FOCUS 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), today unveiled its
“Security Connected” initiative, enabling partners, developers and
customers to apply a more intelligent, effective and sustainable
approach to securing digital information. As part of its Security
Connected initiative, McAfee is announcing the first two of four
new connected security platforms, McAfee Endpoint Security 9 and
McAfee Security Management 5.
With threats sharply on the rise in both quantity and
complexity, an uncertain economic environment, and an insatiable
desire to deploy new, more competitive computing models, IT
organizations can no longer sustain the traditional model of
tacking on new security products for every new threat. By
connecting mobile with endpoint security, network security, content
security, and the cloud, McAfee is coordinating security defenses
to enable businesses to be more agile. McAfee offers organizations
correlated and comprehensive intelligence which in turn
dramatically reduces risk, enhances their security posture, helps
meet compliance regulations, and drives up operational
efficiencies.
Security too often is being driven from different silos within
businesses - from mobile devices, PCs, and tablets, to
mission-critical networks, servers, hosted applications, cloud
services, virtual machines, and databases - bringing dozens or
hundreds of different security technologies and disparate
management paradigms with them. More often than not, there is no
correlation or integration making security very expensive,
inflexible and ineffective to manage and maintain. Today,
businesses require more than just security technologies, they need
integrated intelligent security that provides a global view of
threats, vulnerabilities, and the countermeasures to address them.
Businesses are moving from securing components to understanding and
measuring the security of a business as a whole.
“The IT landscape is rapidly changing,” said Chris Christiansen,
vice president, security products and services at IDC.
“Virtualization of servers and endpoints, shifting of data and
services to the cloud, and the consumerization of IT is creating
new holes in previously protected systems and networks. This is a
fundamental shift from even just a few years ago when the
bifurcation points between business and personal, outside and
inside, and us and them was more visible.”
Enabling Businesses Through Security
By taking a connected approach, McAfee is moving security from a
perceived business inhibitor to a true business enabler. Applying
“Security Connected” principles and vision, IT professionals can
more confidently say “yes” to new applications and approaches.
McAfee Security Connected components include:
- Proactive security through
built-in integration and intelligence
- Global Threat Intelligence:
Unmatched threat research and content capability to deliver
predictive threat analysis, reputational scoring, cloud delivery
and intelligence in depth to power connected security
technologies.
- Broad portfolio of
countermeasures: Integrated security for PCs, Mac, smartphones,
tablets, storage, embedded, silicon, network perimeter, datacenter,
web gateways, mail security, content, and so on with a choice of on
premise, SaaS, or hybrid delivery models.
- Intelligent Security Management
Platform: Integrating disparate solutions and extending beyond
a simple reporting dashboard to a rational, informed, scalable and
situationally aware security management interface
- Predictive security solutions
that can proactively find and protect against vulnerabilities,
target and predict threats based on policies and events
- Partner Ecosystem: Delivering
services through an open ecosystem of partners to ensure customers
can take full advantage of the latest technology from both McAfee
and our extensive list of ecosystem partners.
- McAfee Connected: program is
aimed at helping partners worldwide ensure product and service
compatibility with McAfee solutions. The program’s testing process
ensures that the third-party hardware, software and services that
customers choose perform well, and are compatible with, McAfee
technology.
“Disjointed point products simply don’t work for today’s
businesses,” said George Kurtz, chief technology officer, McAfee,
Inc. “Security is now mission-critical and strategic to the
business. It needs to be connected and correlated, with shared
intelligence, and centrally managed. Products still need to be
best-of-breed, without trading off quality, and IT needs to be
empowered to say ‘yes’ to data and applications, at any time, on
any device, from any location.”
McAfee believes that the changes in business today will require
the move from simply securing components, to understanding and
measuring security more holistically. Security needs have morphed
and now require a more connected approach. To address this
requirement, McAfee has introduced two new platform offerings to
advance its “Security Connected” vision and initiative: McAfee
Endpoint Security 9 and McAfee Security Management 5.
McAfee Endpoint Security 9
Provides protection anywhere, anytime on any device including
desktops, servers, virtual machines, mobile devices and embedded
systems. With its new integrated Endpoint Security platform, McAfee
now delivers “Security Connected” for the full range of traditional
and emerging endpoints to help organizations keep up with the
increasingly complex IT environment.
McAfee Security Management 5
A new comprehensive centralized management platform that
delivers proactive risk management, integration with business
operations, and coordinated security defenses. It provides a full
risk profile across multiple security layers, vendors, products and
solutions resulting in a dramatically enhanced security posture,
lower operational costs and a “Security Connected” approach to
understanding the threat landscape and managing business risk.
To learn more about McAfee Security Connected, visit
www.mcafee.com/securityconnected.
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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Customer Quotes
McAfee Endpoint Security Platform:
“One of the major benefits of consolidating our infrastructure
on McAfee was the ability for us to streamline and consolidate our
security vendors to drive lower total cost of ownership as well as
improved our overall protection. Our security infrastructure has
become more efficient and effective due to the product integration,
single management platform and global threat intelligence that
McAfee consistently delivers.”
-- Brad Blake, chief technology officer, Boston Medical
Center
“Technology drivers such as virtualization, consumerization of
IT, and SaaS sourced solutions, have forced us to re-think our
approach to risk management and operational security. McAfee’s
solution provides the tools we need to better understand the threat
landscape, our vulnerabilities, and the relevant countermeasures,
translating to more effective risk management. It allows easier
integration of new technologies to support IT initiatives and drive
business results.”
