate download will go some way to answer the need to protect all the connected devices in your home. 

My house is the classic connected home – I have the usual assortment of PCs and laptops that built up over the years, some relegated  www.mcafee/activate to the role of photo frame, others scattered around for occasional browsing and email use. There’s also www.mcafee.com/activate the odd real photo frame (wirelessly connected to a media server of course), and on that topic mcafee.com/activate product key, numerous and www.mcafee.com/activate product key www.mcafee.com/activate download other gaming consoles that my family enjoy.

If that wasn’t enough IP www.mcafee.com/activate product key connected equipment, you can add into the www.mcafee/activate mix more than one of every www.mcafee.com/activate download Apple device made – iPads, iPhones, Apple TV’s, even an Apple Mini mcafee.com/activate product key, oh and a few Samsung www.mcafee.com/activate internet connected TVs as well.

I often jest that I have an internet-toaster www.mcafee.com/activate, but I don’t. My wife thought mcafee.com/activate product key about buying an internet-fridge, but the fact it didn’t support www.mcafee.com/activate product key wireless www.mcafee.com/activate download put her off www.mcafee/activate.

I must be forgetting something, as my router DNS server regularly gets maxed out – oh yes, I have   throughout the house as well www.mcafee/activate, and also a few Apple Airport Express wireless repeaters www.mcafee.com/activate download.

You don’t come to my place if you’re sensitive to EMF…

Why am I bringing this up? Because of all these devices www.mcafee.com/activate product key, most are what we call Closed OS – mcafee.com/activate product key there’s no way McAfee (or any other security company) will ever be able to sell you security software to install on your Sonos media player – but that little white box is a high powered Linux device, it’s as able to be a ‘bot or spam gateway www.mcafee/activate as any other Linux laptop. And of course,   www.mcafee.com/activate Apple don’t let anyone write security software for iOS, neither do Samsung allow us to put security software on www.mcafee.com/activate download their TVs, or Sony/Microsoft on their consoles..

So – back to the Little Red Box.  Imagine a simple device mcafee.com/activate product key which you plug into your wireless router, which instantly www.mcafee.com/activate provides protection for all www.mcafee/activate devices in your home.

Simple as that – plug it in, power it up, and with zero configuration, it will make sure nothing in your house participates www.mcafee.com/activate product key in spam or botnets, that www.mcafee/activate nothing can access known bad web sites or servers www.mcafee.com/activate, and that your www.mcafee.com/activate download whole family is protected mcafee.com/activate product key from inappropriate web  content.

I’ve thought how to expand on that description – but that’s about it – that’s what the Little Red Box does. Technically it’s www.mcafee.com/activate commandeering your network www.mcafee/activate, filtering all DNS and web requests, watching www.mcafee.com/activate product key for activities which could be indications mcafee.com/activate product key of malicious attack www.mcafee.com/activate download, and applying the mass knowledge within thesystem to every connected device.