McAfee and Wipro Technologies have announced a global alliance to offer services for endpoint and network security.

Wipro will be a global reseller of McAfee products and is also a managed security services partner. A key joint offering is the managed endpoint security services based on McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint, which enables organisations to adopt a more holistic and effective approach to protecting their endpoints, and reduces total cost of ownership by up to 40 per cent, say the companies.

Paul Rolfe, vice president for worldwide system integrators and technology alliances at McAfee, said that the combination of Wipro's global delivery model with McAfee Total Protection would provide their customers the ability to accelerate their deployments through an integrated security environment.

The partnership has established a McAfee center of excellence (CoE) at Wipro's Bangalore campus to train over 300 consultants per year across the McAfee product portfolio. The CoE produces reusable assets and process frameworks that support the joint offerings and further enhance the project results and ensure quicker time to market for customers.

Prasenjit Saha, VP  and global head of Enterprise Security Solutions at Wipro, said, "We are excited to be partnering with McAfee to meet the growing security needs of our customers," He added, "Our ability to drive solutions through a consulting services approach with specialist expertise across multiple McAfee security products and the capability of offering overall management of these solutions provides our customers with a winning combination of end-to-end security services." X

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