McAfee acquires Preventsys

BANGALORE: Security company McAfee

today announced that it has acquired Preventsys Inc., a security risk management

and automated security compliance reporting firm.

The addition of Preventsys's security risk management and compliance solution

to McAfee's proactive enterprise security technology will further advance McAfee

in its ability to help companies reduce the complexity of managing their

security.

Preventsys has pioneered an advanced Security Risk Management System for

large companies that need to proactively protect confidential customer and

company information, ensure high availability of critical IT assets, and easily

communicate security compliance to executive management.

Preventsys currently provides the only solution that consolidates

vulnerability, configuration and threat data from multi-vendor tools into an

enterprise dashboard and automates the security compliance reporting process.

"McAfee's acquisition of Preventsys fulfills a key component of our risk

management and compliance strategy, which is based on helping our customers

leverage their existing security technologies," said Ken Gonzalez, vice

president of corporate development, McAfee. "With Preventsys technology, we

can help our customers satisfy regulatory requirements for automated compliance

reporting, while leveraging existing McAfee technologies such as McAfee ePolicy

Orchestrator and Foundstone."

According to industry analyst firm IDC,

"Budgetary and staffing constraints will continue to drive organizations to

look for better ways to cost-effectively manage their security infrastructure.

Security and vulnerability management software solutions can simplify the

complexity associated with managing multiple security solutions while at the

same time increasing the effectiveness of protection."

"We see an opportunity to bring automated security compliance reporting

to McAfee's enterprise customers," said Patrick Harr, chief executive

officer for Preventsys. "It is the only solution that can consolidate

multi-vendor assessment information and be easily integrated into a user's new

or existing security tools without ever having to change the security process or

reports. This will decrease the time and costs associated with manual auditing

and compliance reporting."

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