McAfee and Riverbed Expand Partnership to Provide Integrated Security and WAN Optimization in One Appliance

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) and Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD), the IT performance company, today announced an expansion of their partnership to now deliver Web 2.0 security capabilities on the Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP). This partnership underscores the two companies’ commitment to delivering best-of-breed, comprehensive security coupled with wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions for distributed enterprises. The McAfee® Web Gateway solution delivers comprehensive security for all Web 2.0 traffic, and coupled with the award-winning Riverbed Steelhead® appliance, enables a superior level of proactive Web 2.0 protection from headquarters to branch offices.

The RSP is a virtualized, extensible data services platform integrated with the Steelhead appliance hardware that allows customers to deploy multiple best-of-breed edge services that formerly required dedicated servers. Customers can deploy virtualized applications, such as McAfee Web Gateway Security, directly on the RSP to further minimize the hardware infrastructure footprint at the branch office, thereby reducing operational overhead. The new joint solution complements the existing McAfee® Firewall Enterprise software, which is currently available on the RSP. By leveraging the best-of-breed solutions from McAfee and Riverbed in a single appliance, enterprises are able to deliver accelerated data and application access to users while protecting critical information and infrastructure from security threats.

The consumerization of IT has leveraged the popularity of Web 2.0 applications in the enterprise, and social networking applications have increasingly become a primary component of mainstream marketing and sales initiatives. Social media applications, such as Facebook and Twitter, provide a great service to marketing efforts, but are also a new source of targeted attacks by cybercriminals looking to infiltrate corporate systems. Preventing intellectual property leaks via social media is also a major concern among organizations, especially with the lack of visibility and control over multiple remote offices. The joining of forces between the leading WAN optimization provider and the world’s largest dedicated security company addresses the need for advanced Web 2.0 security, by providing customers with intent analysis, URL filtering, McAfee anti-virus, anti-malware protection and WAN optimization to protect Web 2.0 experiences throughout the organization, regardless of location.

“Organizations realize that Web 2.0 is important, but often security measures do not match the growth rate at which employees are using these applications,” said David Scholtz, senior vice president of worldwide strategic alliances at McAfee. “To prevent malicious Web attacks and data leakage, organizations need a new level of control and by adding McAfee Web Gateway to the Riverbed and McAfee Enterprise Firewall solution, customers now have the most comprehensive security solution in a WAN optimization platform available.”

“Riverbed enables its customers to consolidate edge services at the branch office, helping organizations to reduce the IT footprint in the branch, simplify IT management and reduce costs while still delivering LAN-like application performance to distributed employees,” said Venugopal Pai, vice president of global alliances at Riverbed. “By running McAfee Web Gateway security on the RSP, enterprises experience these benefits along with the ability to proactively protect themselves against the threats that attack systems via social media and other Web 2.0 applications.”

By scanning a Web page’s active content, McAfee Web Gateway security emulates and understands the behavior and uses predictive modeling to proactively protect against zero-day and targeted attacks as they occur. The McAfee and Riverbed partnership enables Web experiences throughout the organization to be more:

Productive-- The solution provides granular control over how and where Web applications are used
Secure-- Scans outbound requests and posts along with all inbound traffic
Efficient-- Improves application performance and reduces bandwidth congestion

For a demonstration of the capabilities of the McAfee Web Gateway Security Solution, register for the October 13 webinar at www.mcafee.com/networkwebinars

Availability

The solution is globally available today.

About McAfee, Inc.

McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. Backed by unrivaled Global Threat Intelligence, 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. McAfee secures your digital world. http://www.mcafee.com

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, and statements relating to Riverbed’s ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to compete in our industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed’s business are set forth in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on July 30, 2010. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.

About Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the IT performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.

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