UPDATED 14:17 EDT / OCTOBER 17 2011

RSA and McAfee for a Single Security Offering

RSA, the security division of storage giant EMC and McAfee (recently acquired by Intel) announced the latest product of a technology partnership, which was announced earlier this year.  The companies now offer a joint solution that bundles the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform with RSA Archer eGRC Platform and RSA Archer Enterprise Management.

RSA Archer is a web-based tool part database management platform that acts as a repository of a company’s business hierarchy and operational infrastructure, along with all the related data.  McAfee’s solution is a similar tool that instead covers an enterprise’s security setup, and the companies decided to put two and two together by integrating the offerings.

“The integration can populate the devices application within RSA Archer with systems in the infrastructure being managed by McAfee ePO. This ongoing synchronization helps ensure that device/platform level information is consistent between GRC processes and IT operations.”

The package allows customers to have better visibility into a broader spectrum of operations, and thus better identity issues.  In addition, McAfee is providing some of its other products as add-ons to the suite, including the McAfee Policy Auditor and Risk Advisor. This means, for example, risk and compliance assessments can be done using RSA Archer based on data from Risk Advisor.

In recent news, RSA had another major announcement in the past week. The company revealed more details about the hack that comprised data about its SecurID authenticator and resulted in a wide-scale cyberattack on US defense contractors. According to a statement the attack was carried out by not one but two teams of hackers, and it was likely sponsored by a nation based on the “skill and the degree and the resource behind the attack.” The attackers sent seemingly trustworthy emails to RSA staffers which, once opened, injected sophisticated malware into the corporate network.


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