United States: McAfee, Verizon Business Partnership Extends Managed Services Reach.McAfee is extending its global reach in a new partnership with Verizon Business, aimed at infusing security into an array of managed security offerings, and tapping Verizon's data center outsourcing capabilities. The alliance, launched Thursday, is intended to provide McAfee's line of enterprise security products and technology to Verizon's customers, distributed via its data center outsourcing, consulting and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality capabilities. The partnership will also pave the way for suites of new cloud-based managed services scheduled to launch in 2010, executives said. "Obviously, Verizon has a unique role -- a big service provider who has a great relationship with our customers and obviously has access to those enterprise accounts," said Alex Thurber, senior vice president of worldwide channel operations for McAfee. "We think this is a great opportunity." The partnership is aimed at integrating security into myriad managed services, which will open up security to smaller and smaller businesses and ultimately drive more business down market, in addition to branch offices of enterprise and midmarket organizations, executives said. "We're defiantly opening up to go into those small and medium businesses," said Cindy Bellefeuille, Verizon director of global security product management. "They can take advantage of the cloud-based serviced services as well. It's also a great option for larger customers that have these extended enterprises." One of the most significant offerings stemming from the partnership is a new service, set to launch some time this fall, aimed at helping Tier 4 businesses -- the smallest of all merchants -- meet PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). . Bellefeuille maintained that with limited IT staff and budgets, Tier 4 merchants, which comprise 99 percent of all merchants and one-third of all credit card transactions, are the most susceptible group of retailers for a data breach. "A third of all transactions represent a serious risk," she said. " Tier 4 merchants have very low compliance." Other services coming down the pike in 2010 include content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. , e-mail filtering Email filtering is the processing of e-mail to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to artificial intelligence, and to , intrusion prevention services and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. services, which would all be managed by Verizon Business and operated in the cloud Refers to the operation taking place within a network. See cloud. . In addition, McAfee will also be able to access data center outsourcing services from Verizon Business, which will also help McAfee manage its 24x7 Web hosting operations and further equip the company to provide more cloud-based services down the road. McAfee executives maintain that embarking on a partnership with Verizon Business made sense in light of the fact that more enterprises and government organizations are moving basic operations toward the cloud. "Customers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. security to be architected and integrated into the stack. It was a great fit," said David Scholtz, senior vice president of worldwide strategic alliances at McAfee. "They also were seeking to explore the strategy of embedding s Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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