Overview
McAfee embedded security solutions help manufacturers ensure their products and devices are protected from cyberthreats and attacks. McAfee embedded system and device security solutions span a wide range of technologies, including application whitelisting, anti-virus and anti-malware protection, device management, and encryption — and all leverage the industry-leading McAfee Global Threat Intelligence. Our solutions can be tailored to meet the specific design requirements for a manufacturer’s embedded device and its architectures.
With McAfee solutions for embedded devices, manufacturers can implement a complete line of security features, including:
- Anti-malware protection — McAfee’s application whitelisting solutions prevent malware from ever compromising and infecting embedded devices.
- Comprehensive threat awareness and analysis — Where devices need to access the Internet and communicate across networks, McAfee’s robust Global Threat Intelligence ensures that the traffic coming across the network is safe for devices to use.
- Strong data encryption — When devices need to communicate securely, McAfee embedded security software protects data at rest and in motion.
- Streamlined device management — Easily monitor, manage, and maintain large, globally dispersed deployments of embedded devices.
- Compliance with federal and industry regulations — Ensure devices fall within the various compliance and regulatory frameworks.
- Data loss prevention — Ensure the highest levels of protection for sensitive data on devices.
Problems We Solve
- Lack of zero-day protection
Hackers and cyberthieves create and release more unique and virulent malware than ever before, so it is critical to secure embedded systems with solutions that prevent zero-day attacks. McAfee’s whitelisting solution is a wholly new approach to solve security threats on embedded devices. - Unauthorized software changes on production devices
Unapproved changes to all types of embedded devices and equipment can lead to costly system shutdowns as well as create exposure to data loss, unanticipated loss of device control, and various regulatory fines and penalties. Application whitelisting and change control can help prevent these problems and boost device security. - High partner support costs related to device security problems
Unauthorized changes to devices can cause device manufacturers to spend resources resolving system errors and malfunctions. Robust change control features on devices help ensure that support trucks don’t have to be sent out to customers’ facilities. - Frequent, costly OS patching
New security vulnerabilities are discovered and published to the Internet every day. This makes it difficult for manufacturers and their customers to ensure devices are safe and secure from the most recent exploits. With embedded security software such as application whitelisting, manufacturers can lock down the runtime environment and help prevent costly OS patching cycles. - High field maintenance costs tied to unauthorized changes
When unauthorized changes occur to software running expensive equipment (e.g., large medical devices like CT and PET scanners, or automated, robotic manufacturing equipment), both the device manufacturer and the customer can experience significant financial impact. For manufacturers, sending a technician to the customer site to resolve the problem is not only costly but also potentially damaging to the brand and product reputation. Whitelisting and change control security solutions from McAfee ensure these expensive, unauthorized changes never occur in the first place. - Meeting PCI compliance requirements
Retail sales devices used to process customer transactions often require strict adherence to a series of PCI requirements. Application whitelisting and change control help device manufacturers and their customers who use these devices in their stores obtain and maintain PCI compliance. - Resource intensive, multiple security device solutions for security and compliance
Companies often deploy multiple lines of defense from multiple security vendors, but updating and maintaining this complex web of cyberdefenses is challenging. Changing the businesses approach to embedded device security yields substantial cost reduction while improving a company’s security posture. Using a whitelisting approach can dramatically decrease a company’s complex security systems and achieve increased protection against malicious zero-day attacks. - System unavailability due to unauthorized changes
When expensive manufacturing, medical, and financial systems go down due to unauthorized system changes, companies can experience significant financial loss as well as customer dissatisfaction. Designing embedded system security into manufacturers’ devices upfront yields significant benefits for both the device manufacturer as well as the customers that leverage these systems.
Devices We Secure
McAfee technologies support a growing number of embedded devices across multiple industries. With a flexible, open architecture, McAfee security solutions for embedded systems and devices can be customized for your requirements.
- Aerospace/Defense: Secure communications systems, robotic controls, guidance systems, avionics, targeting and control systems, and wireless networking.
- Automotive: Guard sensors, robotics, system to system, telematics, infotainment systems, wireless communications, and networking.
- Digital Living: Ensure televisions and home networked devices remain malware-free.
- Gaming: Safeguard hand-held gaming devices and gambling kiosks.
- Industrial Controls: Protect values, sensors, monitors, robots and robotic systems, communication systems, and networking systems.
- Medical: Safeguard pumps, monitors, communications, networking, diagnostics, testing, and scanning systems.
