McAfee Compatible Solutions to Drive Operational Savings
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc.
(http://www.mcafee.com/us/) (NYSE: MFE) today announced that three of its
current McAfee Security Innovation Alliance
(http://www.mcafee.com/us/partners/security_innovation_alliance/overview.ht
ml) (SIA) technology partners have passed compatibility testing, including
AccessData (http://www.accessdata.com/), Bit9, Inc. (http://www.bit9.com/)
and LogRhythm (http://www.logrhythm.com/). McAfee has also added seven new
partners to the SIA technology partnering program, including Catbird
(http://www2.catbird.com/), Cyber-Ark (http://www.cyber-ark.com/),
ForeScout (http://www.forescout.com/), HBGary (http://www.hbgary.com/),
NitroSecurity (http://www.nitrosecurity.com/), Secerno
(http://www.secerno.com/) and TriGeo Network Security
(http://www.trigeo.com/).
The SIA program accelerates the development of interoperable security
products and simplifies the integration of those products within complex
customer environments. Through the program, these companies will integrate
with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator(R) (ePO(TM)) software, McAfee's
industry-leading security and compliance management platform that is
deployed by more than 35,000 enterprise customers.
With interoperability testing, joint customers can:
* More fully leverage their investments in McAfee while adding
complementary capabilities not found in McAfee's core offerings
* Be assured that their joint solution has been tested against specific
functional criteria and has earned the "McAfee Compatible" logo
* Enjoy lower deployment costs, and faster time to value, due to up-front
testing
"McAfee customers who select products that have successfully passed the
McAfee compatibility testing can leverage their investments, while adding
complementary capabilities not found in McAfee's core offerings," said Joe
Gottlieb, vice president of corporate strategy and technology alliances for
McAfee. "This results in reduced technical support costs, enhanced customer
satisfaction and increased customer confidence."
For more information on how to apply or become a Security Innovation
Alliance partner, please visit http://www.mcafee.com/sia.
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., the leading dedicated security technology company,
headquartered in Santa Clara, California, delivers proactive and proven
solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world.
With its unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation,
McAfee(R) empowers home users, businesses, the public sector, and service
providers with the ability to block attacks, prevent disruptions, and
continuously track and improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com.
McAfee, ePolicy Orchestrator, ePO, Security Innovation Alliance and/or
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Inc. and/or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. McAfee Red in
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Partners Demonstrate Proven Commitment to Compatibility Testing
Through compatibility testing, AccessData's customers can now deploy
and manage AccessData agents from ePO, view coverage reports and query ePO
to correlate users with assets, greatly streamlining their investigative
and threat analysis efforts.
"AccessData's goal is to deliver intuitive investigative solutions that
provide deep visibility into all data across the enterprise, while
integrating seamlessly into an organization's existing infrastructure,"
said Brian Karney, chief operating officer, AccessData. "Through our tested
integration with McAfee ePO, joint customers can dramatically enhance their
investigative capabilities."
The McAfee compatible version of Bit9 Parity
(http://www.bit9.com/products/parity.php) provides McAfee and Bit9
customers another layer of security and desktop control. Administrators can
deploy and manage Parity agents on endpoints and view coverage reports.
This integration empowers IT professionals to block unauthorized, illegal
and vulnerable applications, generate audit trails and prevent
configuration drifts for desktops, laptops and servers.
"Bit9 is proud that Bit9 Parity is now compatible with McAfee's rich
ePO platform," said Doug Cahill, vice president of corporate development
and product management at Bit9. "Bit9's ability to identify, authenticate
and control the execution of unauthorized software on the desktop is the
perfect complement to McAfee's extensive portfolio of endpoint security
offerings. This is a natural fit that will bring tremendous value to our
mutual customers."
The LogRhythm integration combines LogRhythm's comprehensive log and
event management (http://www.logrhythm.com/) with ePO, McAfee's centralized
security and compliance management framework. The integrated solution
enables powerful new security workflows that link real-time monitoring and
alerting, threat detection, and incident response through enhanced and
actionable reporting delivered in ePO.
"We are thrilled to have completed our compatibility testing and to
bring a new level of efficiency and effectiveness to security and
compliance management through our integration with McAfee ePO," said Mike
Reagan, vice president of marketing and business development for LogRhythm.
"Customers can now realize the benefits of actionable reporting and
enhanced security workflows in ePO that harness the inherent value of
LogRhythm's real-time monitoring, analysis and alerting."
New Partners Join the SIA Partner Program
Catbird delivers security and compliance solutions for VMware ESX(TM)
and Citrix XenServer(TM)
(http://www2.catbird.com/our_services/vm_hypervisor_shield.php). Via its
stateless and cloud-based V-Agent virtual appliance, Catbird provides a
full complement of visibility and protection for the hypervisor
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor) and VMs, including virtual
network segmentation, server sprawl management and intrusion prevention.
