McAfee Total Protection aims to combine and manage all the elements of a system security solution through a single console and agent platform.

According to McAfee, with Total Protection, McAfee SecurityAlliance partners can help companies of all sizes to improve security, while reducing the complexity of managing security - without compromise, freeing up valuable financial and human resources for other vital corporate needs.

McAfee Total Protection is a single concept with four distinct offerings for customers of all sizes and needs.

For the first time, these customers can purchase a single solution with proven technology that is tightly integrated into a single console, the company says.

The end result is increased security, policy compliance and significant ongoing cost savings, McAfee adds.

McAfee Total Protection for enterprise users is designed to leverage a single agent platform already deployed in more than 40m endpoints to provide everything that a business needs for complete endpoint security and network access control, today and into the future.

The product includes anti-virus for all tiers of the network, anti-spyware, anti-spam, desktop firewall, host intrusion prevention and a complete network access control system - all designed to be managed by a single console.

McAfee Total Protection for small business aims to build upon McAfee's heritage of delivering security and software-as-a-service, ensuring an always on, always up-to-date, security environment. McAfee says that it now has more than two million customers protected under this model.

Many companies and industry analysts point to a growing need for a tightly integrated, single solution managed through one console.

Attacks on corporate networks, corporate PCs and consumers will continue to increase in sophistication, frequency and severity; defending against this onslaught requires a comprehensive and integrated security solution," says Chris Christiansen, IDC vice-president of Security Products and Services.

"These attacks will drive the demand for more proactive security products and services. As the complexity of managing security increases, customers are demanding more integrated solutions.

"IT security is increasingly moving away from a focus on a single type of protection, such as anti-virus, toward a focus on broad protection from a wide range of emerging threats to enterprise security."