Regulation, like taxes, is an unavoidable fact of life. Thankfully, when it comes to security compliance, you can see a real return on your investment (ROI). Here at McAfee®, we help companies every day with security solutions that enable them to cut costs while securing their information.

While some security vendors focus on the savings associated with “risk avoidance” (what you pay for their solutions versus what it could have cost your company if you had a major security breach), we like to concentrate on the cut and dry operational savings you gain with our products.

After all, allowing companies to reduce the time and personnel they currently dedicate to security is a clear and quantifiable ROI. If you have four or five endpoint solutions, for example, each with their own console to manage, it’s easy to see the operational savings that you would achieve from installing a suite of McAfee products with one management console.

Of course, different companies face different compliance issues and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. That’s why we work with each customer on an individual basis to help them fulfill their compliance needs with an eye on ROI. This can be done through consolidation of security products, easier management tools and intelligent systems that fulfill a number of security functions.

A key product for helping companies with their compliance needs is McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® 4.0. ePolicy Orchestrator offers centralized management of your data and security systems. This solution not only makes it easier to manage your security investments, it is cost effective—and we mean that. To prove how cost effective the ePolicy Orchestrator is, we have released the new Forrester Total Economic Impact Calculator for McAfee Total Protection Solutions, created with the help of Forrester Research.

The ROI calculator estimates the financial impact of using the ePolicy Orchestrator at your organization, allowing you to walk away knowing the quantifiable benefits of investing in this product. It takes into account the cost and benefits of your IT investment, future options created by the investment (flexibility) and the risk of a security breach.

Forget about the “what ifs”—we use your real world numbers to calculate real world benefits. All you need to know is your organization’s annual revenue and gross profit margin, and the calculator will determine your operational ROI.

And because avoiding security breaches is critical for most businesses, the calculator also allows you to determine applied benefits. By using a slider bar, you can indicate how big an impact a security incident would have on your ability to generate profit. (For ecommerce companies, this could be 100 percent!) Because the calculator gives customers both of these calculations, we believe it is an invaluable tool for generating real ROI on you security investments.

We realize that there are a lot of security products out there and most don’t come with an ROI calculator, but here at McAfee we thought it was important to shine the spotlight on where we are concentrating our efforts—helping customers meet compliance needs, secure their information and cut costs. This is the kind of business security we can get behind.