McAfee :

McAfee, Inc. creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. Offering two families of products, McAfee System Protection Solutions, securing desktops and servers, and McAfee Network Protection Solutions, ensuring the protection and performance of the corporate network, McAfee offers computer security to large enterprises, governments, small and medium businesses, and consumers.

McAfee System Protection Solutions
McAfee System Protection Solutions secure all layers of desktop and server systems and applications, protecting against both known and unknown attacks and vulnerabilities. Best-of-breed system protection solutions in the portfolio include:
McAfee Anti-Virus for desktop vulnerability assessment, McAfee Entercept® for preventing system intrusions, and McAfee SpamKiller® to block unsolicited e-mail. These products are all centralized around the company’s industry-leading McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™), which delivers policy management and reporting of both McAfee and third-party security products. In August 2004, McAfee delivered VirusScan® 8.0i, the industry’s first anti-virus solution that offers integrated intrusion prevention. VirusScan 8.0i integrates anti-virus, host intrusion prevention, and personal firewall capabilities to provide comprehensive end-point security. The company also introduced the industry’s first enterprise-class anti-spyware solutions to eliminate malicious code programs such as spyware, adware, dialers, key loggers, password crackers, and remote control programs.

McAfee Network Protection Solutions
McAfee Network Protection Solutions keep both large and smaller distributed networks up and protected from attacks. Best-ofbreed network protection solutions in the portfolio include McAfee Security Forensics, providing data capture, terabyte storage capacity, and information retrieval to analyze important security events and network threats; and McAfee IntruShield,® delivering network-based intrusion prevention. The award-winning family of purpose-built McAfee IntruShield network intrusion detection and prevention appliances integrate patented detection techniques, centralized management, flexible deployment, and the industry’s highest Gigabit port density to enable enterprises, carriers, and service providers to deploy the most accurate and comprehensive realtime attack prevention at multi-gigabit speeds. With a breadth of solutions that scale from hundreds of Mb/s to multi-gigabit bandwidth rates, its proactive protection extends from the network core to the edge and branch office, and secures business availability and critical resources from the threat of known, zero-day, DoS, and encrypted attacks. Through the acquisition of McAfee Foundstone in October 2004, McAfee offers comprehensive risk assessment solutions. The McAfee Foundstone solutions, including McAfee Foundstone Enterprise, Foundstone FS1000 appliance, and Foundstone On-Demand Service, prioritize and correlate assets, vulnerabilities, and threats, and support proactive remediation to protect against critical threats.

Services
All McAfee products are backed by a variety of expert and online services and world-class research. These include McAfee Online, offering consumers, home offices, and partners like AOL and Dell Computer, premium anti-virus, security, and antispam services. The company offers instruction and certification classes at McAfee University.The McAfee Foundstone Professional Services division offers a unique combination of software, services, and education to help organizations continuously and measurably protect the most important assets from the most critical threats. Through a strategic approach to security, Foundstone identifies, recommends, and implements the right balance of technology, people, and process to manage digital risk and leverage security investments more effectively. Additionally, the integrated McAfee Expert Services™ group provides assessment, design, deployment, and downtime emergency response in both the security and network traffic analysis arenas.