Macnica Networks and Asgent to announced the start of collaboration for sales, operations and monitoring of the 'McAfee NGFW' product. Macnica Networks, the domestic distributor for 'McAfee NGFW” products, provides end users with the product itself as well as deployment and technical support backed by specialist knowledge. Asgent will in turn add the 'McAfee NGFW' to the device lineup for the 'SecurityPlus Managed Security Service' and will provide monitoring services.

Also, specialized security analysts in the Security Operation Center (SOC) will monitor and correlatively analyze the various logs produced by the McAfee NGFW continuously on a 24/7 basis, and will notify the end user in case a security incident is judged as having a high possibility of being an attack or intrusion. Through this collaboration McAfee NGFW users will be able to receive total support including support for deployment, operations and monitoring, as well as gaining the knowledge of security specialists along with 24/7 operations monitoring without the need to host their own SOC, while still gaining the best performance from the detection capabilities of the McAfee NGFW.Both companies will continue to expand sales of both McAfee products and Managed Security Services to meet the demands of customers faced with ever more advanced cyber-attacks.