McAfee Unveils Unparalleled Risk Management Solution
July 19 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
McAfee, Inc. today unveiled the world’s most comprehensive Risk
Management solution for IT Security. An industry first, the
solution combines real-time threat intelligence with global
vulnerability scanning across applications, databases and networks,
and correlates that with security countermeasures already in place,
to help organizations assess their highest priority risks. The
solution empowers organizations to focus their limited resources on
best protecting company information and taking a more proactive
approach to enterprise security.
Unlike existing point-product approaches, which require IT
Security specialists to manually correlate information, the McAfee®
Risk Management solution, consisting of McAfee® Risk Advisor 2.5,
McAfee® Vulnerability Manager 7.0 and McAfee® Vulnerability Manager
for Databases, automatically pulls information together into a
real-time risk analytics engine. This enables organizations to
fully understand their risk posture across every meaningful sector
of their IT environment including databases, web applications,
systems and networks to know precisely what is needed to optimize
their security posture.
“McAfee pioneered the risk-based approach to security
management,” said Gene Fredriksen, Global CISO with Tyco
International. “The release of their risk management solution
demonstrates continued innovation in this space and reinforces
their market leadership position. By synthesizing these core
offerings into a cohesive risk management solution, McAfee has set
the bar very high.”
A Holistic Approach to Managing Risk
“Enterprises are realizing that they can no longer rely on point
products to mitigate risk,” said Stuart McClure, senior vice
president and general manager, risk and compliance for McAfee.
“That’s because those products are not designed to work together
and do not tie the ability to identify and prioritize risks with
the ability to mitigate them. McAfee is unique in delivering a
holistic approach to managing risk that takes into account deployed
countermeasures.”
The underpinning for the McAfee Risk Management solution
consists of three products:
- McAfee Risk Advisor 2.5 –
McAfee Risk Advisor is a risk management dashboard that correlates
threat, vulnerability and countermeasure information to pinpoint
critical assets at risk. McAfee Risk Advisor enables organizations
to fully understand their risk posture across every meaningful
sector of their IT environment to know precisely what is needed to
optimize their security. Notable enhancements to McAfee Risk
Advisor 2.5 include risk scoring and advanced patch
optimization.
- McAfee Vulnerability Manager
7.0 – McAfee Vulnerability Manager is a proven vulnerability
assessment product with unrivaled accuracy, depth and breadth of
coverage. Version 7.0 adds deep web application scanning that was
designed by thought leaders in the web application security space.
With McAfee Vulnerability Manager 7.0, organizations are able to
leverage this enterprise-class tool to accurately discover and scan
web applications as part of their ongoing vulnerability assessment
practice.
- McAfee Vulnerability Manager
for Databases – McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases
automatically finds databases on the network, determines if the
latest patches have been applied, and tests for weak passwords,
default accounts, and other common vulnerabilities. This new
product comes with more than 3,000 database vulnerability checks to
deliver the most thorough database vulnerability assessment and
security-scanning capability in the market today.
When combined with the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® platform,
McAfee endpoint and network defense products, and over 90 partner
products, the McAfee Risk Management solution delivers the ability
for any-sized organization to optimize its security posture and
comply with regulatory mandates. Ultimately, it provides the means
for companies to get in control and stay in control.
“Understanding risks and vulnerabilities is essential to
achieving optimized security,” said Vivian Tero, program manager,
governance, risk and compliance (GRC) infrastructure, IDC.
“Organizations need to know precisely where they are at risk and
what they can do about it. Armed with visibility into their risk
postures, organizations can know precisely what they need to do to
mitigate risk and achieve greater compliance.”
McAfee continues to win awards for its risk and compliance
products. The McAfee® Total Protection software for Compliance
solution, a suite that includes McAfee Risk Advisor and McAfee
Vulnerability Manager, received a perfect score earning a five out
of five stars rating in SC Magazine’s Risk Management Group Test.
Calling out the suite’s strength as an integrated risk management
suite that eliminates the manual and time-consuming process of
correlating threats to critical systems at risk, the reviewer
justified the five star designation with, “Very nicely integrated
and centralized single picture of risk and risk mitigation options
across the numerous security controls deployed.”
All products are available now. For more information, please
visit the McAfee risk and compliance Web page age at
www.mcafee.com/riskmanagement.
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the
world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is
committed to relentlessly tackling the world's toughest security
challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and
services that help secure systems and networks around the world,
allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop
the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team,
McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users,
businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling
them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent
disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and
improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com
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