Cloud Security

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Overview

Cloud computing provides tremendous benefits to organizations of all sizes. For small and mid-sized businesses, cloud computing allows time-constrained IT teams to operate more efficiently. For large enterprises, the cloud provides the ability to scale up or down to respond quickly to changing market conditions. Businesses of all sizes can leverage the cloud to increase innovation and collaboration. Yet many organizations are hesitant to fully leverage the benefits of the cloud, citing concerns regarding data loss and unauthorized access, and are reluctant to rely on cloud providers to solve these challenges.

McAfee Cloud Security helps organizations safely and confidently leverage secure cloud computing services and solutions. Rather than adopting the unique — and sometimes unknown — security practices and policies of each cloud vendor, McAfee Cloud Security allows businesses to extend and apply their own access and security policies into the cloud by securing all the data traffic moving between the enterprise and the cloud, as well as data being stored in the cloud.

To learn more about cloud security, view the Augment or Advocate? Strategic Approaches for Securing the Cloud on-demand webcast.

Key Benefits

  • Compute in the cloud with more confidence
    Overcome common cloud computing security concerns and compliance obstacles by extending corporate security and policies to apply to cloud traffic.
  • Secure all your critical data
    Protect, identify, and classify all critical data while it moves between the enterprise and the cloud — email, web, and authentication traffic.
  • Operate with more efficiency and flexibility
    Reduce IT drag by combining data loss prevention, email, web, and identity and access management under a single, modular-based platform. Deploy in a variety of form-factors, including on-premise appliances, cloud, or a hybrid of both.
  • Protect the sensitive information in your databases
    Take advantage of the increased scalability, flexibility, availability, and the lower costs offered by the cloud, while carefully monitoring data to make sure it is protected. Meet the requirements of compliance regulations with McAfee Database Activity Monitoring.

Awards / Reviews

CRN
McAfee Named One of the 20 Coolest Cloud Security Vendors by CRN, 2012

The Intel-owned security company has been preaching cloud security measures since before the cloud truly formed. McAfee’s central cloud piece is the Cloud Security Platform, which secures content and data—e-mail, Web and identity—as it moves to and from the cloud.

SC Magazine for IT Security Professional
McAfee Cloud Security Platform Named a Finalist (Best Cloud Computing Security 2012) from SC Magazine

These technologies are deployed to protect data and/or applications deployed in a cloud environment. They may also protect the cloud computing infrastructure itself.

Products

Email Security

McAfee Email Protection
McAfee Email Protection

McAfee Email Protection provides the ultimate in cloud email security and flexibility. Whether you are looking for an onsite solution with McAfee Email Security Appliance, or leveraging the cloud with McAfee SaaS Email Protection & Continuity, or a hybrid combination of the two, Email Protection empowers you to deploy email security the way that best fits your current and future needs. Cloud security is delivered from McAfee Labs, providing the most comprehensive Global Threat Intelligence.

Web Security

McAfee Cloud Identity Manager
McAfee Cloud Identity Manager

McAfee Cloud Identity Manager enforces corporate security standards for cloud application access and improves productivity for IT and end users by relieving password reset requests.

McAfee Services Gateway
McAfee Services Gateway

McAfee Services Gateway enables businesses to develop a standards-based policy enforcement point that is integrated with internal identity management solutions, middleware, and auditing/monitoring infrastructure.

McAfee Web Protection
McAfee Web Protection

McAfee Web Protection combines advanced web security, controls, and deployment flexibility. Whether you are looking for the control of an onsite solution with McAfee Web Gateway, the ease of Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) management with McAfee SaaS Web Protection, or a hybrid combination of the two, McAfee Web Protection empowers you to deploy web security the way that best fits your current and future needs.

Data Loss Protection

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention
McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) safeguards intellectual property and ensures compliance by protecting sensitive data wherever it lives – on the network, in storage systems, or at the endpoint, while saving time and money with centralized deployment, management, and reporting.

