SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- 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:
- 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.
- Collaboration and knowledge-sharing between McAfee®
Global Threat Intelligence™ and the RSA FraudAction™ 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.
- 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. http://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.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined
under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could
differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking
statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not
limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market
conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology
spending; (iii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology;
(iv) risks associated with managing the growth of our business,
including risks associated with acquisitions and investments and
the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and
achieving anticipated synergies; (v) competitive factors,
including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product
introductions; (vi) the relative and varying rates of product price
and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product
and services revenues; (vii) component and product quality and
availability; (viii) the transition to new products, the
uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and
rapid technological and market change; (ix) insufficient, excess or
obsolete inventory; (x) war or acts of terrorism; (xi) the ability
to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xii) fluctuating
currency exchange rates; (xiii) litigation that we may be involved
in; and (xiv) other one-time events and other important factors
disclosed previously and from time to time in the filings of EMC
Corporation, the parent company of RSA, with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission. EMC and RSA disclaim any obligation
to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of
this release.
NOTE: McAfee and ePolicy Orchestrator are registered trademarks
or trademarks of McAfee, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. RSA,
enVision, Archer, SecurID and FraudAction are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries. Other marks may be claimed as the property of
others.
SOURCE EMC Corporation