http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111809-pentagon-mcafee.html By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World 11/18/2009 The U.S. Defense Department is expanding its exclusive arrangement with McAfee, whose security software is at the heart of the military's cybersecurity efforts. McAfee was selected three years ago for the Department of Defense's Host Based Security System (HBSS), which provides standard intrusion prevention and firewall capabilities for all military services. Through the HBSS program, the Department of Defense is deploying McAfee's Host Intrusion Prevention and ePolicy Orchestrator software packages to centrally manage the security of more than 5 million servers, desktops and laptops. "From a credibility perspective, this is a great deal for McAfee," says Usman Sindhu, a security and risk management analyst with Forrester Research. "For non-government entities, this brings out some of the capabilities of their solutions and shows that their products have been put to a rigorous test." Indeed, the U.S. military is now the world's largest customer of McAfee's software. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Thu Nov 19 2009 - 00:18:42 PST
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