- Retail/Point of Sale/Digital Signage: Protect ATMs, registers, point-of-sale systems, kiosks, networked devices, wireless communication systems, digital displays, and lighting.
Supported Systems
Architectures
- Intel
- AMD
Operating Systems
- Windows
- Linux
- Wind River Linux
Demos
McAfee Embedded Control for Industrial Control Systems
McAfee Embedded Control and device security solutions span a wide range of technologies, including application whitelisting, antivirus and antimalware protection, device management, and encryption. Embedded Control blocks unauthorized applications and controls what software installs and runs, prevents malware and zero-day exploits, and reduces patching frequency.
McAfee Embedded Control: Medical Systems
This demo explains how McAfee Embedded Control helps keep medical systems secure and operational with built-in application whitelisting, change control, and integrated security management.
McAfee Embedded control: Retail
This demo details how McAfee Embedded Control helps protect ATMs, registers and other retail systems and devices protected with built-in application whitelisting, change control, and integrated security management.
McAfee Embedded Device Security
This demo explains how McAfee Embedded Control helps keep devices secure and operational with built-in application whitelisting, change control, and integrated security management for various industries.
McAfee Embedded Security for Communications
This demo explains how McAfee Antivirus SDK and McAfee Embedded Reputation SDK help keep the data flow within communication devices secure.
McAfee Embedded Security for the Office
This demo explains how McAfee Embedded Control helps keeps office devices secure and operational with built-in application whitelisting, change control, and integrated security management.
Videos
Intel and McAfee Combining Technology to Protect Smart GridsThis video shows how McAfee and Intel combine systems and technologies to seamlessly manage and protect smart grids through intelligent networks, preventing unauthorized access and allowing for a fail-over capability if a breach occurs.
Medical Device Security Demo with McAfee, Intel, and Wind RiverThis demo from the 2011 Intel Developer Forum shows how technologies from Intel, Wind River, and McAfee work together to secure medical devices. The device is protected with McAfee Embedded Control, McAfee's whitelisting technology.
Driving Security Down the Stack
George Kurtz, McAfee chief technology officer, gives a keynote presentation at the RSA Conference 2011.
McAfee - Wind River Partnership
Ken Klein, president of Wind River, discusses the key elements of the partnership with McAfee.
Customer Stories
Amada
Amada relies on McAfee Embedded Control to provide a stable environment for their customer sheet metal machinery.
Highlights
- Protects Amada machinery and allows for long-term software use
Products
McAfee Embedded Control
McAfee Embedded Control focuses on solving the problem of increased security risk arising from the adoption of commercial operating systems in embedded systems. Embedded Control is a small-footprint, low-overhead, application-independent solution that provides “deploy-and-forget” security.
Embedded Device Management
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) is a key component of the McAfee Security Management Platform and the only enterprise-class software provide unified management of endpoint, network, and data security. With end-to-end visibility and powerful automations that slash incident response times, McAfee ePO software dramatically strengthens protection for embedded devices and drives down the cost and complexity of managing risk and security.
Global Threat Intelligence
McAfee GTI SDK powered by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence
McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) delivers the most comprehensive threat intelligence in the market. Using a broad network of sensors, it provides visibility across all threat vectors — file, web, message, and network. The McAfee® GTI SDK is a software library that provides an API for obtaining ratings of the trustworthiness of email messages, IP addresses, network connections, and URLs. Those ratings can be are typically integrated by an Embedded device manufacturer directly into their products, typically used to provide protection of data passing through their device.
News / Events
News
- Iomega and McAfee Collaborate to Offer Enterprise Security on Iomega’s Top of the Line StorCenter PX Series Network Storage Products
May 17, 2012Topics : Endpoint Protection
- BowBridge Teams With McAfee to Secure Business-Critical Infrastructure
May 12, 2012
BowBridge Software, a leading provider of content security solutions for SAP applications, and IT security expert McAfee join forces to protect business-critical infrastructure from malware and other content security threats. - S&C Enhances Security of Smart Grid Controls With McAfee Solutions
May 9, 2012
S&C Electric Company, a smart grid leader shaping the future of reliable electric delivery, today announces an agreement to bundle application control software from McAfee into S&C’s PC-based control platforms. - Advantech’s SUSIAccess Leverages McAfee Security Solutions for Embedded Platforms
April 24, 2012
Advantech, the embedded platform and integration services provider, is leveraging a software security solution developed by McAfee for use in its embedded platforms. - Thecus and McAfee Partner to Launch NAS Device with McAfee Technology
April 16, 2012
Thecus and McAfee are teaming up to provide protection to NAS devices. Thecus is the first to bundle McAfee anti-virus software within a NAS to provide customers a trouble-free NAS experience. - Security Alert: Confidential Data at Risk Even with Policies in Place; Xerox and McAfee Team Up to Deliver a New Level of Protection
February 14, 2012Topics : Network Security
- Forget Carjacking, What about Carhacking?
