MCAFEE LAUNCHES NEW DATA CENTRE SECURITY SUITES
The IT Security Giant Launches Innovative New Solutions to Address Security Challenges for Data Centres in the Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments
McAfee recently announced four new Data Centre Security Suites to help secure servers and databases in the data centre. The suites offer a unique combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualisation technologies for protecting servers and virtual desktops. These solutions provide optimal security for servers and databases in physical, virtualised and cloud based data centres, with minimal impact on server resources which is a key demand for data centres. “Performance and security are key concerns for servers in the physical, virtualised or cloud based Data Centres,” said Craig Hockley, McAfee Regional Director for South Africa and sub Saharan Africa. “The new server security suites from McAfee, based on its application whitelisting, virtualisation and blacklisting and AV technologies, provide an enhanced security posture while maintaining the high server performance needs of the Data Centre.” The suites offer customers the ability to protect their physical and virtual servers and virtual desktops with a unique combination of technologies in a single solution. • McAfee Data Centre Security Suite for Server provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimised virtualisation support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types • McAfee Data Centre Security Suite for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provides comprehensive security for virtual desktop deployments that won’t compromise performance or the user experience • McAfee Data Centre Security Suite for Server–Hypervisor Edition provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimised virtualisation support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types and is licensed per Hypervisor
“Performance and security are key concerns for servers in the physical, virtualised or cloud based Data Centres”
Craig Hockley, McAfee Regional Director for South Africa and sub Saharan Africa
• McAfee Database Server Protection offers data base activity monitoring and vulnerability assessment in a single suite, for all major database servers in the data centre “McAfee is leading the industry with these new solutions for protecting servers in the data centre,” said Candace Worley, senior vice president and general manager of endpoint security at McAfee. “The combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualisation in a single solution, offers an optimal security posture for protecting servers in the data centres. These solutions address the need in the industry to offer solutions that provide the highest level of protection with minimal impact on the resources they are deployed on and in a wide range of customised licensing options.”
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