Gartner estimates that 65% of all successful cyberattacks exploit misconfigured systems. With hundreds or even thousands of rules installed on most enterprise firewalls there is a serious risk that vulnerabilities are being masked behind the complexity of the firewall rule base. Obsolete, overlapping, or misconfigured rules are often exploited to give attackers access to sensitive Read more…
The McAfee channel team has recently been approached with some follow up questions surrounding the McAfee Firewall Enterprise V8 announcement; specifically regarding the performance and functionality differences between Firewall Appliance and Firewall Virtual Appliance. Please see below for the captured Q&A.
McAfee is offering a few incentives to encourage partners to look into this opportunity. McAfee Firewall Enterprise for Riverbed will be incorporated into the McAfee SecurityAlliance Deal Registration Program, which offers up to an additional 15% margin advantage to partners when they invest time and resources in McAfee opportunities. This program is for new deal registrations only and goes hand in hand with the deal protection policy, which protects partners by providing only the registering partner with access to special pricing. The 10-15% applies on all McAfee’s network security and firewall platforms.
Tags: channel partner, McAfee Firewall Enterprise, Riverbed, WAN
I have been involved with developing great security products for the bulk of my career. With every new product we always believe it is bound for stardom. Well, it has finally happened. McAfee’s firewall product (McAfee Enterprise Firewall, formerly SideWinder) was recently featured on a prime-time TV show which depicts a military criminal investigative unit Read more…
Firewalls permit or deny applications based upon a set of rules and other criteria. And for the longest time, the ‘set of rules or other criteria’ was simply source and destination IP address and port number. FTP traffic was on port 21, telnet 23, SMTP 25, and on and on—The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Read more…
In a recent Gartner research note, “Defining the Next-Generation Firewall,” they state that “Changing business processes, the technology that enterprises deploy, and threats are driving new requirements for network security”. And they go on to say that “To meet these challenges, firewalls need to evolve into what Gartner has been calling ‘next-generation firewalls.” McAfee agrees, Read more…
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