The certified integration through the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance provides major new revenue opportunities and thought leadership advantages to joint McAfee and Digital Defense channel partners.
MVISION Endpoint layers McAfee endpoint protection over Windows Defender, using the latter to manage endpoint defense through ePO, while MVISION Mobile consolidates mobile device security into one console.
The McAfee integration with IBM Resilient IRP is available now, and will soon be complemented by full certification of interoperability, which will provider customers and partners with even more value.
On the sunnier side, cross-vendor collaborative efforts on IoT security are making progress, and Intel Security’s own IoT research will continue notwithstanding the separation of McAfee from Intel in 2017.
Intel Security showcased its year-old alliance of vendors involved in integrations around DXL. Optimism was strong that the newly announced Open DXL would amplify its value to these partners.
McAfee has retooled its SMB offerings, with three new suites which feature McAfee’s next-generation anti-malware technology, which is being deployed for the first time in these solutions.
McAfee, better known for its enterprise products, is going after the broad SMB market with security services, rewarding partners for referral.
Three years after buying the security vendor, Intel decides it’s time to drop the McAfee name.
McAfee says the job of collecting security event data isn’t complete until an action is taken to stop an attack and prevent recurrences.
Upsale and cross-sale tactics mean partners “have an opportunity to be less promiscuous,” Mcafee channel chief Gavin Struthers tells partners.
McAfee launches new intrusion prevention system with a little help from parent Intel
Intel and McAfee ready first products in combined DeepSafe product line
As the security vendor eyes virtualization and mobility as key market opportunities, it will look to take a careful approach to building supporting channel programs.
