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Better Visibility and Visible SavingsCentralize security management to see your world, your way
Many firms spend less than 15 minutes a day managing their security-without sacrificing protection. Some deploy Security-as-a-Service with McAfee SecurityCenter, which is preconfigured to best practices and the most common policies. Some select McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, which gives them flexible and extensive control to tailor views and rules. What these companies have learned is that with McAfee you can have all the security and visibility you need and spend less money and time in the process.1 console 29% If you have more than one product installed to manage your security for your systems, data, network, 2 consoles 20% and web and email traffic, you probably use more than one administrative system to get a complete picture of your security vital signs. That is reality for more than two-thirds of companies with 1000 or 3 consoles 17% fewer users, according to an MSI International Survey in March 2009. That study revealed that over 4 consoles 2% 30 percent of respondents keep tabs on five or more security management consoles. When every 5 or more 31% minute counts, you should count the extra cost and time spent keeping tracking of these different administrative systems, as well as the toll that complexity takes on your visibility and risk.Over 30 percent of companies surveyed use five or more consoles Test Your Security Management IQto manage security. With disjointed management of security systems, you perform extra steps every day. Read this list and highlight the activities that help your business become more efficient, more agile, or more secure.Source: MSI Survey, 2009 . Learning curve-Every new tool and each new layer of security means added time spent with tutorials or trial-and-error pecking at a new user interface. ?"We're able to see very easily, System expenses-It's common for each management server to require its own hardware, separate quickly, and we're able to react to from the machine actually running the security software itself, so you have to purchase, install, and it much faster than we ever had in maintain each environmentthe past." . Protection and policy configuration-You have to enter or integrate user data and policies separately -McAfee ePO customer for each product, each time, then go back in to fix typos and mistakes, if and when you notice them, repeating every time a user changes jobs, or your business changes rules. Maintenance-You receive separate alerts for each security and feature update, and you watch several different windows to keep track of which systems have upgraded which software. Risk monitoring-Based on daily threat research you find on different websites, you interpret the potential impact to your environment from each new threat, implementation delay, or vulnerability and adjust your policies and activities accordingly, continually. Incident response-When there's an attack, you spend hours diagnosing its cause, then hours tracking down the right fix from one or more vendors, and days rolling out patches. Reporting-Spreadsheets are your nemesis as you manually enter status, audit, and event data to build reports for your CIO, CFO, and, occasionally, your auditorThat, of course, was a trick test. All of these activities take time away from more productive uses of your IT talents. And they don't improve your security. That's why more and more companies are turning to McAfee. Our integrated approach to security includes simplified, centralized management, regardless of whether you choose our in-the-cloud or onsite solutions. Solutions Brief Centralized Security Management for Better Visibility and Visible Savings
A Continuum of Control: McAfee SecurityCenter and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator ®Now, contrast the productivity gains in this scenario, featuring centralized management with McAfee ® TSecurityCenter for managed services or McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO ) on site. . Learning curve-One familiar environment presents all your protections, so new features do not faze you; and if you manage onsite, you can see extra tools, like policy auditing, as new tabs within the view you have made your own. System expenses-If you choose Security-as-a-Service, your management system lives at McAfee, and all you need is a browser. If you choose McAfee ePO, then one environment handles everything, o... [download for more]