McAfee Active Virus Defense

McAfee Active Virus Defense Overview:

McAfee® Active Virus Defense protects you against today’s constantly evolving security threats. It covers desktop, Internet gateway, e-mail servers, and file servers with proven anti-virus protection. It also supports centralized policy management and reporting through McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator®.

Description:

McAfee Active Virus Defense is a suite of products that protects your desktops, Internet gateways, e-mail servers, and file servers from all types of viruses.

Used in conjunction with McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator®, Active Virus Defense provides you with single-console management and reporting. McAfee® VirusScan Enterprise protects your desktops and file servers. McAfee® WebShield keeps viruses out of your Internet gateway. McAfee® GroupShield covers your mail servers. And, McAfee® NetShield protects your Netware file servers.

Our proven anti-virus technology blends heuristics and generic information to identify both known and unknown viruses. Updates are critical to effective virus protection and Active Virus Defense automatically downloads the latest virus-pattern data for continuous, up-to-date protection.

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McAfee Enterprise Security Suite Solutions:

Proactive enterprise threat protection

Today’s businesses deal with a wide array of security issues that continually become more complex. Multi-vectored attacks, blended and malicious threats like viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, phishing attacks, and even spam have changed the way IT and security managers protect their company’s computing infrastructure and assets. Managing disparate, multi-vendor security products across diverse environments (e.g., LANs, remote/mobile workers, and partner extranets) and keeping up with patches for vulnerable systems are time consuming and difficult. Businesses require an in-depth, manageable security solution that provides protection against varying security threats and disruptions to business productivity.

Solutions Designed for the Corporation
McAfee® has designed four security solution suites specifically for the enterprise, each managed by McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) to enable scalable system security management. McAfee Enterprise Security Suite Solutions offer virus protection at the desktop, server, and Internet gateway network levels, plus dedicated anti-spam for mail servers and desktop firewall protection. Whether your security needs are isolated to the desktops and file servers or you need additional coverage that adds e-mail protection, McAfee has the easy-to-manage security solution suite to meet your corporation’s protection requirements.

Centralized Management and Protection Compliance
McAfee ePO is the industry-leading system security management solution, delivering a coordinated, proactive defense against malicious threats and attacks for the enterprise. ePO is designed with enterprise scalability in mind. ePO delivers integrated alerting and notification on compliance, threat activity, and rogue systems. Policies covering every layer of malicious threat protection—from updating frequency, to fi le types to be scanned, to heuristic scanning settings—can be centrally set per machine or per group and are entirely customizable by the administrator. All are automatically enforced to ensure rock-solid protection. ePO’s integrated notification services and graphical reporting provide the 24/7 visibility required to effectively monitor system security, evaluate your policy’s status, and find your network’s weak points. As the central hub of McAfee Enterprise Security Suite Solutions, your administrators can mitigate the risk of rogue, noncompliant systems, keep protection up to date, configure and enforce protection policies, and monitor security status, 24/7, from one centralized, enterprise-scalable console. ePO gives you visibility into the condition of the virus protection on your network.

Next-Generation Anti-Virus for Microsoft Windows® Desktop, Laptop, and Server Protection
McAfee VirusScan® Enterprise provides comprehensive and proactive malware protection for your organization’s desktops, laptops, and servers. Powerful, flexible, and bandwidth friendly, VirusScan Enterprise delivers proactive protection the way it’s needed in today’s fast-moving, highly adaptive businesses. VirusScan Enterprise takes antivirus protection to the next level, integrating elements of intrusion prevention and firewall technology into a single solution for PCs and file servers (desktops and laptops) and servers. This powerful combination delivers truly proactive protection from the newest of today’s threats—including buffer-overflow exploits and blended attacks—and features advanced outbreak management capabilities to reduce the damage and lower the total costs of outbreaks. Everything is managed by ePO for scalable security policy compliance and graphical reporting.

Netware FileServer Protection
McAfee NetShield® for NetWare protects your NetWare file servers through real-time scanning to detect and clean viruses and other threats. By caching file status when an initial scan is performed, McAfee NetShield for NetWare ensures that clean files are not rescanned unless and until they are modified, significantly improving performance and efficiency.

