Taking a strategic approach to enterprise security
According to McAfee Avert Labs, attacks on digital information will increase over 500 percent this year. In an increasingly complex threat environment, IT organizations work hard to protect digital information, keep systems available, and address mounting regulatory and audit requirements, while helping the business achieve overall operational efficiencies. But if these IT organizations are deploying security solutions that cannot share information, coordinate threat intelligence feeds, or correlate events from multiple providers, they will continue to face significant cost and complexity while experiencing suboptimal protection. To address these challenges, organizations are increasingly taking a strategic approach to achieve an improved security posture while at the same time lowering costs.

Enterprises seeking to strengthen protection and achieve cost efficiencies without locking down the business should consider four key requirements:

• Integrated defense across systems, networks, and data to detect, correlate, and protect against threats enterprise-wide
• Automated compliance management to empower the enterprise to achieve and sustain compliance
• Real-time threat intelligence proactively detects threats, delivers reputational analysis, provides visibility across the entire internet, and dramatically reduces vulnerability windows
• An extensible security management platform with hooks into IT infrastructure to speed incident response and complete visibility into the end-to-end security landscape

Greater protection, compliance, and management efficiency
As the first open security management platform to centrally manage McAfee network, system, data, and compliance solutions, McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) 4.5 helps satisfy these four requirements. Centralized management reduces complexity and helps identify issues quickly by correlating and streaming threat and vulnerability information into a single web interface. Automations accelerate response times, updating protection for tens of thousands of systems in an hour or less and providing closed loop incident response with systems-management solutions such as HP OpenView. Powerful reporting capabilities provide visibility and confidence in security and compliance postures.

McAfee ePO customers benefit from significantly fewer deployed servers and reduced time to administer security—achieving dramatic cost and operational efficiencies. Version 4.5, ePO includes a distributed architecture with load balancing and failover enhancements, as well as new features such as an extensible automated response system, enhancements to workflow capabilities, a personalized web interface, streamlined navigation, and more granular reporting capabilities. With this latest release, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 extends its leadership as an open platform to manage end-to-end security while strengthening protection, achieving cost efficiencies, and making security management a more agile, transparent part of IT operations.