McAfee and RSA Form Technology Partnership
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Security Leaders Team Up to Provide Customers with Interoperable Solutions to Address Dynamic Security Challenges
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15, 2011 - RSA® CONFERENCE -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) and RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced a technology partnership to offer integrated solutions designed to help customers address complex security challenges, lower risk, improve compliance and ensure data security across the IT infrastructure. By formally joining each other's interoperability partner programs, McAfee and RSA are kicking off joint development efforts that will offer customers combined solutions from both industry leaders to harness IT security and event data and to deliver a comprehensive view of security risk.
"Addressing new, complex and ever changing threats requires a holistic approach to security that closed environments just can't offer. Our open McAfee platforms enable partners, like RSA, to provide better and more secure customer environments," said Dave DeWalt, president and CEO of McAfee. "By partnering with RSA in the areas of security management and risk and compliance management we are further helping customers to focus on business and more effectively manage risk, improve security operations and create proactive security architectures."
"Security is maturing into a model that requires an intelligent platform that can harness raw IT and security data and deliver a single view of risk to organizations that is correlated and is meaningful to the business," said Art Coviello, Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "Effective security management takes an ecosystem of partners who recognize that no single vendor is capable of addressing the amalgam of threats and security challenges faced by enterprises and end users. Together, RSA and McAfee are committing to a path of bringing new ideas, best practices and proven solutions designed to help organizations take a risk-based approach to apply business-aligned security controls in the enterprise."
Companies Enhancing Endpoint Security and Vulnerability Management Capabilities
McAfee and RSA today provide integration between McAfee® Vulnerability Manager and the RSA Archer® eGRC platform to help customers address the business impact, policy enforcement and compliance reporting of enterprise vulnerabilities.
Through RSA's participation in the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance program, the companies plan to deepen the integration between the RSA Archer eGRC platform and the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® platform. The integration will help organizations with enhanced management of organizational risk by proactively identifying, tracking and mitigating critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and security events.
The companies will also integrate ePolicy Orchestrator software and the RSA enVision® platform to enhance both the real-time detection and automated response to attacks. RSA and McAfee will both share information about various risks such as security threats, compliance violations, and policy breaches all gathered through their respective platforms. This information will be intelligently analyzed to enable customers to respond with targeted countermeasures, audit and remediation controls.
McAfee and RSA also recently completed updated interoperability certification of McAfee® Endpoint Encryption and RSA SecurID® 800 hybrid authenticators. Making these two leading security products work together is designed to give customers enhanced capabilities to prevent unauthorized access and loss or theft of sensitive data from endpoint devices.
Future Areas of Inventive Collaboration in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Standards, Fraud Mitigation and Risk and Compliance Management
McAfee and RSA plan to develop additional joint security solutions, share knowledge and develop best practices in key technology areas featuring integrated and interoperable versions of their products. Future development projects include:
o Develop industry standards and best practices for DLP solutions. The
companies are working together to facilitate sharing of data across DLP
platforms. The effort is designed to broaden the DLP ecosystem and
enable organizations to leverage existing investments in security and
risk management solutions.
o Collaboration and knowledge-sharing between McAfee® Global Threat
Intelligence(TM) and the RSA FraudAction(TM) Research Lab and Anti-Fraud
Command Center to exchange threat intelligence feeds of the latest
phishing, Trojan and malware activity. The information in the feeds
will be used in products and services from both security leaders to
further enhance the real-time threat protection, response and mitigation
to financial institutions, large enterprises and government cyber
defense teams world-wide.
o Joint development of solutions for governance, risk and compliance
featuring technology from the RSA Archer eGRC platform and McAfee Risk
and Compliance solutions, including McAfee Policy Auditor and McAfee
Vulnerability Manager. The collaboration will help organizations take a
more holistic view to risk mitigation as it pertains to business
critical assets, corporate policies and regulatory compliance.
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. Backed by unrivalled McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. McAfee secures your digital world. www.mcafee.com
About RSA
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security, risk and compliance management solutions for business acceleration. RSA helps the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. These challenges include managing organizational risk, safeguarding mobile access and collaboration, proving compliance, and securing virtual and cloud environments.
Combining business-critical controls in identity assurance, encryption & key management, SIEM, Data Loss Prevention and Fraud Protection with industry leading eGRC capabilities and robust consulting services, RSA brings visibility and trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.
SOURCE EMC Corporation
CONTACT: Erica Coleman, McAfee, Inc., +1-408-346-5624, erica_coleman@mcafee.com, or Kevin Kempskie, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, +1-617-413-4333, kevin.kempskie@rsa.com
Web Site: www.emc.com
