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 anti-virus
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.
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.
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.