McAfee is to supply anti-virus scanning software to SAP.

The e-business company will use McAfee's Active VirusScan, for multi-layered protection against malicious threats.

McAfee VirusScan(R) Enterprise 8.0i and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator(R) (ePO(TM)) 3.5, will provide SAP with threat protection software at the desktop and file server levels of the network, plus centralized policy management, control and reporting.

SAP is implementing McAfee Active VirusScan across 30,000 of its desktops and servers, with a rollout planned in the third quarter of 2005. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i, which is the first anti-virus software product to integrate elements of intrusion prevention and firewall technology into a single security agent, will provide advanced protection for SAP's PCs and servers, blocking and removing attacks even without signature updates.

The solution manages protection of desktop computers, file servers and groupware servers, including gateway, and covers virus protection, personal firewalls, anti-spam, content filtering and host intrusion prevention systems to offer comprehensive system security management for enterprise users. The system enables flexible implementation of security policies and snapshots of security posture & infrastructure to be diagrammed.

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