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McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint - Advanced Simplifies Security Risk Management at Ellis Hospital

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Overview Ellis Hospital, based in Schenectady, New York, includes a 360-bed, full-service health care facility, a School of Nursing, a mental health clinic, the 40-bed Bellevue Women's Center, and three small patient centers for administering inoculations and drawing blood. Ellis Hospital needs to keep patient data and systems secure using minimal IT resources. Ellis Hospital chose the advanced version of McAfee Total Protection (ToPS) for Endpoint, a comprehensive, end-to-end security risk management solution that provides anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention, network access control (NAC), and policy auditing.

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Publisher	McAfee	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Security Management, Intrusion Detection Systems, Spyware

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