McAfee

NEW! Version 5.5 Email and Web Security Appliance
The McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance offers better than 99% spam detection accuracy and is equipped with the best anti-malware detection technology in the industry.

New features include:

• New Artemis anti-malware technology for protection against the latest threats, even without available malware signatures
• TrustedSource email reputation services for more efficient and accurate spam blocking
• Appliance Clustering with Load Balancing for improved resiliency, scalability and consolidated management and reporting
• New installation and policy wizards simplified deployment and administration
• Integrated URL filtering and reporting at no additional cost.

McAfee Acquire MX Logic, Inc.
McAfee has announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately owned MX Logic, Inc.

"With this transaction, McAfee is uniquely positioned to offer the most comprehensive cloud-based security portfolio in the industry - one that combines leading global threat intelligence technologies from McAfee with its Security-as-a-Service solutions," said Marc Olesen, senior vice president and general manager, McAfee. "Customers will be able to leverage the cloud to simplify their security architecture and enjoy access to a broader set of delivery options, including appliances, software or in-the-cloud deployments."

MX Logic is a leading global provider of cloud-based e-mail and Web security, email archiving and email continuity services. MX Logic protects approximately 40,000 customers and four million end users that will now be able to rely upon McAfee as a single source for complete security. In addition, more than 1,800 MX Logic channel partners provide a strong Security Software-as-a-Service partner ecosystem to cross sell McAfee technology-based solutions and develop co-branded and bundled offerings.

McAfee Total Protection for Internet Gateways
Comprehensive security for web, email, and data loss prevention
Web 2.0 increases your risk of data loss and downtime. Now McAfee has integrated protections to make it easier for you to provide safe, productive email and Web 2.0 access. By combining email and web security with data loss prevention in one affordable solution, McAfee Total Protection for Internet Gateways helps you protect against malware attacks and keep sensitive information secure.

For further details and pricing contact your Phoenix Account Manager on
0845 265 1265 or email info@phoenixs.co.uk.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5
McAfee is pleased to announce the pre-release versions of this product for download and testing
ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) is McAfee's centralised management console that enables deployment, management, and reporting of many of their security technologies. The customised web-based console enables companies to reduce their overall cost of managing security while gaining significant visibility of their enterprise's security status across their infrastructure.

This version provides improved stability.

McAfee Total Protection for Data
Protect your most sensitive data with end-to-end security
Today, your data is constantly at risk of loss and exposure. The Internet itself, increasing numbers of easily lost or stolen mobile devices, and even insiders pose real threats. McAfee Total Protection for Data offers strong encryption, authentication, data loss prevention, and policy-driven security controls to help you prevent unauthorised access to your sensitive information - anytime, anywhere.

McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention
Don't expect users to become security experts with your sensitive data
Enterprises face dire consequences due to user behaviour at endpoints, which puts confidential data at risk. McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention monitors and prevents risky user behaviour that can lead to a sensitive data breach. This protection works across networks, through applications and via removable storage devices. You're in control whether users are in the office, at home or on the move.

mcafee Total Protection for Secure Business

McAfee Total Protection for Secure Business solves includes all the critical elements of security that most medium-sized organisations need, including McAfee's award-winning security for endpoints, email, web and data. Compared with the alternative of purchasing and maintaining multiple security products from multiple vendors, McAfee Total Protection for Secure Business saves you time, saves you money and gives you a stronger defence against the threats you know about - and the threats you can't see coming. 

McAfee Active virus Defense
McAfee Active Virus Defense is a suite of products that protects your desktops, Internet gateways, e-mail servers, and file servers from all types of viruses.

Used in conjunction with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Active Virus Defense provides you with single-console management and reporting. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise protects your desktops and file servers. McAfee WebShield keeps viruses out of your Internet gateway. McAfee GroupShield covers your mail servers; and McAfee NetShield protects your Netware file servers.

McAfee Active VirusScan
McAfee Active VirusScan protects your desktops and file servers from all types of viruses
The proven anti-virus technology blends heuristics and generic information to identify both known and as yet undiscovered viruses and protects against exploits known to target Microsoft applications and OS services. It even drills down into compressed files to find threats hidden in .zip and similar files.

Updates are critical to effective virus protection. Active VirusScan automatically downloads the latest virus-pattern data for continuous up-to-date protection.

McAfee Endpoint Encryption
(formerly SafeBoot Encryption)

Protect your company's mission-critical information with McAfee Endpoint Encryption. This solution uses powerful encryption and strong access control to prevent unauthorised access to your sensitive data and stop its loss.

Endpoint Encryption offers two forms of encryption to protect data from unauthorised access wherever it is stored or travels:

• Full-disk encryption help ensure that information remains secure when it’s stored on desktops, laptops, tablets and other mobile devices
  
  
• File and folder encryption lets you control which specific file types and folders are encrypted - and ensure they stay encrypted regardless of where they are saved using Persistent Encryption Technology

McAfee Total Protection Service

Broad-coverage security for SMBs isn’t a dream anymore. Stop juggling standalone products. Switch to our automated security-as-a-service - McAfee Total Protection Service (formerly McAfee Total Protection for Small Business) - for continuous, up-to-date protection. Block viruses, spyware, and identity thieves. Search and surf safely with McAfee SiteAdvisor. Manage from our web-based console.

McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint
(formerly McAfee Total Protection for Enterprise)

Protect your endpoints from malicious threats, mitigate risk, and lower costs with our simplified, comprehensive, and powerful end-to-end solution. McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint provides continuous, updated, powerful protection against all threats - from rootkits to hacker attacks. Easily managed with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), for integrated and efficient security.

