1. Network security Product Group 2 McAfee Network Security Platform

2. About McAfee McAfee was founded in 1987 and it is based in Santa Clara, California. McAfee is now part of Intel Security. Bringing together the security expertise and experience of McAfee with the performance, innovation, and trust of Intel, Intel Security believes that in a world of pervasive technology, we must have equally pervasive security. Security that is ever-present, always on, and everywhere—on every device, in every chip, at every gateway, in every cloud, and proactively present in every transaction and connection.

3. McAfee Corporate Factsheet Commercial Mid-sized businesses with more than 250 users generally have full-time IT staff but don’t have much time or budget to spend on security. McAfee offers growing businesses smart, simple, and secure solutions that provide better protection and are easy to manage. Enterprise Large businesses can optimize their security investments and proactively protect their most important assets with our strategic, pragmatic Security Connected framework. The McAfee approach to providing connected security has become the de facto standard for enterprise security, with solutions to protect the entire infrastructure—from endpoints to the network, as well as mobile devices and embedded devices.

4. McAfee Network Security Platform Product McAfee datasheet state: McAfee® Network Security Platform is a uniquely intelligent security solution that discovers and blocks sophisticated threats in the network. Using advanced threat detection techniques, it moves beyond mere pattern matching to defend against stealthy attacks with extreme accuracy, while its next generation hardware platform scales to speeds of more than 40 Gbps with a single device to meet the needs of demanding networks. The Security Connected approach to security management streamlines security operations by combining real-time McAfee Global Threat Intelligence™ (McAfee GTI™) feeds with rich contextual data about users, devices, and applications for fast, accurate response to network-borne attacks.

5. Why is it important It protects the network from malware. The McAfee Network Security Platform has a number of analysis techniques to detect undesirable access and intrusion while simultaneously preventing malware-caused mayhem across the network. McAfee Network Security Platform has advanced techniques to preform deep inspection on network traffic while keeping the line-rate speeds McAfee Network Security Platform gets perfect view of threat of detecting which device has great risk for the company.

6. Unparalleled threat prevention McAfee Network Security Platform is well based on the next generation inspection architecture designed to perform deep inspection of network traffic while maintaining the line rate speeds. Moreover, is uses a combination of advanced inspection techniques like the full protocol analysis and advanced malware analysis in order to detect and prevent both known and unknown attacks on the network.

7. Security connected McAfee has been identified to offer real time integration with McAfee e policy Enterprise security manager of real time correlation of network vents across all the relevant sources. The security is probably is through the McAfee network security manager, McAfee Enterprise platform whereby it gets an accurate view of the threats since it relates to the devices and users. The solution incorporates devices details, the user information, the endpoint security postures and the vulnerability assessments in order to help organizations understands threat severity and also the business risk factors.

8. Performance and scalability The McAfee provides the security as well as a higher performance. It combines a single pass, protocol based inspection architecture with purpose built and the carrier class hardware which enables the achieve of the real world inspection of more than the 20Gbps within a single device.

9. Visibility and Control McAfee network Security Platform is identified to provide applications and protocols on the network. McAfee has first and also only IPS solution which combines the advanced threat prevention and also application awareness into a single security decision engine. This aspect explores that McAfee Network security platform provides user and the device visibility. It therefore prioritizes the risky host and also users including active botnets through identification of the anomalous network behavior.

10. The Intelligent security management Most of the security investment is through intelligent network security management. The McAfee network Security management offers the scalable web based management from the two seventy hundred network security appliances. McAfee offers the intuitive progressive disclosures workflow which guides administrators to relevant alerts together with easy to use security dashboards which automatically prioritizes events based on severity and relevancy.

11. Network security platform for NSX McAfee network Security platform virtual sensor integrates with the VMWare NSX services composer automated deployment of unparallel security visibility, protection from the network based threats and exploits and also reporting. Certainly, the network security platform with the NSX is performance optimized for the virtualization, delivering the granular protection of individual VN workloads with customizable policy definitions. Therefore, the network security platform is capable of servicing the performance of enterprise cloud and data requirements like elastic scale and manageability.

12. Works Cited 1) "Corporate Factsheet." About McAfee (n.d.): n. pag. McAfee, 2014. Web. 17 Oct. 2014.. 2) "McAfee Network Security Platform." McAfee-Antivirus, Encryption, Firewall, Email Security, Web Security, Risk & Compliance. McAfee, 2014. Web. 17 Oct. 2014..