SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overview McAfee is announcing ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0, redefining the way security and compliance are managed. McAfee is unveiling a series of firsts. McAfee is announcing a Security Innovation Alliance designed to help third party technology companies integrate with ePO 4.0. McAfee currently has 30,000 customers using ePO to manage nearly 54 million endpoints. Q: What is McAfee announcing on September 17th? A: McAfee is announcing two things: 1) McAfee is releasing ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0 (ePO), the fourth generation of McAfee's award-winning security management technology. ePO 4.0 provides powerful unified management across multiple security and compliance products as well as and reporting and auditing features. 2) McAfee is unveiling the Security Innovation Alliance program designed to help technology partners easily integrate their products with ePolicy Orchestrator. This move is designed to ease the integration burden for customers, while expanding McAfee's ecosystem. Q: What are the problems that customers are facing? A: Security products traditionally were point products that, once installed, provided protection with little or no need for full-time administration. In recent years, integrated and well-managed security and compliance products have become paramount for customers as new threats and regulations made it increasingly difficult to correlate information needed for effective and timely response. Q: How do McAfee's products address these problems? A: McAfee has listened to customer feedback and is releasing a product that redefines security management: -- McAfee ePO is the first and only platform that manages systems, networks, physical and virtual machines -- McAfee ePO is the first and only platform that lets organizations centrally manage security and compliance products from multiple vendors, not just those offered by McAfee -- McAfee ePO offers unprecedented cost savings -- Other security companies are playing catch-up -- McAfee's competition (Symantec and Sophos) are just now launching single console/agent for system threat management McAfee developed its approach to security risk management to ease the burden on IT operations. ePO is a key component of that approach. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0 introduces new capabilities in reporting and policy assignment that can significantly reduce costs and enable increased threat protection and compliance management. Significant feature additions include: -- Web-based access to customized, roll-based console -- Dashboard-based custom configurable reports that can be scheduled and e-mailed -- Workflow enhancements to improve operational efficiency, integrated reporting across system and network security environment, and enable knowledge-driven security for more effective and efficient security decisions Q: How do these "series of firsts" translate into business value? A: Because ePO reduces security exposure, lowers costs, insures business continuity and helps customers meet industry compliance requirements. The integration of security and compliance solutions provides the backbone for intelligent security, by allowing applications to react automatically based on rules. This intelligence will allow businesses to save time and resources. Q: What is ePO's relationship to McAfee Total Protection? A: ePO is the central management console that is included with McAfee Total Protection. Q. Why did you launch the Security Innovation Alliance? A: McAfee is launching its strategic partnership program to enable partners to easily integrate with ePO. SRM is a heterogeneous challenge, and McAfee is working with its technology partners to deliver on the promise of security intelligence and compliance optimization. The McAfee Security Innovation Alliance is the foundation of the McAfee technology ecosystem, established to increase the customer value of McAfee security risk management solutions. Working together across the Security Innovation Alliance, McAfee and its technology partners deliver on the promise of security and compliance optimization. Q. How is this different from what you announced in June? A. In June, we announced the public beta of ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0. Now, we are announcing the product's availability, along with the Security Innovation Alliance, a new program that will speed the integration of third-party applications. Q: What is the competitive advantage of this approach? A: This is the first product to offer intelligent security and compliance optimization that delivers measurable value rather than just added cost. We break the tie of expense to value by reducing exposure, lowering cost, and insuring business continuity. Symantec claims to have a small footprint on the client but McAfee found out that SYMC uses various processes and actually eats up nearly four times as much memory as they claim. Symantec is now using the same engine for consumers and enterprises. The businesses get the same engine used in Norton 360. So, is SYMC making businesses pay big bucks for a beefed up consumer product? McAfee has enterprise class products that are specific for the enterprise. Q: What is the primary customer segment? A: This solution is for all enterprises. Q: What Other Security Risk Management Products does McAfee offer today? A: McAfee offers a full line of products for managing threat protection and compliance. We continue to work towards integrating all of our products into a seamless security risk management portfolio. Q: How do McAfee partners benefit from today's announcements? A: Selling McAfee products is a differentiator. Partners can build services around best of breed products backed by the leading dedicated security company. There are huge service opportunities, including the ability to offer risk assessments, installations, deployments, data discovery, policy tuning and more. With ePO installed on more than 50 million endpoints, there is a big opportunity to sell into the McAfee installed base. The new Security Innovation Alliance will allow technology partners to integrate their applications with ePO. Channel partners will be able to sell third party products, alongside McAfee products, with the assurance that the products will interoperate. Q: When will this product be available? A: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is available from September 25th. Q: Where can I find more information about this product? A: For more information on McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator go to: http://www.mcafee.com/ePO Q: Are there any partners for the Security Innovation Alliance? A: We will be announcing a series of partners in the coming months. Q: Where can I find more information about the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance? A: For more information the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance program go to: http://www.mcafee.com/sia McAfee is a registered trademark of McAfee, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. McAfee Red in connection with security is distinctive of McAfee brand products. All other registered and unregistered trademarks herein are the sole property of their respective owners. (C) 2006 - 2007 McAfee, Inc. All rights reserved. DATASOURCE: McAfee, Inc. CONTACT: Sal Viveros of McAfee Inc., +1-408-346-3696, ; or Ian Bain of Red Consultancy, +1-415-618-8806, , for McAfee, Inc. Web site: http://www.mcafee.com/

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