Abstract

McAfee, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the effectiveness of its McAfee Total Protection Service — Advanced, a Security as a Service (SaaS) offering that provides comprehensive security to protect against viruses, spyware, hackers and other threats.

Tolly Group engineers conducted a detailed hands-on evaluation of the McAfee service offering and compared it against the Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 11.0 and Trend Micro Client Server Messaging Security for SMB Ver 7.6, traditional software products that require on-site resources for deployment, and support. Engineers closely examined initial deployment, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), management and usability factors of McAfee Total Protection and the two other products. Tests were conducted in December 2007.