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Total Protection for Your Enterprise
McAfee, Inc. announces an all-in-one integrated solution that reduces the complexity of managing security in enterprises.
Clearly, security is a business issue. The very systems and networks you rely on to conduct business efficiently and profitably are under ferocious attack.
“Organized crime is trying to steal corporate data,” says Eric Winsborrow, vice president of product marketing at McAfee. “It’s easier to go after a credit-card processing company and get 40 million credit card numbers than it is to go after grandma 40 million times.”
Organized criminals use techniques that are more sophisticated and integrated than ever before. More mobile users and guests increase the chances of a compromised system wreaking havoc inside your trusted network, if network access is not controlled. Drive-by downloads can deposit malware on users’ systems, which can turn them into zombies, launching attacks from within your company or directed at others. Criminals may launch a distributed denial-of-service attack, and demand payment for the attack to cease.
As criminals add new techniques to their integrated attacks, companies clearly need new protections, but that protection must be comprehensive and efficient to guard against complex threats.
“Businesses have historically responded to these voracious attacks with a ‘one threat/one cure’ approach,” says Winsborrow. “They’ve been buying point products, and they’re not buying in the context of an overall security risk management process.”
Comprehensive, Integrated Protection
“Businesses need a cure that’s simple and integrated as the threat is complex,” says Winsborrow. “The more complex the threat, the simpler solution you need.”
Point products can be expensive to implement, because the pieces don’t work together. “Companies hit a point of diminishing returns—the cost of investing and maintaining these point products goes beyond what can be afforded and is efficient,” says Winsborrow. “Protection needs to be integrated in a way that allows your business to be efficient.”
That’s exactly the aim of McAfee® Total Protection solutions.
McAfee Total Protection
McAfee Total Protection solutions are all-in-one integrated solutions with a comprehensive and proven set of security capabilities. The solutions include anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, host intrusion prevention, centralized policy management, and network access control. McAfee integrated these technologies to allow you to better manage and mitigate your risk. McAfee Total Protection is more effective at enforcing policy and stopping blended threats, a single management view, a single research capability, a single support contact, and simpler updates.
Comprehensive protection delivers multi-tier anti-virus, anti-spyware, host intrusion prevention/firewall, and anti-spam. Enterprises can also protect corporate assets from non-compliant end points with network access control. And they gain proactive protection with the ability to stop zero-day attacks and reduce patching urgency. A single console integrates policy management and reporting, reducing the administrative burden. McAfee AVERT® Labs, one of the world’s best malicious code, anti-virus, and vulnerability research facilities, looks at threats in an integrated way.
The economics are right. “For a little more than buying two of these products, you get everything with McAfee Total Protection,” says Winsborrow. McAfee estimates that companies will save 40 percent compared to buying point products with Total Protection.
McAfee offers two Total Protection solutions for the enterprise market. McAfee Total Protection for Enterprise is engineered for medium to large companies (typically over 100 nodes) that require comprehensive system protection. It includes anti-virus, anti-spyware, host intrusion prevention and firewall for the desktop, anti-virus for servers, anti-virus and anti-spam for e-mail servers, and anti-virus for the SMTP gateway. The solution is tightly integrated with a single, enterprise scalable security management console for centralized control and reporting.
McAfee Total Protection for Enterprise–Advanced is engineered for medium and large companies (typically over 500 nodes) that require comprehensive system protection, plus network access control. It includes all of the base capabilities of Enterprise as well as network access control.
No Compromise Protection
An all-in-one approach doesn’t mean that enterprise IT organizations have to sacrifice quality. McAfee Total Protection solutions are based on market-leading and award-winning foundational technologies.
“McAfee creates the best technology and protection, and we go the extra mile to integrate it into a single console,” says Winsborrow.
McAfee Total Protection is built for the future, so customers can reap significant value today and in the future. McAfee Total Protection leverages the desktop agents already installed on your users’ systems as well as your security console, protecting your investment. Total Protection for Enterprise and Total Protection for Enterprise–Advanced are based on the same platform, so migration is simple.
McAfee’s leadership is recognized across the industry by customers, analysts, and press. Among our numerous awards and recognitions, the company was named the leader in overall security suites and architecture and management in The Forrester Wave™ for Client Security Suites in Q2 2005.
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