McAfee and Riverbed Expand Partnership to Provide Integrated Security and WAN Optimization in One Appliance
September 28 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
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
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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.
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