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Marc OlesenSenior Vice President and General Manager McAfee Software-as-a-Service Marc Olesen is the senior vice president and general manager of McAfee’s SaaS Security Business Unit. In this role he is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for McAfee SaaS solutions. Olesen is leading the engineering, marketing and sales functions driving worldwide growth for McAfee’s SaaS business. Previously Olesen was the vice president of Software-as-a-Service at HP where he was leading the SaaS for IT Management business and responsible for all solution development, go-to-market and delivery functions. Olesen has over twenty years of professional experience in software and services. His extensive background includes organizational leadership, profit & loss accountability, and solution management. Prior to joining HP, Olesen was the senior director of customer service for Qwest CyberSolutions (QCS), where he was responsible for global application management services. Preceding QCS, Marc was a high-tech consulting practice manager with BearingPoint. Olesen also held positions with Remedy Corporation and Oracle Corporation. He holds a masters degree in industrial engineering and a bachelors degree in economics, both from Stanford University. -
I am very excited to announce a critical milestone in the growth of our Security-as-a-Service business. McAfee has agreed to acquire MX Logic. MX Logic is a leading provider of cloud-based security services including email and web filtering, and email archiving and continuity.
Adding MX Logic’s solutions to McAfee will provide us with the most comprehensive Security-as-a-Service portfolio in the industry. Here are the numbers to prove it:
- McAfee Total Protection Service: Endpoint protection via SaaS. Protects more than five million users with centralized management in the cloud.
- McAfee Vulnerability Assessment: Web application and network vulnerability assessments via SaaS. Real time validation against industry standards including Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). McAfee SECURE helps keep consumers safe from cyber crime by scanning more than 80,000 merchant Web sites daily and serving over 80 billion impressions over the last year. Additionally, McAfee vulnerability scanning services protects more than 250,000 Web sites.
- MX Logic protects 40,000 customers with more than four million end users with email and Web security, and email archiving and continuity services.
- More than 1800 MX Logic channel partners provide a strong Security SaaS partner ecosystem to cross sell McAfee Security SaaS solutions and develop co-branded and bundled offerings.
Our vision is to lead the Security-as-a-Service market by offering cloud-based industry leading technologies with a robust partner ecosystem. We are committed to being the vendor of choice in Security SaaS and MX Logic is a key component in delivering on our commitment. The breadth of our portfolio will allow our customers to stay ahead of cyber crime while saving them time and money.
Stay tuned for more details on this acquisition after the transaction closes. In the meantime, please check out our website for additional information.
Cheers,
Marc
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