McAfee gets a three-tier alliance

Bengaluru : McAfee announced that it is teaming with industry leaders
HP ProCurve, Intel Corp and VMware Inc. The cooperation is designed to deliver
best-in-class security for HP ProCurve networking products, Intel business PC
platforms and the VMware platform, said a press release.

"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 CEO, McAfee. "We're excited to work side-by-side
with the world's leading names in technology to deliver on today's security
needs,” added DeWalt.

McAfee and HP ProCurve have created a strategic alliance with the intent to
jointly develop and deliver network security solutions. Under this agreement the
partners would build security solutions that combine McAfee's information
security products with HP ProCurve's networking product portfolio, it added.

"Together, HP ProCurve and McAfee will develop and deliver optimal
secure networking solutions with the assurance of successful product
interoperability for enterprise and mid-market customers," said Marius Haas,
Senior VP and GM, HP ProCurve.

He stated that the agreement demonstrates the ability of HP ProCurve to
provide a flexible and standards-based solution to optimize deployment of
security solutions for enterprise and mid-market customers.

McAfee would work with Intel to take advantage of Intel vPro technology to
provide security below the operating system layer on PCs.

Specifically, McAfee would 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 award-winning ePolicy Orchestrator management
console, it said. "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, VP, GM-Business Client Group, Intel Corporation.

VMware would ship McAfee VirusScan Plus software with VMware Fusion-VMware's
award-winning desktop virtualization product for running Windows applications
side-by-side with Mac applications on any Intel-based Mac. VMware Fusion
customers would 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,
VP-Infrastructure Alliances, VMware.

He added that the 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