McAfee Cloud Security Platform

The anti-virus developer McAfee announced in May, 2011 the platform of security intended for protection of content and traffic of the business users and IT departments which transferred the data and the software to cloud environments. McAfee says that the new product purchases the special importance against the background of recent problems with cloud services of Amazon and Sony Playstation Network companies.

The McAfee Cloud Security Platform platform protects all entering and outgoing email - web and other traffic. The enterprises receive secure system of information exchange between the resources and a remote computing cloud. Also the product supports a system of the uniform authorization allowing the user by one password to enter on different resources whereas storage of passwords happens on servers of provider of services.

McAfee says that innovation is compatible to the majority of public cloud services and supports widespread technologies for creation of private computing clouds.

It is possible to manage a product both via the individual interface, and through a management system of ePolicy Orchestrator or McAfee SaaS Control Console. New development obtains data for the analysis from remote base of knowledge of McAfee Global Threat Intelligence.

To make Cloud Security Platform technology the comprehensive solution for security in corporate networks, the McAfee company submitted much the strengthened versions of the systems for prevention of date leak (DLP). Now DLP modules as a part of Cloud Security Platform provide control of mail gateways of the customer and gateways of Internet access. Besides, at the disposal of IT administrators there was now an improved web control panel and reportings which allows to set uniform politicians and parameters in the hybrid systems including cloud and local components. Additional protection of end systems against unauthorized changes in a configuration or in the software is provided by a new locking gear of software taking into account a context. Besides, collection of information about all significant changes by under control machines in real time is supported.

The module of protection of web traffic provides redirection of all traffic from office notebooks on the corporate web gateway or on cloud provider. Thereby full compliance corporate the politician even is provided during the work with network out of network of the enterprise – in hotels, the airports and even in an Internet cafe worldwide. According to the company McAfee, it helps to avoid the risks connected with the growing variety of the places and styles of work available to the modern mobile user at access to important information of the company.

One more important innovation concerns application of a cloud technology of uniform registration (SSO – Single Sign-On) from Intel company. The single console of management ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) for systems and McAfee services supports now creation of corporate portals where individual users of the organization can get access to cloud applicaions. At the moment sharing of technologies of Intel and McAfee already provides convenient access to hundreds of cloud applicaions created on the popular Force.com platform of Salesforce.com company without requiring permanent registration and login.

The cloud mechanism of uniform registration also offers convenient tools for password generation – these tools are available to terminal units running the Windows, Android, IOS and RIM operating systems. Relying on the corporate technologies of authentication hardwired in chips of Intel, the generated passwords provide a uniform input with one electronic certificate for all target platforms and applications via the uniform portal.