McAfee announces security management enhancements for its security solutions.

Posted on September 12, 2011 by iGennie Technical Services

McAfee announced the enhancements to its security management solution, adding automated and real-time security and risk analytics to enhance the enterprise security. An integration of McAfee Risk Advisor, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform and McAfee endpoint products, the McAfee security management solution helps customers identify, manage, assess and report on enterprise security and risk profiles. It provides the visibility of security system across the organization, be it for a network, hosted desktop, server or the on-premises.

Enhancements to the updated solution include:

Visibility into Security Posture:

The automated real time security enhancements allow the users to proactively identify, manage, assess and report on their security profile. Inclusion of the ePolicy Orchestrator platform in the development of solution for enterprise security provides the access and visibility through the security and risk events for the complete IT environment. Leveraging to the latest version of ePolicy Orchestrator platform, the visibility of security system supports both SaaS and on-premise security information through McAfee endpoint solutions.

Proactive Risk Analytics:

Leveraging on the preferences offered by McAfee Risk Advisor, the organizations are able to analyze the effects of the changes in their business, on their security and risk profile. This protects the organization from the risk and threats to their security that the potential activities in their business can cause. Moreover, the automated awareness for applications allows the management to connect the risk and threats for security, with their business applications. This helps in prioritizing the crucial security issues for the organization, thereby generating a concern within the management for the protection and security of their business.

Simplified, Automated Operations:

This provides the technical management and integration for not only small, but even for larger security systems, with just a single management interface. The automation capabilities comprise of configuration wizards, automated installation, drag-and-drop analytic dashboards, policy assignments and workflow, automated web APIs and software update notifications for connecting the security systems with other IT processes.