FireMon Announces Support for McAfee Vulnerability Manager

OVERLAND PARK, KS--(Marketwired - Oct 2, 2013) -  FireMon, a leading provider of security management and risk analysis solutions, today announced an expanded profile in the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance™ (SIA) program with full support for McAfee® Vulnerability Manager. The announcement was made in conjunction with McAfee FOCUS 13, where FireMon will be exhibiting in Booth #312.

FireMon continues to expand its partnership with McAfee and one of their solutions has achieved McAfee Compatible status for a second time by integrating FireMon Security Manager and Risk Analyzer with McAfee Vulnerability Manager. Previously, FireMon had integrated its FireMon Security Manager and Risk Analyzer with McAfee® Firewall Enterprise. FireMon has been a member of the McAfee SIA Sales Teaming Partner program since 2012. The integrated solution extends McAfee customers' ability to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of security operations staff, ensure business continuity with secure access and reduce preparation time for compliance audits.

FireMon Security Manager identifies, continually assesses and remediates -- in real-time -- the impact of change or misconfiguration on the security policy and controls of all popular security and network devices. The Risk Analyzer module imports the vulnerabilities identified by McAfee Vulnerability Manager and assesses them against the unique configurations found in each individual network to identify the assets with vulnerabilities that are actually reachable. FireMon then quantitatively prioritizes the vulnerabilities for remediation according to which present the greatest overall risk to the organization.

FireMon continues its investment in the McAfee SIA partnership with the ongoing development of extensive support for the McAfee Next Generation Firewall, powered by Stonesoft. Upcoming support includes compliance and configuration auditing, automatic configuration retrieval, normalization and storage, and configuration analysis and visualization via FireMon Insight, and will be available in Q4 2013.

"McAfee's efforts with SIA partners around building a robust ecosystem for comprehensive protection is a model for the industry," said Jody Brazil, president and CTO of FireMon. "FireMon is a vanguard in making sure that the controls, policies and implementation of that ecosystem don't conflict or create vulnerability. And just as new innovations like next-generation firewalls advance the state-of-the-art, FireMon's innovations ensure the ecosystem is future proof."

"A key goal behind the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance program is to accelerate the development of interoperable security products and simplify the integration of those products in complex customer environments," said Ed Barry, vice president of the Security Innovation Alliance at McAfee. "We're thrilled to see FireMon leverage McAfee's investment in its security risk management platform and extend this value to customers."

The McAfee Vulnerability Manager, with its Asset Manager feature, delivers unrivaled scalability and performance, actively or passively canvassing everything on the network. Now customers have the ability to uncover devices hidden on the network as well as smartphones, tablets and laptops that come and go between scheduled scans. What hasn't been seen or scanned may be a surprise to some customers -- and could jeopardize compliance. Thousands of organizations rely on the McAfee Vulnerability Manager to quickly find and prioritize vulnerabilities, with deployments ranging from a few hundred nodes to one continuously scanning more than four million IP addresses.

For more information on McAfee SIA please visit: http://www.mcafee.com/sia.

About FireMon
FireMon is the industry leader in providing enterprises, government and managed services providers with advanced security management solutions that deliver deeper visibility and tighter control over their network security infrastructure. The integrated FireMon solution suite -- Security Manager, Policy Planner and Risk Analyzer -- enables customers to identify network risk, proactively prevent access to vulnerable assets, clean up firewall policies, automate compliance, strengthen security throughout the organization, and reduce the cost of security operations. For more information, visit http://www.firemon.com.

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