Awards and Reviews

Awards

McAfee products and solutions, partner program, and executive team are regularly recognized with awards from leading security industry groups and major media outlets. Read about our latest accolades.

SC Magazine Innovator
McAfee and McAfee Email Protection Named as Industry Innovator by SC Magazine, 2012

What does characterize McAfee as an Innovator is its approach to the most important aspect of innovation: how one thinks. The Network Security Business Unit — the home of McAfee Email Protection — is solidly ensconced in the type of thinking process that results in innovative solutions to difficult, and occasionally obscure, information assurance challenges.

McAfee: 2012 Best Companies to Partner With
CRN: McAfee One of 2012 Best Companies to Partner With

CRN listed McAfee among the best companies to partner with for 2012.

SC Magazine Best Buy
McAfee Email Protection Gets 5-stars and SC Best Buy Recognition, 2012

The Holy Grail of IT products is one that is low cost, easy to use, and offers a rich feature set. McAfee Email Protection easily fits those criteria in the email security and content filtering space. Verdict: An absolutely brilliant product. We make it our Best Buy.

SC Magazine Awards 2012
McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Gets 5-Star Rating by SC Magazine

The McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is able to gather, store, and analyze logs and data from a large amount of sources and then correlate events based on rules, possible risk, or historical trends.

SC Magazine Awards 2012
McAfee Wins 2012 SC Magazine Award for Database Security

McAfee — considered to be one of the top vendors by analysts and customers in both vulnerability assessment and database activity monitoring — was awarded Database Security Solution of the Year, by SC Magazine. This prestigious award was announced at the 2012 RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA.

Virus Bulletin
McAfee Email Security Products Receive VBSpam Awards

Virus Bulletin awarded McAfee SaaS Email Protection, McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance, and McAfee Email Gateway with VBSpam Awards, noting the products’ high spam catch rates and low false positive rates.

SC Magazine 2011
McAfee Email Protection Earns Prestigious Five-Star Rating from SC Magazine

With five stars across the board in every product rating category, McAfee Email Protection was awarded the top 5-Star Rating by SC Magazine – measured on its features, ease of use, performance, documentation, support and value for the money.

SC Magazine Recommended
McAfee NAC Solution Earns Five-Star Rating from SC Magazine

The reviewers at SC Magazine point to the McAfee NAC solution’s comprehensive policy controls, strong support documentation, and enterprise-class alerts, reports, and auto-remediation features.

SC Magazine Reprints
McAfee Email Protection Earns Five-Star Rating from SC Magazine

With five stars across the board in every product rating category, SC Magazine awards McAfee Email Protection top honors. The review cites the product’s ease of use, performance, documentation, support, and overall value.

SC Magazine Awards 2011
McAfee Wins 2011 SC Magazine’s Reader Trust Award

McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite has won SC Magazine’s Reader Trust Award in the Best Anti-Malware Management category. SC Magazine states, “For the price of other traditional anti-malware solutions, McAfee provides the ability to consolidate its security protection and get more tiers of protection.”

Software of the Year Award
McAfee WaveSecure Wins Software of the Year 2010

WaveSecure — McAfee’s mobile security for Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian operating systems — beat the competition. Awards were given in 17 categories and WaveSecure took the top spot in the hotly contested Mobile Tools category. Software of the Year nominees were carefully selected by an expert panel of technology journalists and Softwareload executives.

SC Magazine Reprints
ToPS for Compliance Receives Five-Star Rating by SC Magazine

SC Magazine looks at McAfee Total Protection for Compliance and gives McAfee an overall rating of 5 stars. This evaluation mentions that Total Protection for Compliance is a great solution and helps you address the question: "Where and when should I spend my next dollar on security?"

SC Magazine Recommended
McAfee NAC Solution Earns Five-Star Rating from SC Magazine

SC Magazine says McAfee’s NAC solution is, “a full-featured offering that provides all the tools needed to validate that endpoints are in compliance with policies.”

2010 SC Magazine Award
McAfee Wins 2010 SC Magazine Awards in Multiple Categories

Wins Include Best Anti-Malware Solution and Best Enterprise Security Solution

SAN FRANCISCO, March 05, 2010 - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) has been recognized with SC Magazine’s 2010 Awards in the following categories: Best Anti-Malware solution and Best Security Solution. The announcement was made yesterday at the SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco.

CRN 2010 Channel Chiefs
McAfee, Inc. Executives Recognized as Channel Leaders by Everything Channel's CRN Magazine

McAfee Executives Named “Security Superstars” and “Channel Chiefs”

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 01, 2010 - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced several of its executives received top honors from Everything Channel’s CRN magazine. Named on the list of 2010 Security Superstars were such executives as Alex Thurber, senior vice president of worldwide channel operations; Fernando Quintero, McAfee vice president of channel sales and operations for the Americas; and David Marcus, director of security research and communications.

