McAfee Teams With HP ProCurve, Intel, VMware To Deliver Security

McAfee is teaming with industry players HP ProCurve, Intel Corporation and VMware to deliver best-in-class security for HP ProCurve networking products, Intel business PC platforms and the VMware platform.

“The era of providing complete protection simply by installing antivirus software on a PC has long passed. In today’s world of sophisticated malware, targeted threats, and multi-stage attacks, security needs to be everywhere,” said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive officer of McAfee. “We’re excited to work side-by-side with leading names in technology to deliver on today’s security needs.”

HP ProCurve

McAfee and HP ProCurve have created a strategic alliance with the intent to jointly develop and deliver network security solutions. Under this agreement, McAfee and HP ProCurve will build security solutions that combine McAfee’s information security products with HP ProCurve’s networking product portfolio. The joint solutions will simplify networking and security from the edge to the network core, delivering security protection for companies of all sizes.

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“Together, HP ProCurve and McAfee will develop and deliver optimal secure networking solutions with the assurance of product interoperability for enterprise and mid-market customers,” said Marius Haas, senior vice president and general manager, HP ProCurve.

Intel

McAfee will work with Intel to take advantage of Intel vPro technology to provide security below the operating system layer on PCs. This forthcoming McAfee technology will provide organisations using PCs featuring Intel vPro technology with improved security and reporting while requiring fewer IT resources.

Specifically, McAfee will use Intel vPro technology to allow IT to discover and remediate security problems on PCs outside of business hours and report the health of the PC back to McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator management console.

“Working in conjunction with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator management console, Intel vPro technology enables IT to keep PCs up to date with the latest security patches, even in off hours when PCs are turned off,” said Rob Crooke, vice president and general manager, Business Client Group, Intel Corporation.

VMware

VMware is shipping McAfee VirusScan Plus software with VMware Fusion – VMware’s desktop virtualisation product for running Windows applications side-by-side with Mac applications on any Intel-based Mac. This means that VMware Fusion customers will receive antivirus, antispyware and Windows firewall software from McAfee at no additional cost.

“The addition of McAfee security software to VMware Fusion helps ensure that our customers can run Windows safely on their Macs,” said Shekar Ayyar, vice president, infrastructure alliances at VMware. “In addition, McAfee’s security solutions are being built to leverage VMware VMsafe technology to provide customers with better security solutions on the VMware platform than in physical environments.”