V-Security combines network security technologies with hypervisor and VM
data to enforce corporate policies, separation of duties and secondary
validation. Integration with McAfee ePO will enable customers to
consolidate these capabilities with a broad portfolio of virtual and
physical, network and system security solutions.
"Catbird's innovative network security offerings complement McAfee's
system security suites and management solutions for virtualized data
centers and desktops," said Edmundo Costa, Catbird's chief operating
officer. "With ePO integration, McAfee customers will gain additional
visibility into, receive alerts from and manage policies for their virtual
network environments."
Cyber-Ark Software provides solutions
(http://www.cyber-ark.com/identity-access-management-solutions/index.asp)
for sensitive information management, returning control to business data
owners, and mitigating insider threats that account for the majority of
data misuse or leakage cases. The integration with McAfee Host Data Loss
Prevention
(http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/data_loss_prevention/index.ht
ml) will enable accurate discovery and classification of sensitive
information, resulting in shorter and more reliable McAfee data loss
prevention deployments.
"Cyber-Ark is excited to be a part of McAfee's Security Innovation
Alliance program," said Udi Mokady, president and chief executive officer
of Cyber-Ark Software. "McAfee is a dynamic leader in this industry and has
a clear understanding of the value of integrating valuable partner
technology into the overall enterprise solution to achieve a more complete
security offering for customers."
ForeScout is a provider of access control and compliance solutions.
ForeScout plans to integrate its counteract NAC product with McAfee ePO to
extend the network enforcement options managed therein and extend coverage
to more devices on the corporate network, including those in non 802.1x
environments.
Ayelet Steinitz, vice president of business development, remarked
"ForeScout is excited to partner with McAfee to address our mutual
customers' need for our complimentary NAC functionality. Furthermore, this
combined offering enables stronger enforcement across corporate networks
drawing on the strength of McAfee's ePO in combination with CounterACT's
network enforcement mechanisms. Mutual customers will be able to deploy the
integrated offering without any changes to their networks."
HBGary specializes in developing advanced computer analysis tools to
detect, diagnose, and respond to computer intrusions and other cyber crime
activities. HBGary's flagship product is Responder(TM)
(http://www.hbgary.com/products.html), the first Physical Memory & Runtime
Forensics Platform. Through this partnership, HBGary customers will be able
to use McAfee ePO to deploy Responder on demand, scan physical memory for
malicious and unauthorized code, and report results for optimal active
corrective action.
"HBGary is excited to join McAfee's Security Innovation Alliance," said
Rich Cummings, chief technology officer, HBGary. "This new partnership will
greatly enhance our customers' ability to detect, diagnose and respond to
malware and computer intrusions in the enterprise by taking advantage of
McAfee's security infrastructure."
NitroSecurity, Inc. provides real-time security information management
for edge-to-core protection and visibility. NitroView Enterprise Security
Manager (http://www.nitrosecurity.com/solutions/) (ESM) enables
rapid-response forensics, analysis and correlation of all network and
security data, improving incident response times, and lowering the mean
time to remediation. The integration of NitroView ESM with McAfee ePO will
deliver actionable alerts so that ePO administrators can adjust security
counter measures in response to security incidents.
"By implementing products that are compatible with McAfee solutions,
our customers experience faster deployment times and reduced costs," said
Ken Levine, chief executive officer of NitroSecurity "Security should be
easy to manage, so McAfee has taken the steps needed to open up its
security risk management architecture and provide customers with the tools
to easily manage their multi-vendor security environments. The result is
greater protection, reduced risk and increased compliance."
The Secerno.SQL (http://www.secerno.com/?pg=solutions) offers a family
of database activity monitoring and database security solutions that
provide a high level of protection against internal and external threats,
optimize compliance auditing and help to improve the efficiency and
security of applications. Secerno.SQL's database activity monitoring and
blocking appliances will be integrated with McAfee ePO to provide a
consolidated view of out-of-policy database activity and the hooks
necessary to manage security countermeasures in context.
"Secerno is delighted to be part of McAfee's SIA Program and that
Secerno.SQL will closely integrate with ePO," said Peter Simpson, vice
president of Global Alliances, Secerno. "This partnership will give our
customers the ability to seamlessly integrate the uniquely precise database
security alerting of Secerno.SQL with the wider security ecosystem within
an enterprise."
TriGeo Network Security delivers enterprise security information and
event management (http://www.secerno.com/?pg=solutions) (SIEM) designed
specifically for the monitoring and compliance needs of the mid-market. By
combining real-time log management and event correlation, TriGeo delivers
advanced network visibility, and real time notification. As part of the
McAfee SIA program, TriGeo will help bridge the gap between their security
monitoring and McAfee ePO's incident response.
"TriGeo empowers IT teams to act on the information they receive, and
we believe there is a strong need in the market for correlated events to be
sent to McAfee ePO," said Michelle Dickman, president and chief executive
officer of TriGeo Network Security. "We're excited to offer customers the
ability to integrate our high-value alerts into ePO, while leveraging ePO
to deploy and update our endpoint agents."
SOURCE McAfee, Inc.
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