SAIC [SAI] and McAfee yesterday said they are partnering to provide customers with a more comprehensive range of cyber security solutions.
“Customers are looking for security platforms, applications and services that can take a commanding role in establishing threat readiness and ultimately protecting high value networks,” Joe Sexton, executive vice president of Global Sales at McAfee, said in a statement. “McAfee Network Threat Response technology combined with SAIC’s solutions-based deployment approach offers information technology professionals advanced security at every level across the network.”
Initially the partnership will combine McAfee’s Network Threat Response, which captures, deconstructs and analyzes malware in real-time, with SAIC’s PN41, a deep packet inspection architecture for security and control applications, or the company’s CS4000, a modular chassis supporting high-speed packet and software-driven content processing.
The combined solution permits a security model that helps chief information officers and chief information security officers “to consume virtualized services and applications based on their unique threat vectors and desired security posture as an alternative approach that is long overdue,” Charles Beard, SAIC’s CIO and director for Cyber Security Products and Solutions, said in a statement.
The current approach is embedded hardware that gets refreshed every five years but doesn’t answer to the “emerging threat landscape and legal liabilities faced by businesses around the world,” Beard said.
The companies aid the potential customers include intelligence, national governments, telecommunications companies and other enterprises globally.
McAfee is a unit of Intel Corp. [INTC].