Significant Enhancements to SASE Solution and Global Managed
Offerings Help Organizations
Accelerate Digital Transformation
Highlights:
·
Certifies interoperability of its
SASE solution with six leading SD-WAN vendors and forges deeper alliances with
Silver Peak Systems and Versa Networks
·
Atos and BT to deliver McAfee
powered managed services
McAfee,
the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today announced significant enhancements
to its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution delivered by MVISION Unified
Cloud Edge (UCE) by launching easy-to-use integrations with third-party
Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) solutions, and extending its UCE
platform to enable global strategic partners to deliver managed SASE
offerings. In addition, McAfee continues to progress engagement with
leading global service providers Atos and BT to offer a range of managed Web,
CASB, and SASE offerings to help organizations who are struggling with the
challenges of digital transformation.
According
to a recent McAfee Cloud Adoption and Risk
Report, the work from anywhere trend has led to a 50% increase in
enterprise cloud use across all industries. This trend is merely the latest
driver pushing many organizations to dramatically accelerate their cloud
transformation plans and re-architect their networks to facilitate a
“direct-to-cloud” model for remote users and branch offices. By seamlessly
integrating MVISION UCE with the direct-to-cloud network functionality of
industry leading SD-WAN solutions, organizations benefit from a unified cloud-native
offering that facilitates fast, secure, simple, and scalable access to web and
cloud resources, in line with the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework.
“McAfee
is committed to helping our customers securely move their operations to the
cloud and help their employees to work from wherever they are in these times.
With these new enhancements to MVISION UCE, McAfee has delivered a SASE
solution that will help customers optimize and secure their work-from-home
infrastructure,” said Ash Kulkarni, executive vice president and chief
product officer of the enterprise business group at McAfee.
SD-WAN
Partnerships
MVISON
UCE delivers robust native support for virtually any SD-WAN solution via
site-to-site and site-to-cloud deployments, leveraging industry standard
Dynamic IPSec and GRE protocols. To date, McAfee has certified interoperability
with six of the industry's leading SD-WAN vendors, including Viptela (Cisco),
VeloCloud (VMware), and Citrix, with even deeper partnerships forged with
Silver Peak, Fortinet, and Versa Networks through McAfee’s Security
Innovation Alliance (SIA) program, one of the industry’s largest technology
partnership programs.
Managed
Service Provider Offerings
Adoption
of the SASE framework involves the consolidation of many traditionally siloed
network and security technologies, requiring major architectural considerations
and collaboration across many parts of the IT organization. Recognizing the
importance of the partner relationship, McAfee has extended its UCE platform to
enable partners. Notably, Atos and BT have agreed to use their global scale to
deliver managed Web, CASB and SASE offerings to organizations that want to
adopt the Cloud without the challenges associated with having to plan and
manage everything on their own.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 24, 2020
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