Speaking at Focus11 in Las Vegas, Intel business clients solutions and enabling director, Lisa Watts, said that the creation of the program was influenced by changing trends in the threat landscape.

"There are three trends that have emerged," she said. "The first is malware. According to McAfee statistics, it is seeing 66,000 pieces of new malware every day, up from 22,000 per day in 2010."

Connectivity across devices and the security threat that this poses, such as interception of data from unsecured smartphones, along with keeping data stored in a public Cloud environment safe were the other two trends.

The first area of collaboration was the launch this week of a remote management endpoint security offering called ePolicy Orchestrator platform (ePO) Deep Command. ePO is used .

According to McAfee endpoint security senior vice-president, Candice Horley, who joined Watts on stage, administrators could enable remote access, regardless of whether a PC is turned on, by using ePO Deep Command.