NETWORK ASSOCIATES LAUNCHES NEW PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ORGANIZATION
Network Associates Expert Services Organization Delivers Expert Technical Services for Network Optimization and Security
Santa Clara, October 15, 2002 - Network Associates, Inc. (NYSE: NET) today introduced Network Associates Expert Services, a new strategic organization created to offer customers comprehensive network and security consulting and educational services. The new services organization solidifies Network Associates' position as the leader in integrated security and network management through the offering of services and courses that provide customers with strategic direction to accomplish their network and security objectives.
"As a leading health care provider, we realize that secure network communications throughout our organization helps us to successfully deliver on our mission, to improve the health and well-being of a diverse community," said James Kuhn, CIO at Henry Ford Health System. "We are confident in the expertise of Network Associates' consultants who have helped us define and develop a security strategy that will provide network availability, increase our efficiency and lower operational costs effectively, across our organization."
Network Associates Expert Services brings together veteran industry expertise from the Sniffer Technologies and McAfee Security product lines into one strengthened unified organization poised to address the growing convergence of network and security management. Centralizing industry, product, and education knowledge in network optimization and security, the Expert Services organization is focused on providing enterprise customers with professional consulting services and hands-on educational courses to ensure successful strategy and execution for network and security objectives.
"Today's network and security problems cannot be solved by product alone," said Rick Brown, senior vice president of Network Associates Expert Services worldwide. "By strongly integrating services into our solution offerings, Network Associates is providing our customers with the ability to strategically tackle the issues of security and network management. We accomplish this through integrating the essential elements of expert people, workable process, strong policy, and industry leading product into a complete Network Associates solution."
Network Associates Expert Services offerings are designed to address all phases of network and security management, from the assessment, design, and deployment cycle to the ongoing efforts of training staff and responding to emergencies as they occur. The services are delivered by three practices within Network Associates Expert Services that are organized by their core competency.
Expert Network Services.
The Expert Network Services consulting group leverages veteran technical expertise to relate granular network problems to larger networking issues. Expert Network Services offers packaged and custom consulting engagements for network assessment, network design, product deployment, and network downtime emergency response. Expert Network Services' consultants are experts in fault isolation and performance management and have a thorough knowledge of the inter-relationship of network instrumentation, design, and traffic. This expertise and understanding provides our customers with the expertise required to rapidly resolve network performance, availability, and security issues and while facing increased complexity of communications.
Expert Security Services.
Expert Security Services provides objective expert assistance in all phases of security program management, from design and assessment to technology deployment and emergency response. With increased dependence on information technology and the rapid advancement of attack techniques, Expert Security Services solutions such as assessing security posture, deploying security technologies, adopting workable security policies, and effectively responding to virus outbreaks and security breaches are essential to protect business.
Expert Educational Services.
Expert Educational Services provides hands-on training courses for network management, security, and anti-virus technology. Having trained over 80,000 professionals to date, Expert Educational Services offers courses through Sniffer University and McAfee University in over seventy-five locations around the globe. Expert Educational Services also offers the industry recognized Sniffer Certification Program that enables students to further their professional development and assures employers that their staff has the expertise required to effectively manage the performance of the network.
Network Associates Expert Services is Network Associates' professional services and educational organization. Network Associates Expert Services delivers strategic solutions to the complex problems facing network and security management. For additional information on Network Associates' Expert Services, go to http://nai.com/naicommon/services/default.asp or call 972-308-9960.
About Network Associates:
With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. is a leading supplier of network security and availability solutions. Network Associates is comprised of three product groups: McAfee Security, delivering world-class anti-virus and security products; Sniffer Technologies, a leader in network availability and system security; and Magic Solutions, a leader in innovative service management solutions. For more information, Network Associates can be reached at 972-308-9960 or on the Internet at http://www.networkassociates.com.
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