McAfee, Inc. Expands Security Innovation Alliance to Support Team Selling with Select Partners

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced a new program tier in the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance™ (SIA). The Sales Teaming Program will include select SIA partners that complement the McAfee product portfolio and enable the McAfee sales force and channel to drive more complete security solution relationships with enterprise customers.

The McAfee Sales Teaming Program was launched this week at McAfee’s annual Sales Kick-Off event, which is attended by more than 1,000 McAfee sales and channel personnel. The inaugural members of the invitation-only program include AccessData, Application Security, Bit9, Catbird, Guardium, LogRhythm, Secerno and SenSage; representing the markets of forensics, database security, whitelisting, virtualization security and log management.

Through the Sales Teaming Program, SIA partners will benefit from a more proactive and mutually rewarding selling model. From a customer perspective, this will provide easier access and faster evaluation of "McAfee Compatible” solutions.

McAfee also announced four new "McAfee Compatible” solutions from its current SIA partners, including Absolute Software, Passfaces, MXI Security and Q1 Labs. There are also nine new members that have joined the program, including Agiliance, AirPatrol Corporation, Archer Technologies, Arxan, ClearPoint Metrics, HP, RedSeal Systems, Secure Passage and Verdiem.

"McAfee now has more than 40 partners in the SIA program committed to helping our joint customers drive operational savings with ‘McAfee Compatible’ products,” said Joe Gottlieb, vice president of corporate strategy and technology alliances, McAfee. "As our program begins to flourish, we see numerous opportunities to assemble a wide range of product innovations that enable more effective security and compliance management workflows. Taken together, these benefits will help our customers find the savings they need to fund the advancements they require to keep up with the threat horizon.”

The McAfee Security Innovation Alliance program accelerates the development of interoperable security products and simplifies the integration of those products within complex customer environments. Supported by the program, partners integrate their products with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™), McAfee’s industry-leading security and compliance management platform, and/or other McAfee products, such as McAfee Endpoint Encryption and McAfee Vulnerability Management Service.

For more information on how to become a Security Innovation Alliance partner, please visit www.mcafee.com/sia.

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Partners Demonstrate Proven Commitment to Compatibility Testing:

Absolute Software

Absolute Software provides laptop theft recovery, remote data delete and off-the-network IT asset management services. Absolute’s ePO plug-in automatically deploys Computrace® via ePO User Tasks and delivers graphical laptop inventory reports without leaving the ePO dashboard – allowing IT asset managers to track missing computers visually from within a single, intuitive user interface.

"In today’s laptop security reality, top providers of technologies like antivirus, data protection and theft recovery must work closely together to drive the interoperability of their solutions,” said Richard Cohen, senior vice president of business development at Absolute. "We are very excited to make our suite of Computrace laptop security solutions easier to deploy, access and administer alongside other important technologies through McAfee’s Security Innovation Alliance.”

MXI Security

MXI Security™ provides managed portable security solutions that combine the power of secure storage with identity and access management services. MXI Security’s Stealth MXP USB devices are fully compatible for pre-boot authentication with McAfee Endpoint Encryption.

"We are proud to have such a long-standing relationship with McAfee in the government space and beyond. This successful union has allowed us to integrate our respective state-of-the-art security solutions for the benefit of our customers,” said Lawrence Reusing, chief executive officer, MXI Security. "We will continue to work closely with McAfee to bring our clients unparalleled portable security solutions for their most sensitive data and technology systems.”

Passfaces

Passfaces is a graphical, strong authentication technology that works with existing access systems to replace or reinforce passwords and is a fully-integrated, authentication "token” option for McAfee Endpoint Encryption. Passfaces is entirely software-based, so there is no user device to purchase, deploy and manage; and there is nothing for users to lose, forget or leave with their PC.

"Passwords are usually the weakest link in any IT security system,” said Paul Barrett, chief executive officer, Passfaces Corporation. "However, hardware-based strong authentication products – such as smartcards and USB tokens – reduce reliability for users and are costly to deploy and support. Passfaces’ software-based solution is a very cost-effective means of adding an additional authentication factor to McAfee Endpoint Encryption. And Passfaces is unique in harnessing the brain’s innate ability to recognize familiar faces – making it completely intuitive to use and pretty much 100 percent reliable.”

Q1 Labs

Q1 Labs’ acclaimed QRadar™ security information and event management (SIEM) offering now integrates with McAfee ePO. By combining ePO's asset-based system security information with QRadar's ability to monitor user, application, data center, and network-based security information, customers gain end-to-end visibility and can leverage the inherent operational efficiencies of the high-value, cost-effective QRadar network security management family.

"This new integration work between McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and Q1 Labs’ highly scalable QRadar SIEM platform combines end point security with network security and provides customers with a broader view of what's happening in their enterprises in the areas of log management, threat and fraud management, and compliance management,” said Tom Turner, vice president of marketing and channel sales at Q1 Labs.

New Partners Joining the Program:

Agiliance

Agiliance provides fully automated IT Governance Risk and Compliance platforms. Integration with McAfee ePO software will enable mutual customers to gain immediate insight into their enterprise security and compliance posture, and take steps to mitigate or remedy any gaps using ePO.

"Agiliance is excited to partner with McAfee to bring our broad and complementary security aggregation, compliance reporting and risk management into ePolicy Orchestrator,” said Pravin Kothari, founder and chief technology officer. "Our mutual customers will benefit from a wide range of summary reports on risk and compliance in ePO dashboards, helping them respond effectively to compliance gaps and security threats with appropriate countermeasures.”