September 27, 2011
Like all computers, automobiles can be hacked and compromised. As auto manufacturers continue to rush new features to market, security cannot continue to be an afterthought. - McAfee Report on Automotive Systems Finds Prevelant Lack of Security in Today’s Vehicles
September 6, 2011Topics : McAfee Labs
- U.S. government warns of potential Stuxnet variants
July 27, 2011
Security experts at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fear that variants of the Stuxnet worm could threaten important US infrastructures. - Blackhat: Embedded web servers open printer, scanner security holes
July 26, 2011
This Network World article discusses vulnerabilities in embedded web servers found in copiers, printers, and scanners. - Anonymous hacker claims he broke into wind turbine systems
April 17, 2011
A hacker says a vulnerability in Cisco security management software allowed him to breach a Florida Power & Light SCADA system, giving him access to the controls of the 136-turbine Fort Sumner wind farm. - McAfee Application Control Solution Tested for Compatibility by Siemens-Division Industry Automation
April 13, 2011 - McAfee and Wind River Announce Strategic Agreement for Security Protection beyond the PC
February 16, 2011 - What do 9/11, the Detroit bomber, and ICS security have in common
January 4, 2010
Joseph Weiss, a control systems cybersecurity expert, says that there have been more than 170 control systems cyberincidents — many of these of common origins and continuing to recur. - Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
December 17, 2009
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones because of a shortcoming in the security of the drone network.
Events
No results foundOn Demand
- PCI for POS - Doing it Wrong is Costing You
On Demand Webcast
Resources
McAfee Embedded Control
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McAfee Embedded Control for Aerospace and Defense
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McAfee Embedded Control for Consumer and Home Networking
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McAfee Embedded Control for Healthcare
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McAfee Embedded Control for Integrated Control Systems (ICS)
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Reports
Solution Briefs
White Papers
Community
Forums
No results foundBlogs
- Gift of Malware: Who’s to Blame?
Kim Singletary - May 21, 2012
I was talking to a healthcare organization recently that was in utter disappointment over their new CAT scan machine. When deployed, the machine was already infected with malware, and the bug spread to other systems in the organization. Pre-installed malware is never something you expect to deal with in a new machine, but it can Read more... - Security Challenges in the Rapid Adoption of Technology into the Basics of Driving
Ryan Permeh - January 23, 2012
With some predictions of “self driving cars” being available to consumers as early as 2018, the rapid adoption of technology into the basics of driving is posing some interesting challenges from a security standpoint. In a recent TV news report, Closer Look: Newer Cars May Pose Hacking Risk, McAfee’s Brian Contos discusses some of these Read more... - About Cars Powered By Computing
Gert Jan Schenk - October 04, 2011
During the last couple of weeks, I had some very interesting customer meetings with car manufacturers. I am passionate about cars so I followed the news coming out of the major car event, The 64the International Motor Show (IAA), also known as the Frankfurt Auto Show, with great interest. Almost one million people from all over Read more... - Caution: Automobile Vulnerabilities are Closer Than They Appear
Archive - September 22, 2011
Remember when automobiles provided basic transportation and little else? Well, those days faded from sight in your rear-view mirror years ago. Today’s cars can be started by your mobile phone and disabled from the Internet. Soon, some will even drive themselves. Many new models feature state-of-the-art infotainment systems, social networking capabilities and in-vehicle Wi-Fi hotspots. Read more... - Embedded Devices Are Being Hacked (and Now that I’ve Got Your Attention…)
Archive - September 22, 2011
Have you seen headlines like these lately?: “Skimmer Siphoning Card Data at the Gas Pump” or “Restaurants Sue Vendors After Point-of-Sale Hack.” How about “Insulin Pump Hack Exposes Medical Device Danger” or “Stunex Computer Worm has Vast Repercussions”? ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, kiosks, medical equipment, SCADA systems and other embedded devices are being hacked in ever-increasing Read more...