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McAfee Mobility Management released

Over the last year businesses have realised a growth in the number of user devices being used in the workplace – such as smartphones and tablets - a move that has resulted in the need for an extension of most security infrastructures.

In response to this need, AxizWorkgroup has announced the local availability of McAfee’s Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) 9.5 software. EMM now includes integration with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform, providing customers with unified management of their endpoint, network and data security products.

“The end-to-end visibility and control provided by the ePO platform will help IT administrators dramatically strengthen their protection and drive down the cost and complexity of managing their risk and security,” says Andrea van der Westhuizen, product manager, McAfee at AxizWorkgroup.

Additional new features and benefits of EMM 9.5 include:

* Enterprise App Store – Businesses can now offer recommended applications through a secure enterprise app store, while maintaining complete visibility into the applications that reside on these employee-owned devices.

* Enhanced iOS4 support – EMM 9.5 features a full API set for mobile device management, allowing IT administrators the ability to create a list of recommended applications-based parameters such as the user and their roles and responsibilities, and sub-lists, which can be sent to individuals or groups.

* Enhanced public key infrastructure (PKI) capabilities – McAfee now offers PKI capabilities through the Microsoft Certificate Authority, providing strong authentication for devices accessing the corporate network. Smartphones and tablets can now connect to the network VPN using client certificates, in the same way as laptops.

* Support for the Android Tablet – In addition to support for the Android 2.2 and Motorola Droid Pro, EMM 9.5 now extends support for Android 2.3 and offers full support for Android-based tablets.

* Enhanced Lotus Domino support – Lotus Domino users using Lotus Traveller 8.5.2 can now leverage the capabilities of EMM software.

EMM 9.5 lets companies extend the data centre to smartphones and tablets in the same way they do for laptops, leveraging the native capabilities of the device and the enterprise IT infrastructure to deliver native applications.

“The solution – with its scalable, server-centric architecture – lets organisations manage the next generation of mobile devices with the same security, control and visibility they have with their other endpoints,” says Van der Westhuizen.

For more information contact Andrea van der Westhuizen, AxizWorkgroup, +27 (0)11 654 6000, [email protected]

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