McAfee has introduced the McAfee Cloud Secure Program, a new vulnerability assessment service for cloud service providers.

"[The] daily scanning service is directed from the Internet into the cloud service provider to probe for any weaknesses in the network infrastructure, perimeter and applications, says Marc Olesen, senior vice president and general manager for McAfee's software-as-a-service business unit," writes Network World's Ellen Messmer.

"Cloud providers are entitled to post the McAfee Cloud Secure mark when they've successfully completed daily vulnerability-assessment scans," Messmer writes. "The program is modeled to some extent after the McAfee Secure Trustmark program for e-commerce Web sites that undergo security scans."

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