McAfee Enhances Network Security Platform

McAfee has announced enhancements to its Network Security Platform, to provide unparalleled threat protection, network performance and operational excellence. The latest release of McAfee Network Security Platform includes enhanced botnet control through reputation intelligence, virtual network inspection and a traffic analysis port for network monitoring, forensics and other advanced analysis engines. With this release, McAfee continues to move beyond traditional Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), by providing a greater level of network intelligence across both physical and virtual environments.

“Our customers need more than just signature-based IPS,” said Rees Johnson, senior vice president and general manager of network security, McAfee. “McAfee Network Security Platform goes well beyond traditional Network IPS with the addition of McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, support for virtual environments, and the ability to correlate across endpoint and network products.”

Real-time, reputation-based intelligence through McAfee Global Threat Intelligence provides McAfee Network Security Platform users with additional context for enforcing network security policies, not to mention faster, more accurate threat detection.

“Virtualisation is becoming a standard part of every enterprise datacentre infrastructure - be it in-house or in the cloud - and organisations are recognising that they must extend enterprise-class security and management into the virtual environment,” said Preston Futrell, President and CEO, Reflex Systems. “We are pleased to partner with McAfee to help customers seamlessly integrate virtualisation security and management into their existing security infrastructure, systems and best-practices.”

Together, McAfee and Reflex Systems will offer integrated virtual and physical security and management that enables customers to holistically monitor and understand security issues, easily apply best practices, and provide comprehensive reporting for compliance purposes across the current and next generation datacentre infrastructure.