12 August 2008
McAfee Active Virus Defense Wins SC Magazine Global Award 2005
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McAfee Active Virus Defense Wins SC Magazine Global Award 2005 for ‘Best Anti Virus Solution’
McAfee(R) Active Virus Defense Wins ‘Best Anti Virus Solution’ Based on Global Reader’s Votes From the United States, UK and Asia Pacific Editions of SC Magazine
RSA CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) , the pioneer and worldwide leader of intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that McAfee(R) Active Virus Defense has won the SC Magazine Reader Trust Award in the category of “Best Anti Virus Solution” for SC Magazine’s annual Global Awards 2005. Winners of the publication’s annual awards were announced on February 16, 2005 at an awards ceremony held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The Reader Trust Award is comprised of 17 security-focused product categories, and winners were selected based on judges’ deliberations, reader votes and vote validation exercises from the United States, UK/Europe and Asia Pacific editions of SC Magazine. McAfee Active Virus Defense, which offers multi-layered protection against today’s constantly evolving security threats, was awarded the “Best Anti Virus Solution” based on its ability to offer the best protection against viruses, as well as its accompanying product management team and product support.
“McAfee is honored to learn that that SC Magazine readers across the globe have selected McAfee Active Virus Defense as the ‘Best Anti Virus Solution’,” said Vince Rossi, senior vice president of product management and product marketing at McAfee, Inc. “The SC Magazine Global Awards 2005 received over 1000 nominations from 300 individual companies, bringing 56,000 individual visits to the site from its readers. It is gratifying to learn that Active Virus Defense was their anti-virus solution of choice-further validating McAfee’s investment in centralized management and next generation technology that proactively blocks attacks and protects vulnerabilities, often from zero-day.”
McAfee Active Virus Defense is an integrated suite of solutions that helps IT managers protect their systems from today’s newest threats, including buffer-overflow exploits, blended attacks viruses and worms. The solution includes McAfee VirusScan(R) Enterprise 8.0i, McAfee WebShield(R) SMTP, McAfee GroupShield(R) and McAfee NetShield(R), for multi-layered virus protection software at the desktop, Internet gateway, email server, and file server. The solution also includes centralized policy management and reporting through McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator(R) (ePO(TM)) 3.5.
In August 2004, McAfee Active Virus Defense Suite was also awarded the SC Magazine ‘Best Buy’ Award, SC Magazine’s highest honor — taking first place out of twelve vendors in a competitive evaluation of anti-virus management tools. McAfee Active Virus Defense was awarded five stars for features, performance, documentation, support and was said to be one of the most powerful and scalable systems delivering enterprise-class security management.
About SC Magazine Global Awards 2005
With over 900 nominations in the SC Magazine Global Awards 2004 and over 300 individual companies participating, this is the world’s leading awards program for the information security industry. www.scmagazine.com. Recognizing technical excellence and professional achievement across a variety of different categories, the SC Awards is a truly global program with participation from developers and users around the world. For more information contact Chris Thomas, Global Publisher of SC Magazine at cthomas@westcoast.com
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., a worldwide leader in Intrusion Prevention and Risk Management solutions, delivers proven security products and services to help customers effectively balance the competing priorities between business needs and security requirements. McAfee applies profound security expertise toward helping companies, government agencies and consumers block attacks, prevent disruptions, and continuously track and improve the security of their systems and networks. For more information, McAfee, Inc. can be reached at 972-963-8000 or www.mcafee.com.
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