McAfee, part of Intel Security Group and a leading provider of comprehensive security solutions to the U.S. federal government, have announced that McAfee’s Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution, including McAfee Enterprise Security Manager and supporting products, has been named to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL). McAfee’s is the first and only SIEM to be added to the UC APL, which also includes additional McAfee products.

Many organizations are seeing that some degree of contamination creeps into the rights structure of their file system, possibly because of technical contamination resulting from changes in the server on which the system runs (switching from Novell to NT4 then to Windows 2003 and on to Windows 2008, etc.), or it could also be the result of changes in the organization when IT services are centralized or departments merge.