McAfee, Inc. Sets New Course with Total Protection

McAfee, Inc. Sets New Course with Total Protection

McAfee all-in-one security solutions for enterprise and small and medium-sized business leverage the company’s extensive product offerings and deliver immediate and long-term benefits to customers.

Securing your desktop and server systems is a never-ending task—new threats continue to appear and known malware doesn’t disappear. To contend with these ever-growing dangers, McAfee® is introducing comprehensive, integrated solutions designed to reduce the complexity of managing security and mitigate the overall business risk.

“The new McAfee Total Protection solutions allow customers to move toward managing business risk and beyond multi-point security,” says Daniel Molina, security evangelist at McAfee. “Total Protection mitigates business risk and reduces the complexity of managing multiple security capabilities and provides an extendible platform for future capabilities.”

Available in April, McAfee’s new consolidated approach gives enterprise and small and medium-sized business customers the immediate benefits of a single, security management console, continuous compliance enforcement, advanced e-mail virus and spam protection, and the backing of a proven, leading research and support organization.

Total Protection from a Single Console

McAfee has developed four integrated solutions that deliver comprehensive protection against complex threats for companies of every size. Businesses fewer than 100 nodes can choose from Total Protection for Small Business–Advanced or Total Protection for Small Business. Businesses with more than 100 nodes can choose from Total Protection for Enterprise–Advanced or Total Protection for Enterprise.

Total Protection solutions offer customers significant advantages and a long-term strategy for protecting your business and mitigating security risks. For every type of organization, Total Protection gives organizations an all-in-one solution that is competitively priced, as well as the research capabilities of McAfee’s AVERT® Labs. This proven, leading research and support organization along with McAfee Customer Service delivers provides customers with a single source of threat and mitigation advice and technical support.

Total Protection features include:

One management console, one set of security updates, and one point of contact for technical support
Comprehensive protection against complex threats—both known and unknown—to block attacks and prevent disruptions
A single agent deployment designed for future capabilities
Flexibility and scalability to assure business continuity while balancing security against costs and resources
First—and Only—Company to Offer a Truly Integrated Security Solution

The first security offering of its kind, Total Protection cannot be easily duplicated in the market because as John Hill, security evangelist at McAfee, points out, while very few security vendors have a comprehensive set of offerings, none of them can offer the broad capabilities of McAfee in an integrated and manageable solution.

“Our competitors are trying to get to the point where we are, but none of them have our range of capabilities in one single integrated solution. They are missing intrusion prevention or they only have anti-virus or anti-spam. We are the only security company that is able to offer a full security feature set managed with one console.”

Customer-Focused Security Strategy

When broken down to its most granular level, the new Total Protection solutions are about customers. Input from customers about their pain drove the development of the solutions.

“Customers told us about the problems they had supporting software from different vendors,” says Hill. “Having these multiple platforms increases the overall footprint and resource requirements. Customers want a single vendor and a single management console. Total Protection meets their needs.”

And McAfee’s diverse customer base meant that Total Protection had to be versatile enough to support all business environments.

“With Total Protection, customers can match the level of protection they need to the users’ behavior, says Molina. “The more customers ask of their systems, the more protection we will provide. Our platform can evolve as the customer’s threat environment evolves.”

Resources

Interested in knowing more about Total Protection? Read “Get Total Protection for Your Enterprise” in this newsletter for more information about Total Protection for Enterprises, and get the details on Total Protection for Small Business in “Small Business System Safeguards,” also in this newsletter.

Download the Total Protection solutions brochure.

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