McAfee, Inc. technology is attractive as never before

It was announced that the McAfee Network Security Platform M-8000 appliance is the first Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to receive the 10-Gigabit IPS' certification as part of NSS Labs' 10 Gbps IPS Group Test. And it is considered represents the industry's most stringent test criteria available. This certification is issued as a result of an extensive and rigorous testing methodology specifically for 10-Gigabit network IPS devices. According to the NSS Labs report, the McAfee Network Security Platform M-8000 appliance achieved exceptional results in virtually every major test category; including security effectiveness, performance, stability and reliability, and management and usability. It was pointed by Rick Moy, president of  NSS Labs that the security effectiveness of the McAfee M-8000 appliance was nearly perfect in all categories, catching 618 of 622 exploits (99.4%). The product had no trouble identifying attacks, even when obfuscated using a wide range of evasion techniques. Resistance to false positives appeared to be high, even under our most strenuous tests. 

And certainly this new technology helped the incorporation reached another achievement. McAfee, Inc. expanded new program to support team selling with select partners. It is called McAfee Security Innovation Alliance (SIA). And it will improve The Sales Teaming Program. The latter one will include select SIA partners that complement the McAfee product portfolio and enable the McAfee sales force and channel to drive more complete security solution relationships with enterprise customers. It is expected that Through the Sales Teaming Program, SIA partners will benefit from a more proactive and mutually rewarding selling model. From a customer perspective, this will provide easier access and faster evaluation of "McAfee Compatible" solutions. The McAfee Sales Teaming Program was launched this week at McAfee's annual Sales Kick-Off event, which is attended by more than 1,000 McAfee sales and channel personnel. The inaugural members of the invitation-only program include AccessData, Application Security, Bit9, Catbird, Guardium, LogRhythm, Secerno and SenSage; representing the markets of forensics, database security, whitelisting, virtualization security and log management.