Sponsor: McAfee, Inc.
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Greg Young, Greg Brown
Type: Audio (37 minutes)
Next generation firewalls deliver significant advances in firewall management, application discovery and threat protection. By using global reputation-based technology, including reputation-based blocking and geo-location, to filter unwanted traffic before it hits the network, next generation firewalls stop attacks before they happen.
Next generation firewalls offer visibility, recognition and policy enforcement capability over thousands of Web 2.0 and other network applications that are invisible to current security solutions. In so doing, next generation firewalls provide security administrators with levels of network control dramatically greater than those provided by existing firewalls.
But what specific advantages do next-generation firewalls offer over traditional defenses? And how do you determine the right next-generation firewall solution for your security needs? Find out in this new program now.
Join Greg Brown, Senior Director of Product Marketing for McAfee’s Network Defense Portfolio as he discusses how McAfee, the world’s largest dedicated security company, offers all the network security functions you need - intrusion prevention, firewall, network access control, anti-spam, anti-malware, web filtering, and outbound content control – to stop the onslaught of new threats.
Plus, in this program you’ll learn how McAfee helps you:
> Streamline firewall management
Put firewall rules in the proper business context to greatly reduce troubleshooting efforts; and simplify rule optimization, policy configuration, and compliance auditing with centralized management and reporting.
> Reduce your attack surface area
Stop the latest threats and eliminate unwanted traffic with reputation-based global threat intelligence, configurable application-level protection, encrypted traffic inspection, intrusion prevention, anti-virus, and content filtering.
> Improve business agility and reduce costs
Gain visibility into network usage, enable faster response times to network outages, implement new applications faster; use fewer appliances and reduce maintenance costs.
In this program, you’ll also hear from Greg Young, Vice President for Network Security Research at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc. You’ll learn how you can benefit from the four key attributes of a next-generation firewall. Hear why last-generation firewalls can’t cut it anymore. Find out how changes to the treat landscape and changes to the application landscape are too much for last-generation firewalls to handle. And discover why every current firewall user and every enterprise is a candidate for a next-generation firewall.
So check out this new program and join two leading security experts as they discuss next-generation firewall solutions. Hear real life examples of how McAfee’s next-generation firewall supports business rules. Find out how to actually migrate to a next-generation firewall. And hear the questions you should ask to ensure you find the right provider/solution for your needs. Go now.
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About Greg Brown, Senior Director, McAfee, Inc.
Greg Brown assumed his current role in 2008, championing value delivery for McAfee's network defense portfolio. Brown joined the McAfee network intrusion prevention product management team in 2006. In that role he sponsored industry leading advances in network security integration with McAfee's systems and risk management product lines. He has more than 15 years experience in the network security and telecommunications industry, working with silicon technology vendors, security software/hardware vendors and service providers. He has provided design consultant services for national IT security infrastructure programs on four continents, and was the principal designer for first time national Internet infrastructure programs in more than 30 countries.
About Greg Young, Research Vice President, Gartner
Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner. His primary coverage area is network security.
Mr. Young has more than 20 years of experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security and was head of IT security for the Federal Department of Communications. He received the confederation medal from the Governor General of Canada for his work with smart card security, headed a large security consulting practice, was chief security architect for a security product company, and headed several large security consulting practices.
