McAfee Announces Availability of Multi-Layered Threat Protection

McAfee SecurityShield Provides Robust Secure Content Management - Anti-virus Protection, Virus Outbreak Management, Spam Filtering and Content Scanning - for Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Customers

WORLDWIDE PARTNER CONFERENCE 2004, TORONTO, July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), the leading provider of intrusion prevention solutions, today announced the availability of McAfee SecurityShield for the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004. McAfee SecurityShield works with ISA Server 2000 and 2004, an advanced application layer firewall, VPN and Web cache solution, to help enterprise customers secure the content entering and leaving their organization through unmatched secure content management functionality and performance.

McAfee SecurityShield is part of the McAfee Secure Content Management solutions family and is designed to help small to large enterprises optimize resources, increase productivity and prevent industry and company policy compromises. McAfee SecurityShield provides layered content management protection from the edge of the network to the key application servers, in a single solution through a single vendor. The product offers flexible policy management, a highly reliable architecture and best-of-breed technology components that can be managed system-wide.

"In today's constantly changing environment, IT administrators find that traditional stand-alone anti-virus, anti-spam and perimeter security approaches are not enough to ensure the highest level of protection for IT administrators and their organizations," said Raj Dhingra, vice president of corporate and product marketing at McAfee. "McAfee SecurityShield for the Microsoft ISA Server 2004 is engineered for customers who want a secure content management solution that provides secure content, virus and spam detection, all in a single solution. It is easy to use, deploy and manage -- lifting the unnecessary burden to retain specialized IT staff."

"Customers have told us that they need solutions to help make their networks more resilient in the presence of malicious content and viruses," said David Gardner, business development manager of the Security Business and Technology Unit at Microsoft Corp. "By deploying ISA Server 2004 with McAfee SecurityShield technologies, customers will have a stronger defense against new and emerging threats."

McAfee SecurityShield adds to ISA Server 2004's advanced protection, ease of use and fast, secure access capabilities with award-winning McAfee anti-virus technology, virus outbreak management and content scanning, as well as an optional anti-spam protection component with McAfee SpamKiller for SecurityShield. McAfee SpamKiller scans traffic entering the organization for spam through five detailed levels of protection -- integrity analysis, heuristic detection, content filtering, blacklists and whitelists, and most important, bayesian filtering. With McAfee SecurityShield, end users can help ensure their organizations are protected against inappropriate content, spam, viruses and malicious code in e-mail -- increasing employee productivity and decreasing the time spent controlling virus outbreaks.

McAfee SecurityShield is centrally managed by McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), a system security management tool that offers enterprise users complete control and visibility into their system security. McAfee ePO offers policy management and enforcement, enterprise-wide visibility, rapid software deployment and distribution of the latest virus definitions. With McAfee ePO, enterprises can implement improved security management for a lower total cost of ownership.

McAfee SecurityShield will be available beginning mid-August worldwide through McAfee and its SecurityAlliance partners. For more information on pricing, please visit http://www.mcafee.com or call 888-VIRUS-NO.

About McAfee, Inc. With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., McAfee, Inc. creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. McAfee's customers span large enterprises, governments, small and medium sized businesses, and consumers. For more information, McAfee, Inc. can be reached at 972-963-8000 or on the Internet at http://www.mcafee.com .

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