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Alcatel-Lucent collaborates with McAfee, Inc. to deliver the industry’s most secure and compliant endpoint protection solution for a mobile workforce


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Paris and Santa Clara, CA — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced a joint solution with McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) that integrates the Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian (NLG) with McAfeeÒ Endpoint Encryption software, delivering a powerful mobile security solution for lost and stolen laptops. Alcatel-Lucent has joined the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance™ to enable smart card pre-boot authentication and “remote kill” capabilities for laptops, thereby assuring data protection and compliance.

The Alcatel-Lucent and McAfee solution, available today, offers extensive auditing and reporting capabilities to meet industry and government compliance requirements. Alcatel-Lucent’s OmniAccess 3500 NLG has the ability to integrate with encryption vendors like McAfee, enhancing the existing solution by enabling enterprises to oversee the security on their mobile laptops and the data they contain 24x7, regardless of the power state of the laptop. The Nonstop Laptop Guardian leverages 3G wireless networks - CDMA, HSPA - allowing enterprises to manage and secure mobile laptops to the same degree as desktop computers are managed and secured today. IT staff can deliver patches or software updates, track location and secure and control data to a laptop at anytime, even when the laptop is turned off. The Nonstop Laptop Guardian solution provides enterprises with improved visibility, reduced risk and increased policy compliance.

“With tens of thousands of laptops lost or stolen each year, it is important that customers have the most advanced solution available to protect their data,” said Tom Burns,head of Alcatel-Lucent enterprise activities. “The combination of the Alcatel-Lucent always on OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian, along with McAfee Endpoint Encryption software, will allow enterprise IT managers to protect lost and stolen laptops because of its strong encryption with remote capabilities and GPS location for laptop recovery.”

The McAfee Endpoint Encryption software (formerly SafeBoot Encryption) uses powerful encryption and access control to prevent unauthorized access to data. A key feature of the Endpoint Encryption is its full-disk encryption, which ensures that information remains secure on mobile devices. This solution offers a number of additional features, including file and folder encryption, synchronized password changes and centralized management. Endpoint Encryption also includes reporting and auditing capabilities to meet industry and government compliance requirements, helping to reduce the risks associated with a highly mobile workforce. This solution can seamlessly integrate with the existing infrastructure allowing a user-friendly solution for customer security.

“The OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian provides a new dimension to enhancing the user authentication of McAfee Data Protection products,” said Frank Jorissen, Vice President international business development with McAfee’s Data Protection Business Unit. “While McAfee already supports the widest range and variety of authentication devices available on the market, this card has truly unique features. The NLG behaves as a remotely controlled ‘ignition key’ for laptops. When lost or stolen, a remote administrator can wipe critical user keys and force the laptop to reboot to the pre-boot logon screen, keeping all data totally beyond compromise.”

About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. It delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to browse and shop the Web securely. With its unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation, McAfee empowers home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to comply with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities and continuously monitor and improve their security. external linkhttp://www.mcafee.com

The McAfee Security Innovation Alliance accelerates the development of interoperable security products and simplifies the integration of those products with complex customer environments. This program is the foundation of a technology ecosystem designed to assemble the world’s leading security innovations. While other infrastructure categories can standardize on individual vendors, the dynamic nature of the security market calls for a combination of market leaders and innovative solutions. Working together, McAfee and its partners deliver solutions more comprehensive than those available from any single vendor.

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About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com



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