If the client provides a rule-based requirement, we have to go with their requirements. The type of configurations can be critical. Say we have got around 3,000 to 10,000 servers. The deployment for McAfee MVISION Endpoint, after everything has been considered and all of the points have been taken into account, takes some time. Security solutions should also focus on providing that rather than forcing users on to different products and having to manage multiple solutions. You have to be sure you can configure it so the product remains secure across platforms. The question is about configuration management using tools on the cloud platforms. Then the second point is all about the features and configuration. There can be performance concerns for products on the cloud. We are looking at the cloud solutions in the same sense. If it is a firewall implemented on the network, that product should be providing the service without excessive expense or resources in performance. Otherwise, implementation is not challenging.īy optimizing the performance, I mean that you should not change the function of the basic purpose of a security product. The real difference comes in how you want to optimize the performance. The installation and implementation are the easiest parts of using the product. If you have a look into the Gartner report, there are many companies that are making advances in this category of product and it means competition for McAfee. Those should be the key areas which they are focusing on right now to improve the utility of the product moving forward. So, they could improve things with a web application firewall, and improve intrusion detection and prevention. It is very important to do more to cover the security of these more invasive practices. This is something that definitely could be improved, especially with intrusion detection and intervention. So these are the firewall and then there are other things they could be offering as a single source to create a more secure environment as a proactive solution. These three layers are a part of the firewall. They have the features for the hardware detection and the platform access, then on the application layers. For example, the endpoint security product uses every desktop like service. What they can do is offer more in order to be a leader in innovation for different architectures rather than for enterprise only. That can be part of multi-tier platforms and would be more flexible. That may allow part of a solution on-site. For example, every organization is going into hybrid-cloud. Improvements that I would like to see in MVISION would be to provide some additional features for the cloud to make their product a one-stop solution. It ended up not being what we hoped for in an endpoint solution.īecause McAfee was infected, other endpoint protections were also affected that made the situation more difficult to resolve. It left us in a little bit of a vulnerable situation. Eventually, what we had to do is find out which servers got infected and then we had to roll back those servers to a previous backup.
We could not even access the infected file servers.īecause we could not access the servers in that attack, we could not even remove all the threats. That time, we did an analysis, but the systems crashed. I do not know the exact CDC (Communication Device Class) details.
We experienced one virus attack that the product did not catch. The biggest problem we had with this product was when the DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) did not respond well to a threat.