Sometimes having too many products doesn’t help IT departments but confuses them

That’s what McAfee Inc. found out when talking to organizations about endpoint security. The company has admitted that having nine groups of products for businesses wasn’t helping them solve problems, so it has merged tjem into two suites – one for large enterprises, and one for small to mid-size ones. And it cut the price.

It said Wednesday that McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection for Enterprise (for over 1,000 users), and for Business (for under 1,000 users) link security from chip to applications for devices running Windows iOS and Linux.

They not only include traditional malware protection but also Deep Defender, a rootkit protection and mobile device management.

The suites have slightly different capabilities: The Enterprise edition include dynamic whitelisting and an endpoint risk analyzer. The Business edition lacks those, but does including the ability to encrypt data.

As expected, the suites can be overseen by McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator management application, which is included. 

“We continually release new products to solve new threats as they emerge, but our customers and our partners really struggle to keep up with us,”