Extreme Networks, McAfee Ally For Secure Networking

Extreme Networks has formed a strategic alliance with security player McAfee, addressing secure networking for enterprise organisations.

Working together, Extreme Networks and McAfee can provide secure, unified networks to mutual customers delivered through the companies’ portfolios of 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.

"McAfee’s experience, insight and ability to deliver scalable and pervasive security and threat solutions to IT organisations ensures that our mutual customers will be able to address their enterprise business productivity and stability challenges as part of our relationship," Paul Hooper, vice president and general manager for the Volume Products Group at Extreme Networks said. "We are delighted to have McAfee join our extensibility ecosystem."

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The Extreme Networks/ McAfee strategic alliance will include joint marketing of secure network solutions, and interoperability testing to support secure network solutions. Joint customers will 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 centralised management console to help secure organisations from an ever-growing threat landscape.