CRN Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendors of 2010
McAfee, Inc. Named One of "Coolest Cloud Security Vendors" by Everything Channel's CRN

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 01, 2010 - McAfee, Inc. today announced that Everything Channel's CRN has named it one of the “20 Coolest Cloud Security Vendors.” The top Cloud Security Vendors include CRN’s top 20 picks of the coolest cloud security vendors helping to foster the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) phenomenon and drive it forward in 2010.

McAfee, Inc. Executives Named in Everything Channel's Top 100 Most Influential Executives in the Industry

McAfee Executives Named “Security Superstars” and “Channel Chiefs”

McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt Named a Most Influential Executive; Channel SVP Alex Thurber Named a Maverick

SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 30, 2009 - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced that President and CEO Dave DeWalt along with Alex Thurber, senior vice president of worldwide channel operations, were named to the 100 Top Most Influential Executives in the Industry by Everything Channel’s CRN.

TSIA Fall 2009 STAR Award for Service Excellence
McAfee, Inc. Receives Fall 2009 STAR Award for Service Excellence From TSIA

McAfee Honored for Service Excellence in Consumer Support

SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 28, 2009 - McAfee, Inc. today announced it has been honored with a Fall 2009 STAR Award for Service Excellence from the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA), the services industry’s largest association. McAfee received the STAR Award for Service Excellence in Consumer Support.

SC Magazine 2009 Award Winner
McAfee, Inc. Complete Security Product Earns Five Star Rating from SC Magazine

Offering From Recently Acquired MX Logic Receives Top Marks In Ease Of Use, Performance And Support

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 22, 2009 - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), today announced that Complete Security, a product recently obtained during its acquisition of MX Logic, earned one of the highest ratings from SC Magazine in its Fraud Prevention group test. SC Magazine awarded the solution five out of a possible five stars in the following categories: ease of use, performance and support.

Info Security Products Guide 2009 Global Product Excellence Awards for Customer Trust
McAfee, Inc. Wins Information Security Readers' Choice Award

McAfee Web Gateway Wins Gold in Best Web Security Gateway Products Category

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 21, 2009 - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced that McAfee Web Gateway has earned a Readers’ Choice Award from Information Security Magazine and SearchSecurity.com. McAfee Web Gateway won the gold medal in the Security Gateway Products category, placing above Trend Micro and Websense for the top position.

McAfee, Inc. Receives Top Honors From Everything Channel

Top Channel Portal Recognizes McAfee in Its Annual Report Card and Names Executive to Top 100 Women in the Channel

SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 26, 2009 - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) has received two top industry accolades from Everything Channel. McAfee senior vice president of sales and channel operations Julie Cullivan was recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as one of the Top 100 Women in the Channel, and the company was honored with a first place win for product innovation in the prestigious 2009 Everything Channel Annual Report Card, Network Security Software category.

SC Magazine 2009 Awards Winner
McAfee, Inc. Wins Best Security Company at SC Magazine Event

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced that it has won three SC Magazine Awards in the following categories, Best Security Company, Best Endpoint Security Solution, and Best Email Security Solution. The awards were announced at the annual SC Awards Dinner and Presentation at the Hilton San Francisco.

Everything Channel 5 Star Partner Program Winner for 2010
McAfee Earns a VAR 5-Star Partner Program Ranking from Everything Channel

Reviews

Read what leading industry analysts are saying about McAfee products and solutions.

Gartner
McAfee Positioned as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways, 2012

Leading analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has placed McAfee in the leaders quadrant in its "Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways" as published on August 15, 2012. We consider this a testament to the strength, stability, flexibility, and effectiveness of McAfee's email protection solutions.

McAfee NAC is #1 with Current Analysis

McAfee NAC is a leader in Current Analysis’ independent product assessment report.

Gartner
McAfee, Inc. Positioned as a Leader for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention in Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant

Analyst Firm’s Criteria Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 15, 2010 - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE), today announced that research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed the company in the leaders quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention,” as published on June 2, 2010.

The Forrester Wave: Content Security Suites, Q2 2009

Forrester evaluated content security suite vendors, using a 41-criteria evaluation, partially based on the results of The Forrester Wave: Email Filtering, Q2 2009 and The Forrester Wave: Web Filtering, Q2 2009.

Gartner
McAfee Positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways

Leading analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has placed the company in the leader’s quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways” as published on April 27, 2010.

Gartner
Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection

Mobile data protection products secure data on movable devices that can leave the office, including notebooks, PDAs and smartphones.

Mobile Security Report 2009
Mobile Security Report 2009

Read about Device Manufacturers’ security experiences and their approach to future security challenges.

SC Magazine Best Buy
Vulnerability Manager Rated Best Buy by SC Magazine

The McAfee Vulnerability Manager is a powerful appliance-based tool that provides vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and web application scanning.