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McAfee, Inc (NYSE: MFE) maakt vandaag haar nieuwe partnerprogramma, McAfee Connected bekend. Dit nieuwe wereldwijde partnerprogramma zorgt ervoor dat partners gemakkelijk technische producten en diensten compatibel kunnen maken met op McAfee-gebaseerde oplossingen. Hierdoor kunnen services, hardware en software van derden beter presteren. Klanten van McAfee kunnen met deze oplossing kosten besparen op het gebied van test-, proces- en progamma management.
Als onderdeel van het McAfee Connected initiatief kondigt het bedrijf twee nieuwe beveiligingsplatforms aan: McAfee Endpoint Security 9 en McAfee Security Management 5.
Meer informatie over het McAfee Connected initiatief en de beveiligingsplatforms kun u vinden in de onderstaande Engelstalige persberichten.
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MCAFEE, INC. UNVEILS NEW PARTNER PROGRAM DESIGNED TO ENABLE TECHNICAL PRODUCT COMPATIBILITY AND COST SAVINGS
McAfee Connected Partner Program Increases Customers’ Solution Confidence
Amsterdam – Oct. 12, 2010– McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced McAfee Connected, a new technology partner program aimed at helping partners worldwide ensure product and service compatibility with McAfee-based 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. Customers can enjoy reduced testing costs, simplified purchase cycles, and increased solution confidence as a result of this new test process and program.
Today’s program announcement reinforces the McAfee Security Connected strategy, enabling partners, developers and customers to apply a more intelligent, effective and sustainable approach to securing digital information. Enterprise customers buy products that they know will interoperate with their existing IT infrastructures. McAfee Connected establishes an ecosystem of compatibility-tested partner products that extend the value of customers’ McAfee-based solutions. It allows independent software vendors and service providers to self-certify their products, solutions, and services as compatible with McAfee technology and provides assurance to customers that enterprise solutions have been tested for compatibility.
“Choosing hardware and software is a process fraught with difficult decisions that can have very expensive consequences,” said Gerhard Watzinger, executive vice president of Corporate Strategy for McAfee. “When customers and prospects see that solutions are part of McAfee Connected, they’re able to quickly and easily choose technology that is proven to enhance their McAfee-based deployments. This program, which reinforces the McAfee’s connected security model, can save customers time and money, and allows for additional confidence as it relates to purchasing decisions.”
While the program has been rolled out globally, the initial focus of McAfee Connected is security management in virtual environments. In the coming months we will add other McAfee-based security solutions to the program. McAfee is inviting independent software vendors, developer organizations, and professional and managed services organizations to apply for partnership in McAfee Connected. This program is designed to support partners with a set of clearly defined processes, tools, and co-branding opportunities. For more information about McAfee Connected, please visit:
www.mcafee.com/mcafeeconnected
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MCAFEE, INC. UNVEILS VISION FOR NEXT GENERATION
SECURITY SOLUTIONS
McAfee “Security Connected” Initiative Driven by Consumerization of IT, Virtualization Deployments, Web 2.0 Threats and Increased Mobility within Businesses
Amsterdam – Oct. 12, 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 - bring 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, Smartphone’s, 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.
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MCAFEE, INC. ENDPOINT SECURITY PLATFORM 9 SECURELY MANAGES ANY ENTERPRISE-CONNECTED DEVICE
Offers Integrated Protection, Optimized Virtualization Security and Enables Consumerization of IT
Amsterdam – Oct. 12, 2010– McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), today announced as part of its “Security Connected” initiative, the industry’s broadest endpoint security solution, uniquely integrated into a single management platform to keep organizations one step ahead. McAfee Endpoint Security 9 provides strong endpoint and data protection for any device, to secure corporate assets with best-in-class security without impeding critical systems and processes.
Today businesses face an increasingly complex IT agenda. Often organizations have disparate layers of security, disconnected security management processes and a multitude of corporate and employee-owned devices to manage and protect as well as securing physical and virtual environments. IT struggles with balancing protection and enabling the business. To address this challenge McAfee offers companies comprehensive protection for desktops, laptops, tablets, servers, storage, virtual machines, mobile and embedded systems, specifically optimized for each of these environments.
