Extreme Networks and McAfee form alliance to promote secure networking
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 18:24 IST
Printer Print Email Email
Extreme Networks and McAfee form alliance to promote secure networking
Bangalore: Extreme Networks, announced that that it has formed a strategic alliance with security provider McAfee, to address secure networking for enterprise organizations. Working together, Extreme Networks and McAfee can provide world-class, secure, unified networks to mutual customers delivered through the companies' comprehensive portfolios of high performance Ethernet networking and security (threat management) solutions. The security portfolio from McAfee addresses host security, network intrusion detection and prevention, firewall and data leakage security requirements to protect the Enterprise LAN. "McAfee's experience, insight and proven ability to deliver scalable and pervasive security and threat solutions to IT organizations ensures that our mutual customers will be able to address their enterprise business productivity and stability challenges as part of our relationship," said Paul Hooper, Vice President and General Manager for the Volume Products Group at Extreme Networks. "We are delighted to have McAfee join our extensibility ecosystem." The alliance will include joint marketing of secure network solutions and interoperability testing to support secure network solutions. Joint customers will benefit from McAfee's cloud-based Global Threat Intelligence supported by McAfee's leading security research experts. Customers also benefit from being able to manage their security applications through McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software, a centralized management console to help secure organizations from a vast and ever-growing threat landscape. "McAfee is joining forces with Extreme Networks to extend reliable and secure networking to our mutual global customers, allowing them the best possible choices in securing their applications and communications with simplified, high performance solutions," said Dan Ryan, Executive Vice President, Network Security Business Unit, McAfee. "Customers can be more confident in their IT and business endeavors through intelligent integration of their network and security infrastructures."

Digital Supply Chain Transformation – Winning the AI/ML Way