McAfee has announced enhancements to its Network Security Platform, reflecting its commitment to unparalleled threat protection, network performance and operational excellence.  The latest release of McAfee Network Security Platform includes enhanced botnet control through reputation intelligence, virtual network inspection and a traffic analysis port for network monitoring, forensics and other advanced analysis engines.  With this release, McAfee continues to move beyond traditional Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), by providing a greater level of network intelligence across both physical and virtual environments.

“Our customers need more than just signature-based IPS,” said Rees Johnson, senior vice president and general manager of network security at McAfee.  “McAfee Network Security Platform goes well beyond traditional Network IPS with the addition of McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, support for virtual environments, and the ability to correlate across endpoint and network products.”

In the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network IPS[1], Gartner states, “As vulnerability research has improved, the gap between vulnerability exploitation and IPS signatures to protect that vulnerability has closed.  Future protection improvements of significance will come from bringing intelligence into the IPS from external sources instead – points the IPS does not normally have visibility within.”  

Real-time, reputation-based intelligence through McAfee Global Threat Intelligence provides McAfee Network Security Platform users with additional context for enforcing network security policies, not to mention faster, more accurate threat detection.

The latest release of McAfee Network Security Platform includes:

• Enhanced botnet control
• Traffic analysis port
• Virtual network inspection