“The McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator security management platform allows us to connect the different parts of McAfee security technologies to make more intelligent decisions about managing our security which ultimately improves our protection across our infrastructure,” said Eugene Fredriksen, Global Information Security Officer, at Tyco International. “The solutions from McAfee make it an easy choice to lock down our environment.”
McAfee Endpoint Security Platform Key New Features and Benefits
Organizations continue to face a “perfect storm” characterized by escalating attacks and having to manage increasingly complex IT environments. Organization must move at the speed of business, while IT security budgets have remained relatively flat. Consequently, many organizations deploy security solutions from multiple vendors, which increases the cost of security and negatively impacts effectiveness. McAfee Endpoint Security Platform 9 delivers “faster-time-to-protection” through intelligent connected security, allowing businesses to experience the following benefits:
• Securely Enable the Consumerization of IT: Smartphones and tablets are becoming indispensible productivity work tools. IT organizations are also being pressured to allow employee owned laptops and home PCs to access corporate networks. As a result, many organizations are facing increased demand to provide greater access to corporate networks through handheld devices. McAfee® Enterprise Mobility Management supports platforms like Apple iOS and Android, empowering organizations to say “yes” to the Consumerization of IT while ensuring secure and easy access to corporate data and business applications. McAfee delivers the industry’s most complete range of integrated and centrally managed data protection solutions, extending from the enterprise data center to desktops, laptops, USB devices, smartphones and tablets - to empower the mobile enterprise.
• Safely Unleash Virtualization at Full Power: While traditional security solutions can limit virtualization deployments, McAfee provides optimized security solutions specifically designed for virtual environments. McAfee Management Optimized for Virtualized Environments AntiVirus (MOVE AV) improves virtual machine density and performance by offloading security functions like AV scanning. Through a unified management platform for seamless security and management control across virtual and physical environments, McAfee is enabling organizations to safely unleash virtualization at full power and maximum density.
• Optimized Security Performance: The integrated McAfee Endpoint Security solutions delivers stronger protection for lower cost allowing customers to realize optimized security performance. On average companies who have deployed McAfee-based integrated endpoint security solutions demonstrated a 21% improvement in total cost of ownership compared to companies not using McAfee
[1]. The new release of McAfee® VirusScan® Enterprise software delivers optimized security with significant system performance improvements
[2], including:
? 83 faster on-access scanning
? 78% faster on-demand scanning
? 38% less memory requirements
For more information about McAfee Endpoint Security visit
www.mcafee.com/endpointsecurity.
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MCAFEE, INC. SECURITY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM PROVIDES BUSINESSES WITH PROACTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT
Features New Version of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Platform and Proactive Risk Management Combined with Situational Awareness and Cloud Based Global Threat Intelligence
Amsterdam – Oct. 12, 2010 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), today announced as part of its “Security Connected” initiative, the industry’s most comprehensive management platform which delivers proactive risk management, integrated business operations, and coordinated security defenses. McAfee Security Management 5 provides a unified monitoring, management, and reporting system that scales to any-sized organization and ensures all endpoints, networks and content are secure.
Businesses’ security purchases today are mostly tactical, creating a patchwork of independent security products that are separately managed. Threats are accelerating at a rate that far surpasses the existing approach to managing multiple products and layers of security independently. In order to effectively stay ahead of security threats, companies must be able to view all risks associated with mobile devices via centralized view.
“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,” said Stephen Polinsky, manager, IT Governance, Express. 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.”
McAfee Security Management 5 Overview:
Application Enablement: New interfaces and Software Development Kits (SDK’s) provide an open platform for companies, developers, and partners to integrate centralized security management into existing business processes. McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® platform now offers a Web API that enables customers and partners to integrate security operations into change and systems management frameworks. A new version of McAfee® Risk Advisor includes a SDK that enables rapid integration of new security countermeasures - broadening the risk profile view and reducing operational costs. In support of this new SDK, McAfee is also announcing McAfee Application Control as a newly recognized countermeasure within McAfee Risk Advisor.
