McAfee and RSA Announce Joint Compliance and Risk Management Solution
New Solution Designed to Correlate Device-level Security Risks with
Overall Impacts on Business Performance
FOCUS 11, LAS VEGAS - October 17, 2011 - McAfee and RSA, The Security
Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced a new joint solution based
on their existing technology partnership
(http://www.rsa.com/press_release.aspx?id=11325). This joint solution
integrates security data from the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® platform
(McAfee ePO™) with business infrastructure and compliance data in the
RSA Archer eGRC Platform and the RSA Archer Enterprise Management
solution. By connecting this data, customers can better leverage
business information together with security data to gain a deeper
understanding of risk and compliance issues.
“The McAfee and RSA solution provides greater visibility into the
state of security and compliance across the enterprise infrastructure
and enables a more comprehensive understanding of the business’ risk
and compliance posture,” said Dave Anderson, senior director of
Security Management at McAfee. “The integration allows organizations
to utilize McAfee security management products to manage system level
security while also incorporating data and findings from those products
into their risk and compliance management processes within the RSA
Archer eGRC Platform.”
“Both IT and security organizations are facing challenges today
managing myriad tools and data that help them protect and keep the
business up and running,” said David Walter, senior director of RSA,
The Security Division of EMC. “This integrated offering provides
customers the opportunity to improve IT-GRC programs with information
from security management processes. The Archer eGRC platform understands
business criticality - adding this enables customers to prioritize the
issues being documented in McAfee ePO against their business objectives.
This enables better business decisions about where resources are placed,
resulting in an effective risk-based way to respond quickly to new
threats, address program deficiencies and reduce vulnerabilities across
all domains and lines of business in the enterprise.”
McAfee and RSA are delivering on a technology partnership announced
earlier this year where both companies formally joined each other’s
interoperability partner programs. The two industry leaders are teaming
to offer integrated solutions designed to help customers address complex
security challenges, lower risk, improve compliance and ensure data
security across the IT infrastructure.
RSA® Archer™ Enterprise Management provides a central repository of
information on an enterprise’s business hierarchy and operational
infrastructure. This web-based solution allows enterprises to develop an
aggregate view of organizational divisions, determine the criticality of
supporting technologies and use that information in the cont
ext of eGRC
processes. McAfee ePO enables organizations to centrally manage their
enterprise security posture through an open framework that unifies
security management for systems, applications, networks, data and
compliance solutions.
The integrated solution between the RSA Archer eGRC Platform and
ePolicy Orchestrator software and other McAfee security management
products includes the following capabilities:
● The integration can populate the Devices application within RSA
Archer with systems in the infrastructure being managed by McAfee ePO.
This ongoing synchronization helps ensure that device/platform-level
information is consistent between GRC processes and IT operations.
● Within the Devices application in the RSA Archer eGRC platform,
customers can gain visibility into ownership and relationships to
business processes and applications for a better understanding of the
criticality of the issues captured from ePO and the appropriate
accountability to ensure proper and timely response.
● McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software, McAfee Host Intrusion
Prevention, McAfee Vulnerability Manager, McAfee Policy Auditor and
McAfee Risk Advisor products all provide additional device level
information within McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software to better define
the current device level security within RSA Archer. Each product also
provides additional reporting data as well as insight into the current
state of security within the infrastructure.
● Risk and compliance calculations and reporting can be based on the
data coming from McAfee Risk Advisor and improve overall visibility of
the current security risk and holistic visibility of how that device's
security risk impacts overall business performance.
Availability
The Integration Package is available immediately through RSA Archer on
the RSA Archer eGRC Exchange (https://exchange.archer-tech.com/). For
additional information on RSA products, visit http://www.rsa.com. For
additional information on McAfee products, visit
http://www.mcafee.com/us/business-home.aspx.
About McAfee
McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC),
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 its unrivaled 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 is relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep
our customers safe. http://www.mcafee.com
McAfee Canada is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, with regional
offices across Canada. The company's Consumer Software Research and
Development facility is based in Waterloo, Ontario.
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 (http://www.rsa.com/glossary/default.asp?id=1111),
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.
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