McAfee MVision

2019: Integration of McAfee Mvision Cloud for Microsoft Azure into the DevOps tools

On December 12, 2019 the McAfee company provided upgraded version of McAfee MVISION Cloud for Microsoft Azure. Approach of "Shift Left" will help customers to implement this solution and to beforehand fix problems of normative compliance and risks in the cloud infrastructure. Connection of McAfee MVISION Cloud will allow to implement security in DevOps process already at early stages. Specialists will be able to reveal imperfect configurations before they become threat for production. Finally the organizations will have an opportunity quickly and effectively to unroll applications in a cloud, without being afraid for their reliability.

As noted in McAfee, the IaaS model and "the platform - as-service" provide to customers the necessary choice and flexibility. However, in the presence of errors in a configuration these Wednesdays considerably increase risks of security and the surface of the attack. The McAfee MVISION Cloud for Azure functions allow to build in directly politicians processes and the DevOps tool kits and, as a result, to detect security concerns before deployment of systems and to accelerate business operations in a cloud.

McAfee MVISION Cloud for Azure functions mentioned by the developer:

• Check of security of the Azure Resource Manager templates: detection of vulnerabilities or errors of a configuration in the Azure Resource Manager Templates templates before deployment of resources.
• Built-in integration into tools of developers: check of security in processes of DevOps thanks to API integration into popular tools, including Microsoft Git, Github and Azure DevOps. Feedback on security (Security Feedback) directly during development allows to save time and efforts and to avoid problems.
• The universal system of cloud security Unified Cloud Security for Azure ecosystem: Azure services for developers (IaaSPaaS//containers) with the security protections which are built in by default which rely on front lines of practice of Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM).
• Prevention of risks: the improved compliance to requirements of statutory regulations, decrease in probability of the date leaks, abuses and penalties connected with inefficiency of a security system thanks to timely detection of vulnerabilities and errors before they lead to emergence of incidents.

According to the developer, approach of "Shift Left" allows the organizations to avoid the most widespread problems with security. According to Cloud-Native: Affirms as the report on acceptance and risks of the infrastructure-as-service model that 99% of errors in the IaaS configurations remain unnoticed. The majority of instruments of audit of the configurations IaaS, PaaS and containers estimate risks only of those resources which are already started. Check of systems right after their start is important for correction of deviations in a configuration and also for timely detection and elimination of potential errors in settings. Otherwise these errors will repeat again and again: templates can be used for creation of other systems that will lead to multiplication of real risks. Potentially the great number of development teams of the organization will face this problem.

"Developers even more often use modern tools to work "with cloud speed" and to help conversion of the companies. Having integrated McAfee MVISION Cloud for Microsoft Azure with the DevOps tools, security experts will eliminate risk of start of systems with errors in a configuration. Besides, this measure will lower load of the commands servicing infrastructure: they will be able to solve problems at an emergence source and also to apply and estimate security policies on a centralized basis, without interfering with development processes", 'Rajiv Gupta, the senior vice president of division for cloud security of McAfee company noted'

"With McAfee MVISION Cloud specialists of Microsoft in security achieved bigger transparency of work of cloud resources, increased quality of control over them and also had an opportunity to detect threats and to react to them at earlier stages of lifecycle of development. In general, the solutions McAfee help customers to implement possibilities of Azure services fully. With them security stops being an obstacle to accomplishment of tasks", 'Scott Woodgate the senior director of division of Azure Security of Microsoft corporation noted'

According to the statement of the developer, McAfee MVISION Cloud for Microsoft Teams there is a solution for cloud security which equally effectively works in the environments IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and container environments. Fast and trouble-free integration with infrastructure of Azure is performed using the application programming interface (API). This integration will strengthen a security system which covers infrastructure of IaaS/PaaS and customized applications, and will help the companies to observe requirements to security and management and also regulatory requirements.

As of December, 2019 the McAfee MVISION Cloud for Microsoft Azure functions answering to provisions of strategy "Shift Left" are already available.

2018: Announcement of a product line of MVision

In July, 2018 McAfee announced return to the software market for cyber defense of mobile devices. In assortment of the company there was MVision product line focused more on large business.

Were a part of a new packet a safety management system  of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, MVision Mobile and MVision Endpoint. They will be offered clients all together in the form of an annual subscription. Sales will begin in August, 2018, did not call a quotation in the company.

In a conversation with the CRN edition the senior director on McAfee product management Nathan Jenniges noted that the company did not propose the solution for information security of smartphones and tablets several years, and instead she relied on products of the partners. But against the background of development of threats and emergence of bigger number of vulnerabilities in devices and operating systems clients and partners began to address even more often concerning mobile security.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator interface

Dzhennidzhes noted that the line of MVision expands a circle of devices which can be managed and also will make product a portfolio of McAfee simpler, more many-sided and competitive.

The MVision Mobile application installed on iOS and Android is intended for identification of advanced cyber attacks to devices, programs and networks. McAfee is profitable distinguished from competitors on the market of mobile solutions by the integrated management console which can be configured for work with desktops, notebooks, servers and cloud services of Amazon and Microsoft, Nathan Dzhennidzhes emphasized.

MVision Endpoint is offered in service quality of SaaS of the corporate level in which significant improvements in comparison with cloud ePO which the company offered earlier are provided.^[1]

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