Crossbeam and McAfee Partner to Deliver Security Solutions to Government and Large Enterprises
October 11 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
FOCUS 10 Security Conference – Crossbeam Systems and
McAfee today announced at FOCUS 10 a strategic partnership that
enables a new security solution combining the McAfee
next-generation firewall, McAfee® Firewall Enterprise, with
Crossbeam’s latest X-Series family of network security
platforms.
Announced last week, the Crossbeam X-Series family enables
McAfee Firewall Enterprise to deliver carrier-class performance –
with speeds up to 40 Gbps of inspected application traffic
throughput – scalability and built-in redundancy that large
enterprises and carriers need to secure their networks.
Demonstrations of the Crossbeam-McAfee solution can be seen at
Crossbeam’s booth, #160.
“The Crossbeam-McAfee partnership will improve options for
customers at the high end of the market who are looking for
high-performance, manageable security solutions that can scale with
their networks,” said Chris Christiansen, program vice president,
Security Products and Services at IDC. “Firewalls combining
intrusion prevention, application awareness and other network
security capabilities that can address the changing nature of
Web-based communications are in demand, especially as organizations
move to cloud-based computing environments. The Crossbeam-McAfee
solution delivers these firewall capabilities on a platform that’s
proven to perform within these networks.”
The McAfee next-generation firewall provides unprecedented
visibility into both external and internal threats and
vulnerabilities, protecting customers more efficiently and allowing
them to safely support the rapid growth in Web-based applications
on their networks with confidence and compliance. McAfee Firewall
Enterprise now protects 15,000 networks around the world, including
some of the most ultra-secure government organizations and seven of
the top 10 financial institutions.
With McAfee running on Crossbeam’s X-Series, customers achieve
cost-reduction and consolidation goals, while improving overall
security posture. The X-Series allows organizations to consolidate
security appliances and related network devices onto a single
high-performance chassis, slashing total cost of ownership by as
much as 70 percent when compared to other options and approaches on
the market today.
“The widespread adoption of Web 2.0, social networking, smart
mobile devices and other Web-based technologies has significantly
increased the level of risk for organizations,” said Rees Johnson,
senior vice president and general manager for Network Security of
McAfee. “By partnering with Crossbeam, McAfee is meeting the
growing demand among government, large enterprises and carriers to
protect against these threats, and to reduce the cost and
complexity of their security infrastructures.”
The ongoing proliferation of Web threats has caused significant
demand for next-generation firewalls. Gartner believes that “less
than 1 percent of Internet connections today are secured using
next-generation firewalls (NGFWs). We believe that by year-end 2014
this will rise to 35 percent of the installed base, with 60% of new
purchases being NGFWs.” 1
“Crossbeam’s strategy from the beginning has been to enable
customers to run their preferred security applications on open
platforms that can handle the demands of any size network,“ said
Jim Freeze, chief marketing officer of Crossbeam. “By partnering
with McAfee, we’re giving our customers even more flexibility to
choose their preferred best-of-breed solutions and deploy them on
the industry’s most proven family of next-generation network
security platforms.”
To speak to a McAfee or Crossbeam executive or receive a
demonstration of the combined solution at FOCUS 10, please contact
Sharon Dratch, (781) 418-2425, sdratch@daviesmurphy.com or Ally
Zwahlen, (925) 207-4573, ally_zwahlen@mcafee.com.
1 John Pescatore and Greg Young, “Defining the Next-Generation
Firewall,” Gartner, 12 October 2009
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
About Crossbeam
Crossbeam Systems®, Inc. offers a proven approach to deploying
network security that meets the extreme performance, scalability
and reliability demands of large enterprises, service providers and
government agencies. Its leading X-Series security platform offers
an open, high-performance architecture that easily provisions and
scales multiple best-in-class security applications to meet the
ever-changing threat landscape. Companies rely on Crossbeam to
intelligently manage risk, accelerate and maintain compliance, and
protect their businesses from evolving threats. Crossbeam is
headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., and has offices in Europe,
Latin America and Asia Pacific. More information is available at
www.crossbeam.com.
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Crossbeam Systems, Inc. All other company, product or service names
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