McAfee launches SIEM product to handle \'big security data\'

McAfee has announced the launch of its Enterprise Security Manager to introduce security information and event management (SIEM) technology to its portfolio.

Following the purchase of NitroSecurity last year, it said that this launch brings situational awareness and accuracy for SIEM with threat visibility from the McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, and countermeasure awareness through McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software and Risk Advisor.

It called this next-generation SIEM because it is “built for giant security data” and gives meaningful intelligence by delivering immediate information on events, users, systems, data, risks and countermeasures for accurate situational awareness. It also said that it has a scalable database that was built to deal with big security data which is in a position to not just processing billions of events per day, but connecting those events with threat, countermeasure and user identity information to produce accurate and actionable intelligence.

This release is anticipated be available mid-quarter.

Stuart McClure, worldwide chief technology officer and general manager of the safety management business unit at McAfee, said: “Less than six months after acquisition we're already taking major steps to advance situational awareness with our security management solutions. We're committed to providing our customers with an open platform, that is critical for fulfillment within the SIEM space. McAfee customers receive the foremost intelligent and fastest SIEM in the marketplace and receive greater value from the McAfee solutions they've already invested in.”