Enterprise cast added to McAfee's security folio

MUMBAI, INDIA: McAfee announced the addition of identity and access management solutions to its Security Connected portfolio. The solutions that were previously sold and developed by Intel include McAfee Cloud Single Sign On and McAfee One Time Password. McAfee also introduced a new McAfee Identity Center of Expertise, staffed with experts in identity and cloud security to assist users with questions pertaining to identity and access management issues, such as architecture requirements and best practices.

Organizations of all sizes are moving IT operations and functions to the cloud in order to reduce costs. As businesses embrace cloud-based applications they quickly find their IT department and application administrators are overwhelmed with the problem of managing cloud-based application accounts. Many organizations are trying to use legacy identity and authentication solutions which can create security gaps and are often complicated to deploy and customize for new applications, as it highlights in the announcement.

"There is a huge shift underway to extend enterprise-class security to cloud-based applications and services while also consolidating security onto just a few key platforms," said Pat Calhoun, senior vice president and general manager of Network Security at McAfee. "McAfee is not trying to ‘boil the ocean,' instead we are focusing on several identity-related ‘hot spots' and investing to help our customers and partners solve critical challenges and maintain business continuity and agility."

"McAfee has been excellent to work with," said Kamal Elharam, director of Information Systems and Technology at Senior Service America Incorporated. "The McAfee Cloud Single Sign On product met all of our needs and it helped us, as well as our system integrator, to implement the best solution to support our business goals."