SIA Partner Program Overview

SIA Partner Program Overview

The McAfee Security Innovation Alliance is a technology partnering program created to help accelerate the development of interoperable security products and to simplify the integration of these products within complex customer environments. Working together, McAfee and its partners deliver solutions more comprehensive than those available from any single vendor.

If you are a security or compliance solutions vendor, you too can integrate with McAfee’s industry-leading open architecture and reach over 35,000 organizations that have already invested in McAfee’s Security and Risk (SRM) management solutions. Participation in the Security Innovation Alliance allows you to extend your reach and create new revenue opportunities by adding complementary capabilities not found in McAfee's core offerings. The program also offers joint marketing, lead generation, and channel synergies that help create a win-win scenario for you, our customers, our channel partners, and McAfee.

Today’s sophisticated attacks can cause business disruptions, damage brand reputation, and create legal liabilities. Large organizations deploy solutions from multiple vendors because the truth is that no single vendor can meet all of their security and compliance needs. But today’s security threats and economic challenges demand that products from multiple vendors interoperate to provide better protection, reduce operational costs, and streamline the compliance lifecycle.

Partner Integration Tracks:

McAfee Security Innovation Alliance partners choose one of the following two integration tracks.

• Most SIA partners use a software development kit (SDK) to integrate with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™), McAfee's centralized security and compliance management platform used by 35,000 customers and managing 60 million endpoints. McAfee provides helpdesk support to the partner's development effort and then performs compatibility testing.
• Data Protection (DP) SIA partners enhance McAfee's DP encryption portfolio with their own technologies, enabled via interoperability. Areas of focus include authentication (smart cards, USB security tokens), smart card reader, and/or encryption (encrypting hard disk drive) solutions. Integrations are performed by McAfee and are driven by demand for the joint solution.

Partner Participation Levels

McAfee Security Innovation Alliance provides benefits that accumulate as you strengthen your commitment to the partnership.

• Associate Partners receive access to McAfee engineering resources to make their products compatible with McAfee solutions, and are eligible for several joint marketing opportunities even before completing their integration.
• Technology Partners actively market their McAfee Compatible solution. They get all Associate Partner benefits, plus use of the "McAfee Compatible" logo, and participation in additional marketing, customer, and channel events.
• Sales Teaming Partners: Selected Technology Partners are invited to become Sales Teaming Partners and collaborate with McAfee sales teams to drive more complete security solutions to large organizations.

Take the Next Step

Learn more about SIA program benefits and program requirements or browse the SIA Partner Directory, our catalog of partner offerings that interoperate with and complement McAfee security solutions.