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McAfee outlines SaaS strategy

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BANGALORE, INDIA: McAfee outlined details of its Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategy, designed to provide consumers, small to mid-sized businesses and large enterprises with a comprehensive set of security products delivered as a service in the cloud.

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The McAfee portfolio offers customers with a single vendor solution and more cost efficient deployment options in tough economic times, which the company states will help its customers realise cost savings of 50 percent on average.

"Our customers have told us they want flexibility in their delivery options," said Marc Olesen, SVP and General Manager, SaaS, McAfee.

"It is clear that IT resources need to focus on initiatives that are business critical, while consolidating vendors. Bottom line, McAfee is committed to making it easy for customers to maximize the value of our solutions and help them save money through SaaS."

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By integrating with McAfee' s real-time, cloud-based global threat intelligence, these SaaS products provide increased visibility into both external and internal threats and vulnerabilities, protecting customers and reducing both acquisition and operational costs. It leverages McAfee's install base and threat intelligence capabilities, providing customers with a comprehensive view of the evolving threat landscape.

"We have been using McAfee's SaaS offering for the last two years and have realized substantial value from our deployment. Additionally, McAfee SaaS has significantly changed the way we do things, allowing us to easily scale to protect our retail locations," said Greg Ellison, IT Manager for Gilligan Oil. "Perhaps best of all, McAfee's SaaS solutions are extremely easy to use and never interfere with our accounting software and daily operations," he added.

McAfee's SaaS portfolio delivers endpoint protection, web protection, e-mail protection and vulnerability assessments as a service, linked to global threat intelligence from Artemis, TrustedSource and SiteAdvisor.

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