McAfee, Inc. Partners With Network Frontiers to Streamline Compliance for Customers
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 20 (MARKET WIRE) --
RSA CONFERENCE -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) and Network Frontiers, the
leader in IT regulatory compliance management, announced today that
McAfee has licensed Network Frontiers' Unified Compliance Framework (UCF)
to further help McAfee's clients navigate the increasingly complex
compliance maze.
The partnership between McAfee and Network Frontiers will enable large
enterprises and heavily regulated industries such as utilities,
healthcare, education, government, and finance to easily identify common
control requirements across multiple regulations. Many organizations are
unaware that there is currently a 70 percent or more commonality in
regulation requirements. By identifying these commonalities,
organizations can consolidate the time and IT investment required for
compliance and audit activities -- potentially realizing significant cost
savings. This also enables businesses to leverage existing McAfee
security technology investment and reduce policy processes into a unified
plan to achieve and maintain continuous compliance across the enterprise.
"For the first time customers will be able to leverage their existing
security technologies for compliance," said George Kurtz, senior vice
president and general manager of McAfee's Risk and Compliance Business
Unit. "McAfee is working with Network Frontiers to build this unique
mapping tool in order deliver a truly comprehensive worldwide compliance
matrix that will span McAfee's enterprise product portfolio."
Network Frontiers' United Compliance Framework (UCF) harmonizes IT
controls from over 400 international regulatory requirements, standards
and guidelines into a single set of straightforward requirements that
clearly show the many points where global, state and industry regulations
overlap. McAfee will utilize the UCF data framework to deliver a
comprehensive worldwide compliance matrix of over 3,000 regulations
applied across a complete range of security technologies and into a
matrix tool specifically mapped to McAfee customers' needs.
"By taking a full view of compliance and a broad look at security McAfee
is clearly taking a proactive leadership position in the security
technology space. And they're making it easy for customers looking for
both security and compliance solutions to satisfy both requirements,"
says Craig Isaacs, CEO of Network Frontiers.
Some of the most familiar regulations and guidelines harmonized by the UCF
include: Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), International Variants, Basel II,
Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI
DSS), EU Data Privacy Act, NASD Manual, HIPAA, TIPEDA, FERC Security
Program, Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), FIPS 191, GAO
Financial Audit Manual, IRS Revenue Procedure and Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure.
About the UCF
By focusing on commonalities across regulations, standards-based
development, and simplified architectures, the UCF supports a strategic
approach to IT compliance that reduces cost, limits liability, and
leverages the value of compliance-related technologies and services across
the enterprise. The UCF's content and methodology is the direct result of
Network Frontiers deep understanding of IT regulations and standards and
decades of experience consulting for clients, publications, and vendors in
the mission-critical IT arena.
The UCF was created by Dorian Cougias and his research partner, Marcelo
Halpern of the international law firm Latham and Watkins, which oversees
all legal aspects of the UCF. More information can be found at
www.unifiedcompliance.com.
About Network Frontiers
Since 1992 Network Frontiers has developed ground-breaking tools to
support IT best practices with a special focus on regulatory compliance,
metrics, systems continuity and governance. Dorian Cougias, founder and
Lead Analyst, is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and has
authored numerous articles and books, including "The Compliance Book" and
the award-winning "Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data
Center." Network Frontiers was recently cited by information technology
research and advisory company Gartner as one of their five leading Cool
Vendors in Risk Management and Compliance for 2009.
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's
largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is relentlessly
committed to tackling the world's toughest security challenges. The
company delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help
secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to safely
connect to the Internet, browse and shop the web more securely. Backed by
an award-winning research team, McAfee creates innovative products that
empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by
enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent
disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and
improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com
NOTE: McAfee and any additional McAfee marks herein are registered
trademarks of McAfee, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other
countries. McAfee Red in connection with security is distinctive of McAfee
brand products. All other registered and unregistered trademarks herein
are the sole property of their respective owners. Copyright 2009 McAfee,
Inc. All rights reserved.
Contacts:
Erica Coleman
McAfee, Inc.
408-346-5624
Email Contact
Steven Blinn
BlinnPR
646-734-4225
Email Contact
Craig Isaacs
Unified Compliance Framework
510-962-5191
Email Contact
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