CIOL: What are McAfee's s security solutions for SMBs?
TG: McAfee has introduced Total Protection for Secure Business specifically for the SMB customer who wants to manage his own environment. This suite is the broadest suite available in the market providing endpoint, email, web, and data protection. Total Protection Service is McAfee's SaaS platform providing endpoint, web and email protection designed for the SMB customer that would prefer not to deploy servers and software on their own site. McAfee Total Protection of Endpoint – Essential is a right-sized solution for the SMB segment that utilizes minimum system resources.

CIOL: Any new products/solutions in the pipeline during 2009 for the SMB sector from McAfee?
TG: We have just announced the release of McAfee Unified Threat Management Firewalls. The McAfee UTM Firewalls are multi-functional network security appliances that are attractive to SMBs with their competitive pricing, reliability and ease of use. Going forward, McAfee will continue to push the envelope of innovation and maintain our lead in protecting what's most valuable to our customer: their data.

CIOL:  What is the key differentiator when it comes to the solutions for SMBs?
TG: We see most vendors continuing to deliver "point solutions" that address specific security exposures. We also see smaller vendors being acquired by the larger vendors, and in many cases, their customers are forced to make technology changes as a result. Lastly, we see vendors taking products that were built for the enterprise or consumer space, and then try to push those into the SMB arena.

Our approach is different; our internal mantra is to deliver solutions that are 'smart, simple and secure' – 'smart' with intelligence built into the products; 'simple' - easy to install, easy to manage a broad set of functions from a single console, and developed with the SMB customer in mind; and, of course, 'secure' - our customers need to be able to go home each night confident they are safe and secure.