McAfee, Inc. has announced that it will be expanding the existing application protection in its McAfee Firewall Enterprise appliance product line. With this expansion, the product will give security administrators visibility, recognition and policy enforcement of over thousands of applications that are invisible to conventional firewall technology.
“Adding these new capabilities, backed by the researchers at McAfee Labs, sets us apart from the competition,” said Dan Ryan, Executive Vice-President & General Manager of the Network Security business unit at McAfee. “McAfee Firewall Enterprise already provides comprehensive application threat and malware blocking, as well as industry-leading URL filtering and TrustedSource reputation-based blocking capabilities. Now, we are raising the bar to give customers an unprecedented level of application protection.”
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Combined with application identification, the user awareness capabilities of the McAfee Firewall Enterprise solution will provide market-leading network protection that can be easily mapped to corporate security policies. Based on McAfee’s pioneering user-based activity monitoring and visualization technology, McAfee is able to tightly correlate the user and application information offering a level of clarity not possible with other network security products.
Besides, McAfee also continues to work closely with customers in various stages of development as part of the Joint Development and Beta program, ensuring that McAfee’s product reflects customer needs. This unique Beta program ensures that all phases of product development keep the focus on customer requirements by assessing continuous feedback and requesting involvement from customers.