Secure Content Management
The Internet gateway is not the only entry point for a virus— collaborative environments such as mail servers are also at risk. McAfee GroupShield® for Mail Servers specifically protects this layer of the network, with anti-virus and content filtering support for Lotus Domino and Microsoft® Exchange servers. Outbreak Manager and McAfee’s award winning anti-virus filtering engine look for suspicious email behavior patterns, patterns that could be indicative of new virus outbreaks. Content filtering allows all inbound and outbound e-mails and files to be filtered for inappropriate content. And because GroupShield provides full policy and remote manageability, it is well suited for even the largest and most distributed enterprise environments.

Internet Gateway Protection
McAfee WebShield® SMTP keeps viruses out of your network, stopping them before the threats enter at the Internet gateway. With integrated content filtering of messages to prevent offensive or inappropriate content from reaching your users, WebShield SMTP keeps both inbound and outbound SMTP traffic clean and virus-free. WebShield SMTP is able to filter e-mail for inappropriate content by scanning the subject line and message body, as well as any attached file’s name, type, or size. And by using McAfee’s Outbreak Manager technology, WebShield SMTP can identify and stop outbreaks even when the virus instigating is new and unknown.

Content Security for All Documents
McAfee PortalShield™ for Microsoft SharePoint Servers provides content security for all your organization’s documents, files, Web content, and document stores. PortalShield allows your users to securely access, find, and share information needed to be productive in business. PortalShield detects, cleans, and removes viruses, and searches for banned content within documents that are stored in SharePoint workspaces, a capability not available with traditional anti-virus or content security solutions.

Increased Productivity
McAfee SpamKiller® for Mail Servers helps you filter and detect spam at your e-mail server, helping to increase business productivity, minimizing the risk of legal liability that is associated with inappropriate material as well as halting potential security threats contained within spam e-mail. McAfee SpamKiller for Mail Servers provides unparalleled protection, giving your company up to 95 percent spam detection rate right out of the box. And by protecting Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino, McAfee provides comprehensive protection.

Lock Out Hackers and Unauthorized Programs
McAfee Desktop Firewall™ provides proactive defense and control of PCs in both small and medium-size business and large enterprise environments. Desktop Firewall prevents blended threats from spreading and protects your organization’s wireless, remote, and broadband users from attacks. With Desktop Firewall, your business can prevent unsecured PCs from connecting to the network until their systems are updated. It enforces a common operating environment (COE) without the need to remove administrator rights by controlling or preventing any unauthorized software applications (programs) from being installed on the PC.

McAfee Comprehensive Virus Protection Solutions

Active Mail Protection

McAfee Active Mail Protection provides a multi-layered defense against mail-borne threats, with Secure Content Management—anti-virus protection, spam blocking, phish filtering, and content filtering—functionality wrapped into an integrated suite solution for e-mail servers. Protecting your company’s Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino e-mail servers, this comprehensive set of tools is tightly integrated under ePO, for powerful, scalable security policy management and detailed graphical reporting. These tools help to reduce your organization’s network downtime, increase productivity, and ensure compliance with internal and regulatory security policies.

Active VirusScan

McAfee Active VirusScan provides anti-virus protection for your company’s desktops and servers with VirusScan Enterprise and NetShield for NetWare, as well as the centralized policy management and reporting facilities of ePO. Utilizing award-winning McAfee anti-virus technology, Active VirusScan delivers client-level On-Access scanning of e-mail, FTP access, and Web connections, resulting in comprehensive anti-virus coverage in a single, integrated solution.

Active Virus Defense

McAfee Active Virus Defense is a suite of tightly integrated McAfee security solutions designed to keep your business free from new threats, viruses, and malicious code. Active Virus Defense serves as your dedicated anti-virus department by defending all tiers of your network with VirusScan Enterprise, WebShield SMTP, GroupShield for Mail Servers, and NetShield for NetWare, as well as your security policy management with ePO. Active Virus Defense—the most comprehensive business virus security solution—prevents outbreaks, promotes productivity, and protects your anti-virus budget.

Active Threat Protection

McAfee Active Threat Protection provides the most comprehensive suite of security solutions available, offering protection at the desktop, file server, e-mail server, and Internet gateway network levels, plus dedicated anti-spam and desktop firewall protection. Seamlessly integrated and managed by ePO, this multi-tiered solution protects your organization against a vast array of threats that capitalize on multiple entry points, platforms, and methods of propagation.

McAfee makes managing your corporation’s system protection easier, less time-consuming, and more cost effective for your business. McAfee Active Threat Protection combines the best-of-breed of security solutions to take the guesswork and worry out of keeping your systems and users updated, properly configured, and managed.

Documentation:

Download the McAfee Enterprise Security Suite Solutions Datasheet (PDF).