Cloud security focus shifts to email and personal data

McAfee is upgrading its cloud security platform to address "three major traffic channels" because of the new features of e-mail, web, and identity information.

"Identity, Web, and e-mail security components will be the prerequisite and key to deploying cloud-based solutions for Enterprise IT customers in the next few years," said Phil Hochmuth, project manager at IDC Security Products services. ”

Here is a brief introduction to some of the new features added to the Maikfeil security platform:

• Data loss-prevention capabilities in email and web gateways

· McAfee epolicy orchestrator Platform for security and event visibility across the Enterprise Web report

• Mixed Web protection deployment support, SaaS deployment simplifies management from a single console while ensuring consistent policy implementation for all WEB traffic

The protection of the mobile workforce environment is especially a major theme here. With identity management, policy-adjusted decisions, whether in network and mobile device extensions, McAfee client proxies provide authentication and traffic redirection from offline computers to McAfee Web protection solutions.

These improvements may come in handy to mitigate the security dilemma for sensitive data and related BYOD trends, as well as for remote workers.

Overall, the framework is designed to enable enterprise customers to extend their security and policy implementation clouds and provide real-time protection and threat information to all industries, including the three-channel threat data.