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San Jose, CA – February 13, 2006 – Mirage Networks®, developers of award-winning Network Access Control (NAC) technology, and McAfee, Inc., the leading dedicated security technology company , today announced an alliance designed to increase the value proposition of the Foundstone scanning technology when integrated with Mirage’s NAC solution. This offers customers a collaborative network security approach that delivers best-in-class vulnerability scanning and network access control capabilities.
“Customers deploy McAfee® Foundstone® solutions in order to mitigate risk and maximize the protection of their networks,” said Eric Winsborrow, vice president product marketing, McAfee Inc. “This alliance ensures our customers have threat mitigation options that target the endpoints with the highest risks, while simultaneously remaining highly effective at reducing overall risk to their enterprise IP networks.”
With the increase in the varieties of network connection methods and the mobility of employees, the importance of having an “in depth” network defense has increased. According to Gartner, best-of-breed organizations only manage and control approximately 80 percent of the endpoints on their networks. The combined solution discovers the network, assesses policy compliance and threat posture across endpoints, enforces targeted vulnerability scanning for high risk or rogue endpoints, and quarantines non-compliant systems – enforced both pre- and post-admission to the network.
“This alliance will ensure that customers can buy our integrated solution with confidence,” said Michael D’Eath, vice president of corporate and business development, Mirage Networks. “IT security will be able to control network access for all endpoints – including those devices that have historically created the highest risk, but have been largely un-manageable.”
Through the alliance, the companies have already developed and released an integrated solution, based on McAfee Foundstone Enterprise and Mirage NAC™ v2.3 appliances, that delivers vulnerability scanning and deeper policy checking at network entry and on-demand post-entry. Its unique behavioral technology continually monitors all devices on the network, and quarantine and remediation features enable the targeted scanning and cleaning of offending endpoints before they impact the network.
With this announcement, the companies are collaborating on selling and supporting the integrated solution through existing authorized Mirage and McAfee Foundstone channels.
In addition to employee cross-training, the companies are working with their respective channel partners to ensure customers can acquire the offering.
Specific benefits to customers include:
- Endpoint agnostic – The solution manages with any IP-capable endpoint type, running any operating system, whether managed and unmanaged
- Easy to deploy – Requires no change to or dependence on existing switch infrastructure
- Full protection – Provides day-zero threat protection across the network
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the leading dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers innovative and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world. With McAfee's unmatched security expertise, home, business, government, and service provider customers block attacks, prevent disruptions, and continuously track and improve their security. www.mcafee.com.
Mirage Networks is an Austin, Texas-based network security company dedicated to delivering real world, complete network access control solutions, serving the enterprise through a strong channel of resellers, original equipment manufacturers and managed security service providers. Mirage solutions ensure a user-friendly and IT-friendly experience that never forces a compromise between business objectives, effectiveness and usability. The company’s passion for innovation has paved the way for the development of patent-pending behavioral technology that consistently wins industry awards. Learn more about the industry’s only self-contained network access control solution at www.miragenetworks.com.
Tracy Ross
McAfee, Inc.
408.346.5965
tracy_ross@mcafee.com
Gabrielle Smith
Mirage Networks
512.874.7813
gsmith@miragenetworks.com
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