Shared Intelligence: Provides coordinated defenses across security layers so that endpoints, networks, email, web, and data layers work together to minimize or eliminate security attacks. McAfee has integrated its Global Threat Intelligence across its broad portfolio of products, delivering a shared threat intelligence model. McAfee has developed game-changing enhancements – such as the evolution of its reputation services and use of the cloud to hunt for threats proactively. As an example, McAfee® Host Intrusion Prevention is integrated with file and network connection reputation intelligence enabling customers to identify and drop suspicious network connections. McAfee has also ported its threat intelligence to the iPhone and iPad enabling IT security professionals to have real-time access to threat information wherever and whenever they need it.
Unified Management: McAfee Security Management can administer the security of any device, data, network, application, or database across security implementations that range from hosted/Saas to on-premises as well as a hybrid and virtual and physical environments. McAfee recently announced the McAfee Management for Optimized Virtualized Environments (MOVE) platform providing advanced endpoint protection for virtualized systems. Due to the dynamic nature of virtual environment, the McAfee MOVE platform also includes the automated ability for security management policies to follow the virtual host they are associated with regardless of where it is located and how often it is moved.
Situational Awareness: Allows businesses to monitor, manage and report on metrics to reduce risk, focus security efforts and investments, and reduce costs. On the SaaS Platform, McAfee provides automatic asset discovery and synchronization through integration with Microsoft Active Directory that eliminates manual asset entry and out-of-sync security policies. McAfee ePO also adds the ability to create Situational Policy Assignments – logical groupings of policies that security administrators can apply to assets based on business or security posture need. The new version of McAfee Risk Advisor includes selective threat and asset analysis to display risk profiles for sub-groups like specific departments or geographies - giving organizations the ability to increase threat detection and reduce response time.
For more information about the McAfee Security Management platform visit
www.mcafee.com/securitymanagement.
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About McAfee
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.
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--McAfee Connected Partner Quotes--
“Comprehensive endpoint protection is a requirement for all enterprises. However, in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment, traditional Anti-virus reduces the number of desktops per server, degrades performance and ultimately increases the network, storage and server infrastructure costs,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, CEO of Atlantis Computing. “Atlantis Computing is joining the McAfee Connected program to ensure compatibility with MOVE AV. To help customers deploy VDI at a lower cost per desktop, with greater density and without compromising performance, Atlantis ILIO has integrated with MOVE AV to optimize how VDI desktops running AV interact with storage.”
“AppSense user virtualization solutions provide a seamless user experience across multiple desktop and application delivery platforms,” said David Roussain, VP business development at AppSense. “AppSense is pleased to join the McAfee Connected program to provide pre-tested user-layer security for both physical and virtual desktops, ensuring users receive a secure, personal and seamless working experience across an increasingly mobile, multi-platform desktop user environment.”
“Virtualization is revolutionizing the data center, introducing significant changes to enterprise security and compliance,” said Tamar Newberger, Vice President of Marketing at Catbird. “As the only virtualization security tool certified on ePO today, we are pleased to build on our joint success with additional interoperability with McAfee. The McAfee Connected program allows us to validate performance and compatibility between Catbird and McAfee technology to extend customer protection so that we are better able to secure virtual environments.”
“Virtualization goes far beyond just consolidating servers. It’s also about powering the cloud, enabling online collaboration from anywhere, and taking desktop computing to an entirely new level. Our participation in the McAfee Connected Partner Program helps Citrix deliver increased value to our customers by ensuring McAfee MOVE AV 1.5 and Citrix virtualization solutions perform well together,” said Garry Olah, Vice President of Business Development at Citrix. “Citrix virtualization, networking and cloud technologies radically simplify computing for millions of users, to deliver IT as an on-demand service that enables virtual work styles for users and increased business agility for IT.”
"Cloud.com’s CloudStack enables enterprises and service providers to quickly architect, configure and deploy highly-reliable, highly-scalable and cost-effective cloud environments that operate in a far more flexible and cost-efficient way than traditional datacenter computing," said Peder Ulander, Chief Marketing Officer at Cloud.com. "Cloud security and data integrity are top of mind for CIOs, limiting the broad adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise. Through our engagement with the McAfee Connected program, CIOs will have increased confidence that their existing security programs and policies will be extended to the cloud by using our "McAfee Validated" cloud computing platform.”