McAfee announced a new online tool to help companies achieve stronger protection and greater compliance while lowering costs. The new tool helps both mid-sized and enterprise businesses address the continual challenge of calculating return on security investments. The McAfee ROI (return on investment) calculator, developed with Forrester Research Inc., helps organizations quantify the financial benefits of deploying McAfee solutions for endpoint security, email and Web Security, and network security.

The calculator uses Forrester's industry proven Total Economic Impact (TEI) methodology to estimate the total expected cash flow and return of using McAfee. Working with industry averages, the calculator can be customized to any size customer.  The costs are based on auditable data such as full-time employee costs and not soft costs, cost of downtime, usually associated with these types of studies. On average, an enterprise with approximately 5,500 systems could see more than $1.3 million in annual operational cost savings. Similarly, a medium sized business of approximately 500 systems could save more than $500,000. The calculator bases its results on the operational efficiencies gained by having a single console, the potential decreases in license costs and the impact of being able to identify and respond more quickly and effectively to security incidents.

The McAfee ROI calculator is easy to use and fully customizable. At a glance results can illustrate expected ROI and cost savings in less than 30 seconds and the calculator can be tailored to match an organization's specific requirements. The McAfee ROI calculator is available now and is free to download at http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/tools/ad/roi/.

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