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McAfee Named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Cloud Access Security BrokersMcAfee (News - Alert), the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today announced it was named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Cloud Access Security Brokers. Gartner (News - Alert) defines the cloud access security brokers (CASB) market as products and services that provide visibility into general cloud application usage, data protection and governance for enterprise-sanctioned cloud applications. This technology is the result of the need to secure the significantly increased adoption of cloud services and access to them from users both within and outside of the traditional enterprise perimeter. "We take great pride in being named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Cloud Access Security Brokers," said Rajiv Gupta, senior vice president of the Cloud Security Business Unit at McAfee. "McAfee/Skyhigh was the first cloud access security broker provider to secure corporate data in the cloud by delivering a cloud-native security solution. It is our customer satisfaction and feedback that continues to drive our innovation and shape our products and services. We are grateful for this feedback and recognition." "The Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice is a recognition of vendors in this market by verified end-user professionals, taking into account both the number of reviews and the overall user ratings." To ensure fair evaluation, Gartner maintains rigorous criteria for recognizing vendors with a high customer satisfaction rate. For this distinction, a vendor must have a minimum of 50 published reviews with an average ovrall rating of 4.2 stars or higher. McAfee received 102 reviews, more than twice the next vendor in the CASB category, and an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 for McAfee Skyhigh Security Cloud as of May 15, 2018. Additional Resources:
About Peer Insights: Peer Insights is an online platform of ratings and reviews of IT software and services that are written and read by IT professionals and technology decision-makers. The goal is to help IT leaders make more insightful purchase decisions and help technology providers improve their products by receiving objective, unbiased feedback from their customers. Gartner Peer Insights includes more than 70,000 verified reviews in more than 200 markets. For more information, please visit www.gartner.com/reviews/home. Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice distinctions are determined by the subjective opinions of individual end-user customers based on their own experiences, the number of published reviews on Gartner Peer Insights, and overall ratings for a given vendor in the market, as further described here, and are not intended in any way to represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. About McAfee McAfee is the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company. Inspired by the power of working together, McAfee creates business and consumer solutions that make our world a safer place. www.mcafee.com McAfee technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software, or service activation. No computer system can be absolutely secure. McAfee® and the McAfee logo are trademarks of McAfee, LLC or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other marks and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
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