-- Stephen Polinsky - Manager, IT Governance, Express
“To date, the cumulative stacking of security software has had a
substantial negative impact on computer performance. Malware
scanning both on-access and on-demand have caused measurable
impacts for which we receive customer complaints. Efforts are
ongoing to continually try to tune the VirusScan product. McAfee is
working to improve this issue. VirusScan 8.8 has shown dramatic
improvements in our initial testing.
The load placed on the system for malware scanning has been
substantially reduced which will translate to happier users and
less help desk calls.”
-- Howard Bullock, senior IT business systems analyst, Tyco
Electronics
McAfee Security Management Platform:
“The McAfee Security Platform takes the drama and trauma out of
security management. With McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator we know where
we're covered, when to make changes, and how to make them
quickly.”
-- Mike Emerson, director of security, Citrix
“Our risk posture requires the deployment of security
technologies in depth across a variety of endpoints and throughout
the enterprise, and we need to achieve this having no impact on our
critical business processes. Responsive, efficient, and centralized
management across layered security is a critical component of our
business model, and McAfee’s comprehensive endpoint solution and
centralized management is an excellent fit for our needs.”
-- Stephen Polinsky, manager, IT Governance at Express
“At Tyco, managing security centrally is critical to automating
processes and enabling the business. The consumerization of IT,
reliance on virtualized systems, new Web 2.0 threats and more
mobile devices within the business have forced us to rethink our
approach to security. With McAfee Security Management we understand
the threat landscape, where we are vulnerable and what
countermeasures are in place so we are able to confidently say yes
to new IT initiatives that will drive business results.”
-- Eugene Fredriksen, global information security officer, Tyco
International
McAfee Global Threat Intelligence:
“With new cyber threats coming at our customers from every
angle, we need to arm them with the latest protection available.
With McAfee Global Threat Intelligence integrated into our
offerings, we can predict what's next and reduce our customers'
exposure.”
-- Dave Wilson, manager of data security at Paetec
“McAfee Global Threat Intelligence gives my McAfee products
information on sources of threats before they are even recognized
as threats in other areas. This greatly reduces our exposure.”
-- Robert Boenne, network engineer, Teachers Credit Union
Security Innovation Alliance Partner
Quotes
“Customers are looking for a more complete view of all
enterprise IT activity across both on-premise and cloud
environments. McAfee's open approach to Security Management enables
ArcSight's Enterprise Threat and Risk Management (ETMR) platform to
better assess internal and external risks and reduce response
times. We believe our joint customers benefit from better
visibility of real-time events, better context for risk assessment
and better continuity, resulting in more efficient response and
problem resolution.”
-- Jeff Scheel, Senior Vice President, Business Development,
ArcSight
“McAfee's open approach to security management, and partnering
approach to deliver end-to-end customer solutions, is a unique
one-two punch in the industry. The new security mandate is to
manage risk in real-time. It requires merging Threat and Compliance
information from physical and virtualized environments into a
unified data-to-dashboard business-risk view. Agiliance is pleased
to introduce our McAfee Compatible RiskVision connector for McAfee
ePO, which pulls technical asset and compliance data and pushes
risk and compliance summary data, giving customers a continuously
true risk posture to make effective investments and manage
performance.”
-- Arti Raman, VP of Product and Alliances, Agiliance
“Correlating the massive amount of security information and
events enables faster identification of security breaches and more
effective incident response. McAfee's open approach to Security
Management enables NitroSecurity to deliver increased levels of
information within our NitroView product. Customers experience
optimal security, reduced risk and a huge competitive advantage in
their industry.”
-- Doug Bailey, EVP, NitroSecurity
“Security executives need to understand how all of their various
defenses combine into their overall security posture. By
integrating with McAfee's Security Management Platform, RedSeal
software delivers enterprise-wide firewall management, ensures
network-security compliance with standards such as PCI, NERC CIP
and FISMA, and enables risk-driven vulnerability remediation.”
-- Steve Dauber, VP of Marketing, RedSeal Systems, Inc.
“Correlating security information and events accelerates
incident response, reduces risk, and focuses limited IT resources.
McAfee's open approach to Security Management enables partners like
LogRhythm to deliver new levels of information and insight through
our leading SIEM 2.0 solution, giving our mutual customers
optimized security and significant competitive advantage in their
industry.”
-- Mike Reagan, Vice President of Marketing & Business
Development, LogRhythm, Inc.
“Customers are looking for better ways to integrate security
into their core business processes in order to reduce risk and cost
through automation. Utilizing new API's from McAfee's Security
Management Platform, LogLogic is now able to integrate security
events into the Business Service Management system of our joint
customers, providing greater visibility and control.”
-- Bill Roth, EVP, LogLogic
“Today’s organizations need to quickly and easily detect and
protect against stealth, emerging cyberattacks from APT and other
malware. Together, HBGary Digital DNA™ with McAfee ePolicy
Orchestrator® (ePO™) offers behavioral malware detection for
significantly better security against both zero-day and targeted
attacks. This integrated, defense-indepth security approach is
critical to successfully combating unknown threats.”
-- Penny Leavy, President, HBGary
“From the server to the endpoint, and into the cloud,
organizations are looking for ways to simplify and automate
security across their environment. By integrating with McAfee's ePO
Platform, Centrify enables IT security and help desk teams to
manage and secure Mac systems in the same way they manage their
Microsoft Windows PCs to reduce IT costs and provide a better
experience for users.”
-- Frank Cabri, VP of Marketing, Centrify
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