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.
“As the world’s largest dedicated security company, McAfee consistently provides the most innovative solutions in response to changing business needs,” said Matt Fairbanks, senior vice president of product and solution marketing at McAfee. “Recognition by SC Magazine’s panel of security experts is validation that McAfee continues to set the standard for excellence in security, while delivering the best-of-breed solutions on the market.”
McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint software was awarded the Best Enterprise Security Solution Readers’ Trust Award. McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint software provides comprehensive protection from today’s advanced threats in a single integrated solution. McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint software is the industry’s first integrated platform for endpoint security, access control and compliance management. It delivers strong security while enabling lower cost of managing the endpoints and simplifying compliance challenges.
McAfee Web Gateway appliance was awarded Best Anti-Malware Solution for using next-generation proactive intent analysis to filter out malicious content from web traffic in real time. By scanning a web page’s active content, emulating and understanding its behavior, and predicting its intent, McAfee Web Gateway appliance proactively protects against zero-day and targeted attacks as they occur. Combining next-generation proactive analysis, outbound malware detection, and anti-virus capabilities provides the industry’s most unique gateway-specific anti-malware technology and best defense against malware.
McAfee won in categories chosen by the Reader Trust Voting Panel – comprised of security and technology experts from large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets – representing the wide distribution of SC Magazine readers. With an unprecedented number of entries submitted, the 2010 SC Awards was the most competitive in the program’s history. For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit www.scmagazineus.com/awards.
About SC Magazine
SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought-leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. Besides the monthly print magazine and daily website, the brand’s portfolio includes the SC Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire, SC World Congress and SC Congree Canada.
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is committed to relentlessly tackling the world's toughest security challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team, 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. http://www.mcafee.com
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