General Motors Acceptance Corporation Selects McAfee Active Virus Defense Suite of Products NETWORK ASSOCIATES LOGO Network Associates, Inc. Logo. (PRNewsFoto)[KC] SANTA CLARA, CA USA 11/04/1999
17 October 2000
General Motors Acceptance Corporation Selects McAfee Active Virus Defense Suite of Products NETWORK ASSOCIATES LOGO Network Associates, Inc. Logo. (PRNewsFoto)[KC] SANTA CLARA, CA USA 11/04/1999
McAfee Anti-Virus Products to Protect More Than 200 North American
GMAC Offices Against Internet Viruses and Malicious Code Attacks
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 17 McAfee, a
Network Associates, Inc. business, today announced that
General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC), a wholly owned subsidiary of
General Motors Corporation , will use the McAfee Active Virus
Defense suite of products to protect its information technology infrastructure
against Internet viruses and malicious code attacks. As a result of
General Motors' deployment of McAfee products to 68,000 employees globally,
GMAC will deploy the McAfee Active Virus Defense line of products to more than
200 North American offices. GMAC manages sensitive financial information and
transactions, including on-line car auctions, and looks to safeguard its data
from virus and malicious code attacks using the McAfee Active Virus Defense
suite.
"McAfee products have demonstrated their ability to protect the
General Motors infrastructure, so making the decision to switch to McAfee was
an easy one," said Don Reid, director of operations management for GMAC.
"Leveraging the experience of our parent company, we were able to build a safe
and secure system at GMAC and, to date, have been well satisfied with the
results."
According to independent research organization Computer Economics, the
total worldwide damage done by computer virus attacks last year was
$12.7 Billion. Acknowledging these threats, GMAC acted to implement increased
security measures to ensure customer information was kept safe within their
secure network environments. GMAC now protects its IT infrastructure through
a multi-tiered anti-virus defense strategy using the McAfee line of products.
The entire security solution is centrally managed over the Internet via
McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator product, one of the first anti-virus policy
management, enforcement, analysis and reporting solutions specifically
designed for easy administration.
The McAfee Active Virus Defense suite is an integrated, easily managed
Internet anti-virus security solution that enables e-businesses to centrally
manage their anti-virus policy. The suite offers customizable updates and
configurations, stops email-based virus outbreaks before they occur, and uses
graphical reporting methods to obtain a comprehensive view of savings provided
by each tier in their anti-virus defense strategy, all of which can be done
easily over the Internet.
"We are tremendously excited GMAC has selected McAfee to protect its
critical information infrastructure from potentially damaging virus outbreaks
and code attacks," said Michael Callahan, director of product marketing for
McAfee. "GMAC's confidence in our capabilities is extended proof of our
leadership in this area and demonstrates McAfee's leadership as a trusted
provider among the world's leading companies."
GMAC offers financial support for automotive financing, insurance,
mortgage and commercial lending. GMAC is using a select group of components
from the McAfee suite of products that best suit the company's Internet
security objectives. McAfee VirusScan software ensures solid desktop
anti-virus protection, adding granular content filtering and incremental
updating for more timely cures. Additionally, the McAfee NetShield product
provides bulletproof file-server protection, while the McAfee GroupShield and
WebShield products deliver solid groupware and Internet gateway protection.
Designed to stop virus outbreaks before they start, Outbreak Manager monitors
incoming and outgoing email for suspicious patterns and stops new
Internet-borne email viruses solely based on behavior.
GMAC will also benefit from the world-class virus researchers who make up
McAfee AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team). McAfee AVERT is a
24x7 global research organization that works closely with customers and the
anti-virus community to provide up-to-date diagnostics, cures and protection
from new viruses. As with all McAfee customers, McAfee AVERT will work with
GMAC to proactively alert and protect the entire company from the increasingly
prevalent epidemic of virus attacks that flood the Internet.
About GMAC
GMAC, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, operates
under the brand name: GMAC Financial Services. In addition to automotive
financing, its major businesses are insurance, mortgage and commercial
finance. GMAC, one of the world's largest financial services companies, has
27,000 employees at over 700 facilities in 40 countries. Since its inception
in 1919, GMAC has extended more than $1 trillion in credit to finance
146 million cars and trucks. At year-end 1999, GMAC's total company-owned
assets and serviced automotive receivables totaled more than $162 billion.
More information on GMAC Financial Services is available at
http://www.gmacfs.com.
About McAfee
McAfee provides comprehensive and low cost solutions to protect
e-businesses from attacks by malicious Internet applets and viruses. McAfee
Active Virus Defense is the award-winning multi-tier virus security solution
that includes WebShield Internet gateway protection, GroupShield email server
protection, NetShield software for file servers and the VirusScan product for
the desktop and mobile worker. McAfee also provides scalable tools to manage
virus security policy, updates and reporting over the Internet, with ePolicy
Orchestrator and Enterprise SecureCast technology. All McAfee products are
backed by one of the world's leading anti-virus research organization, McAfee
AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team), the team which first identified
Melissa and Bubbleboy, and protects customers against the increasingly complex
and frequent Internet borne attacks that threaten to cripple e-business. For
more information, McAfee can be reached at 800-338-8754 or on the Internet at
http://www.mcafeeb2b.com.
With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. is a
leading supplier of security and availability solutions for e-business.
Network Associates' five business units -- PGP Security (firewall, intrusion
detection and encryption), Sniffer Technologies (network and application
management), Magic Solutions (web-based service desk solutions), McAfee
(anti-virus), and myCIO.com (security and anti-virus services) -- all produce
best-of-breed solutions leveraging core technologies to provide the security
and availability needed for e-business. Network Associates is also a majority
owner of McAfee.com, one of the world's largest business paid subscriber
application service provider. For more information, Network Associates can be
reached at 972-308-9960 or on the Internet at http://www.nai.com.
NOTE: Network Associates, McAfee, PGP, Sniffer, VirusScan, WebShield,
NetShield, GroupShield, PrimeSupport and Magic Solutions are registered
trademarks of Network Associates and/or its affiliates in the United States
and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in
this document are the sole property of their respective owners.