McAfee Helps Build Secure Bridge to the Cloud
McAfee Helps Build Secure Bridge to the Cloud New McAfee Cloud Security Platform Offers Additional Security
Capabilities from McAfee and Intel Santa Clara, Calif. - May 9, 2011 - McAfee today announced the McAfee
Cloud Security Platform, an innovative new approach to helping
organizations safely and efficiently take advantage of cloud computing.
The new platform achieves this by securing all content and data traffic
- including email, web and identity traffic - moving between an
organization and the cloud. “Once you move data or applications to the cloud, you essentially
lose most - if not all - of your security visibility, which most
organizations find unacceptable,” said Marc Olesen, senior vice
president and general manager, content and cloud security at McAfee.
“By securing the data and traffic before it travels to or through
the cloud, we help businesses extend their security practices and
policies into the cloud.” One Platform, Multiple Security Modules
The McAfee Cloud Security Platform delivers security through highly
integrated, modular solutions that protect both inbound and outbound
traffic moving between the enterprise and the public cloud. Today, the
platform offers the following modules:
● Web Security - McAfee Web Security provides bi-directional
protection for both incoming and outgoing web traffic through proactive
reputation- and intent-based protection.
● Mobile Security - Web traffic generated by smart phones and
tablets can be directed through the McAfee Web Gateway using standard
device management. This ensures that mobile devices are secured with
advanced anti-malware protection and corporate web filtering policies.
● Cloud Access Control - The Intel® Expressway Cloud Access 360
helps an enterprise or cloud provider to provide comprehensive access
control for cloud applications using enterprise identities.
● Email Security - McAfee Email Security delivers total email
protection, integrating comprehensive inbound threat protection with
outbound data loss prevention.
● Web Services Security - The Intel® Expressway Service Gateway
offloads application level API security, data transformation, REST to
SOAP mediation, and identity token exchange to a high speed gateway at
the network edge or in the cloud. Another key aspect of ensuring cloud security is making sure
organizations identify data that should or should not be moved to the
cloud. Using McAfee’s Data Loss Prevention solution, an organization
can first understand where its data resides, classify that data in terms
of importance or sensitivity, build policies to protect that data and
then enforce those policies while data travels within or outside the
organization to the cloud.
McAfee Data Loss Prevention discovers data no matter where it resides
or what format it is in on the network, giving the enterprise the rich
data mining tools required to deliver effective protection and the
creation of more effective policies that work quickly. Centralized
management and reporting is also provided through integration with the
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform. On-premises, SaaS or Hybrid
The security modules can be deployed as an on-premises appliance,
Software-as-a-Service solution or a hybrid of both. This provides
organizations the flexibility and coverage to protect their
headquarters, regional offices and even remote workers using mobile
devices.
Regardless of the deployment form factor, the solutions can be centrally managed through the ePolicy Orchestrator platform or the
McAfee SaaS Control Console. Additionally, the platform and modules are
powered by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, which leverages the cloud
with millions of sensors and hundreds of threat researchers worldwide to
deliver real-time - and even predictive - threat intelligence against
all known and emerging threats. Open API and Additional Security Modules
Using the platform’s built-in Application Programming Interface
(API), McAfee aims to deploy additional security modules in the coming
months to provide even greater and deeper cloud protection. This may
include a variety of solutions, such as tools that can provide greater
granular control over popular social media sites.
For more detailed information on the McAfee Cloud Security Platform and
each of its individual security modules, visit
www.mcafee.com/cloudsecurity. About McAfee, Inc.
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
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