Extreme Networks ties up with McAfee

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Extreme Networks, Inc., a provider in Ethernet networks, announced that that it had formed an alliance with security leader McAfee, Inc.

Extreme Networks and McAfee could provide secure, unified networks to mutual customers delivered through the companies’ comprehensive portfolios of high performance 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.

Paul Hooper, vice president and general manager for the Volume Products Group at Extreme Networks, said: “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.”

The Extreme Networks/McAfee strategic alliance would include joint marketing of secure network solutions, and interoperability testing to support secure network solutions. Joint customers would benefit from McAfee’s cloud-based Global Threat Intelligence supported by McAfee’s leading security research experts.

Customers also benefit from being able to manage their security applications through McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software, a centralized management console to help secure organizations from a vast and

ever-growing threat landscape.