Securing Telecommunications Networks

Ensure the integrity and availability of your network

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Overview

McAfee offers a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions that keep your network and data protected, your services resilient, and your customers happy. Backed by McAfee’s Global Threat Intelligence, you get 24/7 security with fast time to protection from the latest global threats — from every vector, including email, web, and network. User behavior analysis alerts you to data risk, providing protection against sophisticated, targeted network attacks. McAfee delivers local and global situational awareness to thwart inadvertent and intentional threats to your business, including threats that target sensitive information in your databases. Our security solutions help you identify and address vulnerabilities while adhering to regulatory compliance.

Key Benefits

  • Protect databases from unauthorized activity
    Guard sensitive customer payment information stored in billing databases and block unauthorized database activity. McAfee Database Activity Monitoring provides database security for cellular providers, wireless carriers, and other communications companies.
  • Maintain network integrity and availability
    Ensure critical infrastructure protection. Whether you’re the subject of sophisticated, targeted attacks or simply need to stay on top of the latest vulnerabilities, McAfee provides tools to monitor and block threats from multiple vectors, including malware, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and more. Analyze code in targeted attacks and evaluate your network-wide risk with a comprehensive view of vulnerabilities, prioritized for your network for better risk management and regulatory compliance.
  • Gain local and global situational awareness
    Secure protection at the endpoint and network edge, as well as within your network. Monitor irregular behavior within your networks, from file and server modifications to anomalous user behavior and inappropriate use or transfer of critical data.
  • Get faster time to response with Global Threat Intelligence
    McAfee Global Threat Intelligence provides 24/7 protection and visibility to ensure fast time to protection from the latest global threats — from every threat vector, including email, web, and network. Our reputation-based rating system enables swift, protective response at endpoints and gateways so anomalous users — regardless of their affiliation with malware or other activity — are identified and blocked, along with malicious code and other threats to your network.

Customer Stories

Cox Communications

Cox Communications reduces spam volume with McAfee Email Gateway.

Highlights
  • Generated zero false positives
  • Rejected 90,000 connections from obvious spam-sending sources each hour
  • Reduced total email volume by 40%
  • Eliminated the need for additional Exchange servers or McAfee Email Gateway appliances
  • Slowed spammers’ bandwidth capabilities

Intelsat

Intelsat trusts McAfee to protect user and network devices globally.

Highlights
  • Protected a diverse environment from internal and external threats, including the inherent risks of a fluctuating population of 250 to 500 contractors
  • Managed the entire server system with 1.5 full-time employees (FTEs)
  • Reduced solution cost by 75% over a la carte purchases from separate vendors
  • Standardized a security environment that previously required five vendors
  • Complied with regulations, including SOX, HIPAA, and Department of Defense (DoD)

TeliaSonera AB

A leading telecommunications group in the Nordic and Baltic regions strengthens anti-virus security with McAfee.

Highlights
  • Protected 23,000 endpoints against viruses
  • Enforced blacklisting of potentially malicious applications
  • Delivered powerful functionality, ease of use, and simplified administration
  • Helped secure the patch update process

Products

McAfee offers a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions that keep your systems, network, and data protected. For a complete list of our products, please see our Products and Solutions page.

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.

Network Security

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McAfee Network Security Platform

McAfee Network Security Platform is the industry’s most secure network IPS. Backed by McAfee Labs, it protects customers on average 80 days ahead of the threat. It blocks attacks in real time, before they can cause damage, and protects every network-connected device. With Network Security Platform, you can automatically manage risk and enforce compliance — while improving operational efficiency and reducing IT efforts.

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McAfee Network Threat Response

McAfee Network Threat Response enables security analysts to dig deep into threats and construct forensic analysis to effectively characterize and respond to malware in the way that’s most effective for your organization.

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McAfee Network User Behavior Analysis

McAfee Network User Behavior Analysis delivers real-time visibility into what users are doing on your network and how they are using critical business applications. This intuitive view provides the decision support information you need to reduce risk and meet compliance requirements. Automated monitoring, based on packet capture, as well as analysis and instant correlation to security policy, dramatically increases accuracy and reduces the time and effort required to detect behavioral anomalies.

Risk & Compliance

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McAfee Application Control

McAfee Application Control ensures only trusted applications run on servers and endpoints. It reduces risks from unauthorized software, boosts endpoint control, extends the viability of fixed-function systems without impacting performance, and lowers operating costs.

McAfee Risk Advisor
McAfee Risk Advisor

McAfee Risk Advisor saves you time and money by proactively correlating threat, vulnerability, and countermeasure information to pinpoint at-risk assets and optimize patching efforts.

McAfee Vulnerability Manager
McAfee Vulnerability Manager

McAfee Vulnerability Manager finds and prioritizes vulnerabilities and policy violations on your network. It balances asset criticality with vulnerability severity, enabling you to focus protection on your most important assets.

Resources

Podcasts

Marc Appelbaum of Vonage, a McAfee customer, is interviewed

Marc Appelbaum of Vonage talks with Brian Contos, McAfee’s director of global security strategy and risk management about security and compliance within the telecommunications industry.

David Wilson of PAETEC, a McAfee customer, is interviewed

Brian Contos, McAfee’s director of global security strategy and risk management discusses security and compliance within the telecommunications industry with David Wilson.

White Papers

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Blogs

  • Supply Chain Management is About Mission Risk Management
    Tom Conway - June 11, 2010
    One of the things I enjoy most about my job is the opportunity to collaborate with industry and public sector colleagues on issues that affect us all. This type of collaboration between industry and government is something of utmost important at McAfee, and I take pleasure in being a part of the process when I Read more...
  • Critical Infrastructures Under Constant Attack by George Kurtz
    Archive - January 28, 2010
    McAfee just released a commissioned report, written by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, that shows what we’ve known to be true for a long time. Critical infrastructures ranging from electrical grids, to oil production facilities to telecommunications and transportation networks are under constant attack from cybercriminals. The new report reveals the cost and Read more...
  • Outtage Demonstrates Need for Critical Infrastructure Security
    Archive - April 09, 2009
    Hi Folks, This morning I heard news reports that the south bay had a telecommunications fiber cut, but my friend Bob from Gilroy had texted me using his phone saying that the local Gilroy PD said it was some sort of fire that caused the outtage. Then this afternoon, I overheard some folks saying there Read more...
  • Critical Infrastructure Attacks Aren’t Science Fiction
    Dr. Phyllis Schneck - April 08, 2009
    It’s a scary story reminiscent of the cold war era that sounds like it comes right out of a science fiction novel: Spies linked to Russia and China penetrated the U.S. electrical grid. The cyberspies have left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according a report Wednesday on the front Read more...