Adobe partners with McAfee on security while offering software to schools

by Steve Ragan - Sep 28 2009, 17:45

On Monday, McAfee and Adobe announced that they will work together to develop a product that combines both DRM and DLP, that will allow enterprise customers to protect intellectual property and ensure access control.

In a joint statement, the two companies said that this combined offering will take McAfee’s policy-based data classification tools and Adobe’s document protection abilities, and place them in a single offering that will restrict access to documents based on how they are classified by the organization.

This classification will then enable organizations to protect information such as intellectual property and regulatory compliance data to reduce information loss and avoid the costs associated with it.

In addition, a free diagnostic tool, McAfee Security Scan, is also available as an optional download to anyone installing Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player. The tool will scan the system, checking for anti-virus software and firewall protection. Once complete, the scan offers a report detailing the presence and status of security protection, and if warranted, will serve up special offers for McAfee security software.

Both McAfee and Adobe will be on hand during McAfee’s FOCUS 09 conference October 6-9 to talk about the joint offering.

Also announced on Monday was a new software bundle from Adobe aimed at schools.

Adobe said that the new Digital School Collection for K-12 students and educators will include Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements 8 for Windows, as well as Adobe Contribute CS4, Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and Adobe Soundbooth CS4.

Teachers will get a Resource DVD with K-12 lesson plans, creative ideas, and quick tutorials to easily implement projects, to help use Adobe in the classroom, the statement added.

Moreover, Adobe is offering Netbook compatibility support for Photoshop Elements 8 (Windows) and Adobe Photoshop Elements for the Mac platform. The Adobe Digital School Collection will be available on Oct. 1, 2009 via volume licensing for US$149.

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