AirPatrol Corporation

AirPatrol Corporation provides wireless security for all types of mobile devices and provides valuable location, call, and other event information to the leading SIEM and Log Management platforms. This enables governments and organizations of all sizes to extend the security capabilities necessary to support PCI, SOX, HIPPA compliance, as well as to enable historical event activity for Forensic review and investigation.

"Wireless devices - both computers and phones - have greatly improved worker productivity,” said Tim Carlsen, senior vice president of corporate development from AirPatrol Corporation. "Now they no longer have to present such a challenge to manage, or worse, threaten, an organization's security. Our Endpoint and Enterprise security platform will extend the capabilities of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator by adding location, call and other event information for all wireless devices managed by McAfee.”

Archer Technologies

The Archer SmartSuite Framework offers robust integration capabilities via the Archer Data Feed Manager, which enables clients to integrate detailed scan reports (including vulnerabilities) from McAfee Vulnerability Manager. This solution allows customers to manage their organization's risk by proactively identifying, tracking, and managing the repair of critical network vulnerabilities.

In the near future Archer will be integrating with McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator solution. This integration will enable Archer customers to import baseline violations, risk and additional information that can be mapped to business critical assets, policies and controls. By linking this information within Archer, clients can reduce enterprise risks, manage and demonstrate compliance, automate business processes, and gain visibility into corporate risk and security controls.

Arxan

Arxan protects running applications with real-time security checks and tampering alerts that will be integrated with McAfee ePO. Security administrators will receive immediate notification on and remediate against tampering attempts that threaten application and data security.

"Applications are vulnerable to malware or insider threats that seek to tamper and gain unauthorized access to sensitive data or intellectual property,” said Tom van Gorder, vice president of business development at Arxan Technologies. "Arxan’s partnership with McAfee will bring into ePolicy Orchestrator a unique layer of application security through our GuardIT product that enables enterprises to obtain real-time notification of application tampering. This dynamic detection and intelligence in the integrated solution will allow customers to mitigate business risk by gaining more complete application control.”

ClearPoint Metrics

ClearPoint Metrics solutions enable IT and Security executives and their teams to consistently and reliably measure, monitor and communicate the state, business impact, and effectiveness of their IT governance, risk and compliance initiatives. ClearPoint's data adapters use agentless, read-only technologies that connect, collect and fuse data from a variety of third-party security solutions, such as McAfee.

"We are pleased to say that ClearPoint Metrics already has a data adapter for McAfee,” said James Acquaviva, chief executive officer, ClearPoint Metrics. "We now plan to add our security metrics and scorecards to ePolicy Orchestrator, while providing easy drill-downs for deeper analysis. We are very excited about our participation in the McAfee SIA program and believe this partnership will arm mutual customers with a clear analysis and forecast of their current and imminent security threats to make those strategic decisions.”

HP

HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. HP's Secure Advantage solutions provide an integrated approach to securing this portfolio, allowing customers to more easily protect resources and data. By combining HP technologies and services with McAfee as part of the SIA program, enterprises gain end-to-end solutions that better address critical security challenges, improve risk management and ease the path to compliance.

"Companies of all sizes need security solutions that can protect their resources and data," said Chris Whitener, chief strategist, HP Secure Advantage, "Together, HP's Secure Advantage portfolio, coupled with McAfee solutions, delivers integrated security controls that are easier for customers to deploy and manage, improving their return on security investments.”

RedSeal Systems

The integration of RedSeal Security Risk Manager with McAfee ePO will enable customers to easily see the enterprise-wide risk associated with systems throughout the IT infrastructure. RedSeal analyzes how network controls, potential leapfrog attacks and system vulnerabilities interact together to create true exposure. Using this analysis, it automatically prioritizes patching and other remediation options to improve overall security posture.

"Truly understanding business exposure requires analyzing how all of your networks and systems work together to deliver security,” said Steve Dauber, Vice President of Marketing for RedSeal Systems. "Our partnership with McAfee will deliver our joint customers understanding of their overall security posture, enabling them to make informed decisions about how to enhance it.”

Secure Passage

Secure Passage is a leading provider of security analysis and compliance solutions that simplify and automate the analysis of firewall change management processes to enhance security, optimize performance, and speed compliance reporting. The company’s flagship product, FireMon, analyzes changes and performs audits in real-time, simplifies policy management, and enforces configuration governance across firewalls, switches, routers and other network devices.

"We are delighted to have joined the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance,” said Secure Passage Chief Operating Officer Rob Bykowski. "The combination of McAfee’s comprehensive enterprise risk management expertise and Secure Passage’s scalable, extensible and secure architecture will enable global enterprises to reduce operational costs, improve performance and enhance security of their networks and network devices. We look forward to enabling mutual customers to maximize their security and help them meet their compliance requirements.”

Verdiem

Verdiem provides enterprise software solutions to reduce the energy consumption of PC networks. Its SURVEYOR software increases business profitability and sustainability by monitoring, measuring and managing IT energy use and related greenhouse gas emissions. The company¹s relationships with technology and energy efficiency leaders help it to deliver best-in-class solutions to global businesses and individuals.

"Verdiem shares McAfee's goal of reducing the complexity associated with managing enterprise networks and responding to possible threats,” said John MacWillie, vice president of business development at Verdiem. "This integration will allow joint customers to use McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator to deploy Surveyor agents, coordinate power management with scheduled scans and updates, and get status reports on networked PCs power cycles to manage energy costs, while also securing their network.”