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Tyco Goes With McAfee For Workstation And Server Protection
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2005-06-20
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McAfee announced that Tyco International has selected McAfee Active Virus Defense as its company-wide anti-virus standard for workstations and servers.
The company had been using a multi-vendor anti-virus approach -- including McAfee Active Virus Defense -- but decided, as part of its information security strategy, to move to a single workstation and server vendor company-wide. The company plans to fully implement the solution globally during the summer of 2005.
"Tyco has more than 100,000 workstations and servers in over 60 countries, encompassing multiple business units around the globe," said Dana Deasy, corporate CIO and senior vice president of Tyco International. "We selected McAfee Active Virus Defense -- after a competitive evaluation process -- based on features, price and service. This is further evidence of Tyco's drive to implement solutions to support operational excellence and efficiency throughout the company."
Shelley Stewart, vice president of Supply Chain for Tyco added, "We are pleased to announce this significant strategic relationship with McAfee, which is a result of our "One Tyco" Strategic Sourcing Initiative.
McAfee Active Virus Defense is an integrated suite of security solutions that provides multi-layered protection at the desktop, Internet gateway, email server and file server levels of the network. As part of the suite, Tyco has selected next-generation malware prevention with McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i, plus centralized policy management and reporting through McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO).
"Tyco replaced its previous system because the company realized the potential for efficiency and economies of scale that weren't possible in a multi-vendor environment," said Vincent Rossi, senior vice president of product marketing and product management.
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i is the first anti-virus software product to integrate elements of intrusion prevention and firewall technology into a single security agent -- providing Tyco with advanced, yet easy to implement protection that blocks and removes attacks without signature updates. The solution is centrally managed under a single console with the highly scalable McAfee ePO 3.5 for the enterprise.
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