Using McAfee's countermeasure-aware risk management application, new threats and vulnerabilities are evaluated against the deployment of anti-virus, buffer overflow, and intrusion prevention solutions. Assets that have these countermeasures are at less risk and allow administrators to allocate remediation efforts toward areas of highest criticality. For example, when assessing a threat event, McAfee's technology allows IT administrators to identify and focus on only the vulnerable systems and not those that have acceptable levels of protection. This provides immediate insight, saves critical time, and dramatically improves security. When IT is empowered by this information, it can often mean the difference between worrying about 30 systems instead of 3,000.