Extreme Networks, McAfee join hands

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Extreme Networks announced that that it has formed a strategic alliance with McAfee to address the need of secure networking for enterprise organizations.

Working together, Extreme Networks and McAfee can provide secure, unified networks to mutual customers delivered through the companies’ portfolios of Ethernet networking and security (threat management) solutions. The security portfolio from McAfee addresses host security, network intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, and data leakage security requirements to protect the Enterprise LAN.

“McAfee’s experience, insight and proven ability to deliver scalable and pervasive security and threat solutions to IT organizations ensures that our mutual customers will be able to address their enterprise business productivity and stability challenges as part of our relationship,” Paul Hooper, VP and GM—Volume Products Group, Extreme Networks. “We are delighted to have McAfee join our extensibility ecosystem,” he added.

The Extreme Networks/McAfee strategic alliance will include joint marketing of secure network solutions, and interoperability testing to support secure network solutions. Joint customers will benefit from McAfee’s cloud-based Global Threat Intelligence supported by McAfee’s security research experts. Customers also benefit from being able to manage their security applications through McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software.

“McAfee is joining forces with Extreme Networks to extend reliable and secure networking to our mutual global customers, allowing them the best possible choices in securing their applications and communications with simplified, high performance solutions,” said Dan Ryan, Executive VP—Network Security Business Unit, McAfee. “Customers can be more confident in their IT and business endeavors through intelligent integration of their network and security infrastructures,” he concluded.