McAfee

McAfee, which is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, delivers best-of-breed computer-security solutions for large enterprises, governments, small and medium-sized businesses and consumers. McAfee solutions help prevent intrusion on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats on multiple levels of the network infrastructure.

Why McAfee? McAfee offers in-depth protection, from the network core through perimeter defence to complete desktop security, through two families of products:

• McAfee System Protection Solutions
• McAfee Network Protection Solutions

McAfee System Protection Solutions secure all layers of desktop and server systems and applications, protecting against known and unknown attacks and vulnerabilities. These products are all centred on the company’s industry-leading McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, which delivers policy management and reporting of both McAfee and third-party security products. McAfee Network Protection Solution keeps both large and smaller distributed networks up and protected from attacks.

McAfee Benefits

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, premium anti-virus, security and anti-spam services
• McAfee Expert Services, providing assessment, design, deployment and downtime emergency response in the security and network traffic analysis arenas.

In addition, McAfee Research is the leading private contractor for advanced security research for the US military, and has more than one hundred dedicated researchers. McAfee Research has unique relationships with government customers, which allows it to engage in a high degree of technology transfer, and it frequently contributes breakthrough innovations to McAfee corporate and consumer products. McAfee Research has also conducted advanced research and testing for private companies including Microsoft and Boeing.

Why Comztek?

Comztek is a value-added distributor for McAfee. Comztek, due to its technical competency and dedicated product management team, is in a position to support resellers with all McAfee projects.

Comztek also offers excellent hardware stock exchange facilities to ensure endusers issues are attended to with minimum delay. McAfee South Africa offers comprehensive technical training services to partners.

These events are aimed at equipping McAfee partners with the necessary technical skill and qualifications to plan, execute and support enterprise class endusers in all security fields. Pre-sales technical skills are available from McAfee SA and Comztek. These services will assist resellers in implementing the correct solutions at the right time. As a standard, McAfee SA offers a 24/7 telephonic support service to enterprises and home users.This service is free to all clients who have a current maintenance agreement in place.

System Protection Solutions

McAfee Anti-Virus for desktop
vulnerability assessment.

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) monitors and blocks intrusions by combining signature and behavioural protection with a system firewall, all within a single agent.

McAfee SpamKiller to block unsolicited e-mail.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator keeps anti-virus software up-to-date, performs comprehensive anti-virus configuration, and scales to keep pace with changing business needs.

Network Protection Solutions McAfee Security Forensics provides data capture, terabyte storage capacity and information retrieval to analyse important security events and network threats.

McAfee Integrated and Intelligent Network Access Control Policy Enforcer (Network Access Control) delivers an intelligent, enterprise ready approach to mitigate the risk to corporate assets caused by non-compliant endpoint systems. This solution enforces policy compliance across the enterprise, regardless of network environment or platform infrastructure. Policy Enforcer is an integral component of McAfee total protection for enterprise advanced.