Intel Security and AirWatch Mobile Security Alliance Join Forces to Enhance Security on Mobile Devices
VMware has expanded its collaboration with Intel Security to include joint solutions for customers using the AirWatch by VMware Enterprise Mobility Management platform. The two companies have partnered on two initiatives to enable technology integrations that will help enterprises meet today’s complex mobile security challenges more effectively and efficiently.
The integration of AirWatch with Intel Security technologies will be designed to help customers maximize the value of their current security investments, resolve mobile threats more quickly and reduce operational costs. This joint initiative augments the current portfolio of VMware and Intel Security solutions, which includes advanced security for the software-defined data center.
Additionally, Intel Security has joined the AirWatch Mobile Security Alliance (MSA). The alliance forged by Intel Security and VMware addresses three vital areas of enterprise security – data protection, threat detection and prevention and security management with integrated workflows. “This partnership with Intel Security will help deliver more a complete mobile security solution and affirms our commitment to making the shift to the mobile-cloud era seamless for our customers. Through McAfee Data Exchange Layer, enterprises will be empowered to communicate essential threat intelligence that can help drive faster response and remediation,” said Noah Wasmer, Vice President of mobile engineering and product management, End-User Computing, VMware.
D.J. Long, Head of the Intel Security Innovation Alliance said, “The VMware and Intel Security partnership is the an integral part of our mobile security strategy and is an important step toward improving our mutual customers’ threat defense lifecycle and providing better data protection, regardless of where that data resides or travels.”
