McAfee adds compliance to Total Protection

McAfee is targeting 'audit fatigue'

Security firm McAfee has added a set of auditing and compliance tools to its Total Protection suite.

The new tools are designed to help enterprises better assess security settings in light of various legal and industry regulations. The new package will include an auditing tool and a series of templates for popular compliance standards.

Total Protection for Compliance is designed to combat what McAfee refers to as 'audit fatigue'.

Bob Tesh, marketing group manager at McAfee, said that businesses in some sectors are required to meet more than 10 different security and data management regulations, and that up to 60 per cent of enterprises have to perform audits manually.

"This definitely had a negative impact in terms of their efficiency and ability to meet compliance standards," said Tesh. "What we saw is that a lot of companies are in this manual phase. Our objective is to help them complete the automated phase."

The new tools also aim to simplify the use of this information. Because the tools work alongside other Total Protection services within McAfee's e-Policy Orchestrator tool, the process of applying fixes and policies to meet compliance needs is streamlined.

This is designed to make life easier for security directors and managers, and to meet what McAfee sees as growing interest in auditing and compliance across the entire IT sector, particularly by everyday IT staff.

"These are the people that have been tasked with system availability and performance management, but these are also the people involved in the first line of investigation," said Tesh.

"We are also seeing a carry over into business unit managers - guys who aren't even in IT, but who are interested in how their assets are in compliance."