Database Security

McAfee Database Activity Monitoring
McAfee Database Activity Monitoring

McAfee Database Activity Monitoring stops attacks in real time, delivers sophisticated audit reports to help meet compliance requirements, and eases vulnerability remediation with virtual patching technology. McAfee's memory-based Activity Sensor architecture allows for highly scalable, reliable database protection across both physical and virtual environments. Sensors can be automatically provisioned and customers can monitor managed services in-house.

Integrated Suites

McAfee Content Security Suite
McAfee Content Security Suite

McAfee Content Security Suite bundles McAfee Web Protection, McAfee Email Protection, McAfee Network DLP Prevent, and McAfee Device Control into a one-suite purchase.

News

News

  • Survey: Cloud security, migration time major concerns with shift to cloud computing
    May 11, 2012
    The move to cloud computing is expected to increase fourfold in 2012 despite concerns about cloud security and the time it would take to migrate companies' applications to the cloud, according to a new survey by a U.S.-based networking company.
  • CSA makes important announcement in Germany
    May 9, 2012
    As governments around the world continue to aggressively adopt cloud computing services into their IT operations, they are getting more help from industry leaders in standardizing the technology and ensuring security.
  • Cloud computing boosts revenues at charitable organizations
    May 7, 2012
    Some of the most common benefits enterprises experience after initiating use of cloud computing include improved cost efficiency, streamlined task management and advanced flexibility in the face of evolving markets.
  • GSA's FedRAMP initiative nearly under way
    May 7, 2012
    Many enterprises and small businesses have started adopting cloud computing services into their IT operations recently, while the U.S. federal government has been attempting to keep pace.
  • Security in the cloud
    May 3, 2012
    When a new technology hits the market, especially one that directly manages data and is used in enterprise operations, security concerns come in rapidly.

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Resources

Data Sheets

Cloud-Based Online Security Through McAfee SaaS Solutions

For a technical summary on the McAfee product listed above, please view the product data sheet.

McAfee SaaS Web & Email Security with Archiving

For a technical summary on the McAfee product listed above, please view the product data sheet.

Reports

Solution Briefs

Community

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Blogs

  • Leverage Cloud Apps with Intel Cloud SSO
    Tim Roddy - May 23, 2012
    Today, Intel announced (http://intel.ly/LDRT7W) the general availability of Intel Cloud SSO. Intel Cloud SSO is a pure cloud-based identity solution from three of the most trusted names in the industry— Intel, McAfee and Salesforce.com— that simplifies the cumbersome process of providing users with access to hundreds of SaaS apps. Organizations currently using cloud applications know Read more...
  • Get Your Arms Around Big Security Data
    Eric Schou - May 22, 2012
    The more data you have, the more insight and knowledge you possess, right? But what happens when your data stores grow so large that securing and managing them effectively is no longer in the cards? A few extra gigabytes here and terabytes there, and before you know it, you’ve got a big security data problem. Read more...
  • The Big Picture: Taking a Holistic Approach to Email Security
    Tim Roddy - May 22, 2012
    Email is the most common form of communication in business today. Every IT manger and CIO knows they need to block spam and viruses from entering their network via email – a real no-brainer these days. We even have world-class products and services to remove unwanted email at a truly impressive catch rate of well Read more...
  • API Security: What You Need to Know
    Tim Roddy - May 09, 2012
    Ever wonder how some of your favorite apps work together seamlessly, integrating key data points across platforms? How about the financial information you just pulled from a cloud-based CRM through your company’s ERP portal? The answer is the near invisible Application Programming Interface, or API. These pieces of finely tuned code silently make the digital Read more...
  • Why Integrity Matters: A Silicon to Software Model to Accelerate Cloud Computing
    Greg Brown - May 04, 2012
    The advantages of cloud computing – new levels of cost efficiency, rapid deployment and self-service are much talked about. Yet, while cloud computing remains a top executive priority, security factors are inhibiting broadscale adoption. Very recent Intel Peer Research on cloud computing “What’s Holding Back the Cloud” revealed that 56% of IT professionals are concerned Read more...