McAfee expands SIA program

BENGALURU, INDIA: McAfee announced an expansion to the McAfeece Security Innovation Alliance(SIA) program. Since January 2009, McAfee has added 14 new 'McAfee Compatible' solutions from its current SIA partners, including ActivIdentity, AET Europe, Aladdin, Arxan, Catbird, Charismathics, Gemalto, HP, Kobil, Luxtrust, Oberthur Technologies, SCM Microsystems, Secerno and Vasco.

There are eight new members that have joined the program as Associate Partners, including Authenex, Cryptotech, eIQnetworks, S21sec, Solidcore, Triumfant and Telos. Across North America and Europe, McAfee now has more than 55 SIA partners committed to helping customers drive operational savings with McAfee-compatible products.

McAfee is also expanding the categories of partners supported by SIA to now include system integrators(SIs). Partners in this new category will help enterprise customers integrate 'homegrown' applications with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software solution, combine multiple vendor products to deliver end-to-end solutions, as well as accelerate McAfee compatibility for SIA partners, reducing time-to-market for solutions requiring an integration. Ciphent is the charter member in this new category.

“McAfee is proud of the explosive growth the Security Innovation Alliance is enjoying,” said Joe Gottlieb, VP—Corporate Strategy and Technology Alliances, McAfee. “While simultaneously growing partner participation in existing categories, and unlocking new categories of partners, we continue to deliver on the “Security Ecosystem” vision that we’ve had since the inception of SIA. It is very satisfying to hear our partners tell us that SIA is fast becoming the premier technology partnering program in the security industry,” he added.