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance

Defend your organisation against spam, viruses, spyware, malicious Web sites, and inappropriate surfing with an affordable and simple-to-manage solution - McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance. It's a smart alternative to email and Web security point products. Integrated protection secures you more effectively and eliminates the cost and headaches of piecemeal products.

How to license McAfee products

Scheme overview 

The McAfee Protect Plus Licensing Programme is a volume purchase programme that provides customers with volume based pricing, and McAfee Gold Technical Support.

McAfee offer different licensing scheme rules for different product sets. For the vast majority of products, the Protect Plus Licensing Scheme is used and this guide is intended to walk you through the rules for the main scheme. Please however, be aware that exceptions do exist. These are some examples:

• Hardware
• Server Products
• Subscription products - see our section below for more details on these products

If you are ever in doubt as to the specific scheme that a product falls into, please contact your Phoenix Account Manager. McAfee do not sell specific versions of their software. This is because most software is sold as part of a Product 'Suite' licence that contains multiple solutions. There is no need to look for, as an example, Version 5 of this, or Version 9.6 of that, simply choose the product and purchase the licence, e.g. Total Protection for Endpoint - Advanced.

How to Order New Licences (new order)

Order at least 11 nodes of any product to qualify for a new order (note that for managed/hosted/ subscription services the minimum is 2 or 5, and for hardware or server products the minimum is usually 1). If you are ever in doubt as to the minimum order quantity, please contact your Phoenix Account Manager on 0845 265 1265.

The more nodes ordered, the better the price. For the bandings, see the chart below:

Order a Gold Support Renewal for an Existing licence (renewal)

You can purchase as many support renewals as the quantity of licences you already have.  It is possible to consolidate multiple licences bought for the same product over time. If the support expire dates fall within 14 days, then a single renewal can be made for the total licenced quantity you hold. This is referred to as a Support Consolidation.

You can also renew existing support agreements that expire more than 14 days apart by doing a Co-Termination. Please speak to your Phoenix Account Manager for advice on how to proceed in any instances like these.

Order New licences (re-order)

We refer to this process as a re-order. If you already have a grant number for some licences or support renewals in the ProtectPLUS Programme, lets say 100 Active Virus Defence Licences that were purchased at price band C, you have an entitlement to order additional licences at the same price (band C in this example). You can purchase as few as 5 new licences to take advantage of this facility. This applies to any product or renewal in the licensing scheme.

This allows McAfee to provide consistent and competitive band level pricing for Anti-Virus Solutions based on their largest historic purchase.

There are some rules around this:

• You are responsible for referencing the most appropriate grant number/licence. If you fail to reference your largest node grant number, no corrections can be made after the order is processed.
  
  

• Only the end user location specified on the licence grant letter is entitled to use their grant number as a re-order reference.
  
  

• Grant numbers can be utilised for re-orders for two years from the referenced grant start date. Please note that as Licences and Support Renewal grant numbers apply, then the right would never lapse; if you continue to renew support on your licences.

Important Notes on other Licence Types

Upgrades

McAfee recently simplified the rules around their 'Crossgrade' skus. These skus enable you to convert from one McAfee suite of products to another (e.g. from Active Virus Defence to total Protection Suite). You can now convert any Anti-Virus Suite licence to the new product you want, by using an 'upgrade' sku. The upgrade skus all have one year of Gold Support for the new Suite included.

Upgrade Licences are also part of the ProtectPLUS programme. You can use the 're-order' rules to gain the benefit of the best possible pricing entitlement when doing an upgrade.

Competitive Upgrades

These skus enable you to gain a significant discount on new McAfee licences when you are currently using a competitor's comparable Anti-Virus product.

There are some rules around the usage of these skus:

• The Competitive Upgrade Licence sku is used solely to replace McAfee competitors' products. You must be able to prove you hold an active supported licence for a competitor's solution
  
  

• Competitive Upgrade Licence skus are offered as perpetual licences combined with one year of McAfee Gold Technical Support
  
  
• Standard McAfee gold Technical Support applies for support renewals
  
  
•  The initial licence price is dramatically reduced to compensate you for your investment made into competitive licences

2 and 3 year renewals 

McAfee offer a built in discount if you choose to renew your maintenance for a period of more than one year on selected products. These 2 and 3 year Support Renewal skus are available on many products, but not all of them. There are also some rules around the use of these skus:

• The 2 and 3 year Protect Plus Gold Support skus are not allowed to be co-termed
  
  

• A maximum of one sold per customer at their renewal time is allowed
  
  

• The 2 or 3 year Protect Plus Gold Support skus can be sold with a new licence, giving you a total of 3 or 4 years of support purchased up front

Subscription licences 

Some products are sold as subscription licences instead of perpetual licences. This means that instead of owning a right to use the product forever, you have to subscribe to the service on an annual or bi-annual basis (depending upon whether you choose a 1 or 2 year subscription). At the time of renewal, you can either re-subscribe to the service by purchasing the product again, or walk away and use a different product.

Examples of products that are sold under this scheme are:

• Total Protection Service
• Total Protection Service - Advanced
• VirusScan - Student use
• Anti-Spyware - Student use
• Web Filtering Module (per hardware unit)

Some products are sold as subscription licences instead of perpetual licences. This means that instead of owning a right to use the product forever, you have to subscribe to the service on an annual or bi-annual basis (depending upon whether you choose a 1 or 2 year subscription). At the time of renewal, you can either re-subscribe to the service by purchasing the product again, or walk away and use a different product. To process the renewal, the existing Grant Number is required on the order - this can be found on the Certificate which is issued with the original order or each renewal. If the existing Grant Number is not shown, McAfee will not be able to recognise that you already have an existing subscription in place, possibly resulting in starting a new subscription service.