McAfee Content Security Blade Server

McAfee Content Security Blade Server Overview:

Protect your networks from malware, spam, and other undesirable content with our high-performance solution—McAfee Content Security Blade Server. With blended email and web threats on the rise, keeping your networks safe is a priority. Based on highly efficient blade server architecture, our solution lowers IT costs, reduces complexity, and provides an extensible platform to address future threats.

Description:

Email- and web-borne threats, such as spam, spyware, phishing, viruses, worms, Trojans, and more endanger the security of your network, the productivity of your workforce, and the profitability of your company. The situation is only getting worse by the day.

If you’re like most companies, you’ve deployed an ever-increasing amount of security equipment to counter each new threat. Over time this equipment stacks up, management becomes an IT nightmare, the solution’s complexity spirals upward, and power, cooling and space requirements go through the roof. You’re left with more appliances, more vendors, more management consoles, unmanageable complexity and higher costs!

McAfee has a simple, high-performance, and cost-effective solution for large enterprises—McAfee Content Security Blade Server. Leveraging the power, efficiency, and scalability of a blade server architecture, McAfee Content Security Blade Server can deliver hundreds of thousands of dollars of annual savings in licensing fees and operational costs—with one platform and a single management console.

With Content Security Blade Server, up to 5,000,000 email messages per hour can be filtered, and 50,000 simultaneous web users can be protected with a single unit. Meeting your performance needs with less equipment means simple, more efficient, and more cost-effective security.

As your requirements evolve, you can turn on functionality you when you need it. Start with email security, anti-spam, malware removal, and email content filtering. Then add safe surfing and URL filtering. When you’re ready, all applications can be deployed on one blade system or distributed across several. This means fewer vendors to manage, nothing new to purchase as you grow, and reduced security focused IT workload.

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Benefits and Features:

Content Security Blade Server - Email:

Key Features:

Proven anti-spam technology:

• Detect and block more than 98 percent of spam, including the latest image, PDF, and MP3 spam attacks, with no critical false positives (as measured by third-party tests)
• Streaming updates every two to three minutes quickly shut down new forms of spam
• Anti-spam effectiveness is achieved through a combination of technologies including:
  • IP reputation filtering
  • Domain-name reputation scoring
  • Heuristic detection
  • Content filtering
  • Sender authentication based on the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) standards
  • Greylisting, which tracks and allows mail from known legitimate senders to pass while temporarily rejecting unknown senders

Email privacy regulatory compliance:

• Use predefined dictionaries (English only) and heuristics to automatically scan email for financial and private information as defined by:
  • HIPAA
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
  • SOX, EuroSOX, JSOX
  • Basel ll
  • Australian Government Information and Communications Technology Security (ACS133)
  • Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations
• Block, monitor, or encrypt messages to ensure compliance based on policy
• Scan more than 300 different true file types

Email Threat Protection

McAfee Content Security Blade Server uses McAfee’s award-winning anti-spam technologies to detect and block spam, phishing, and zero-day attacks. Tests by independent test labs demonstrate that McAfee consistently blocks over 98 percent of spam, including hard-to-detect image spam, thanks to its powerful combination of detection technologies and streaming updates.

• Detect and clean viruses and other malware threats—block both known and unknown viruses and spyware before they can enter the network or can affect endpoints
   
• Use true file types to scan every attachment to keep your users safe
   
• Protect your entire messaging infrastructure against directory harvest and other forms of attacks
   
• Reduce the window of vulnerability for new malware from hours or days down to minutes

Security Policies that Fit
Configure Active Directory or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)-based security policies to meet the needs of different groups in your organization.

Powerful Email Quarantine
McAfee Quarantine Manager provides easy, centralized management of spam and other forms of quarantined email. Users receive daily summaries of quarantined messages, and users can release messages as needed. With a Microsoft Outlook plug-in, users configure their own block and allow lists.

Advanced Content Filtering
Control sensitive data in order to comply with email privacy regulations and corporate governance demands. Administrators can:

• Build custom content filtering policies or utilize the built-in lexicons for email privacy regulations, objectionable content, and intellectual property
• Scan keywords and regular expressions inside messages and attachment
• Set up filters based on file type or message size  

Easy to Manage
Management is simple and flexible. Regardless of how many scanning blades you have installed, they are all managed as if you deployed only one device. A single web-based management console allows you to:

• Easily make changes to security policies and system configuration
   
• View consolidated summaries of events and system health
   
• Monitor system effectiveness and run ad-hoc or scheduled reports
   
• Effectively plan capacity based on comprehensive utilization metrics
   
• Update the system with virus definitions (DATs), engines, patches

Reliability
McAfee Content Security Blade Server delivers the high reliability and availability that you need:

• Redundant fans, power supplies, and management blades plus automatic failover with no downtime
   
• The system automatically responds to fluctuating traffic demands and system status
   
• All parts are hot-swappable
   
• RAID-1 configuration of all hard disks protect configuration and message queue data
   
• Increase capacity in minutes by simply adding additional scanning blades with no downtime

Content Security Blade Server - Web:

Key Features:

URL filtering:

• Block web pages unrelated to your business
• Preserve bandwidth
• Reduce business risk and legal liability
• Improve employee productivity

Advanced anti-spyware technology:

• Identify and block threats before they enter your network through the web
• Block spyware, adware, dialers, keyloggers, and backdoors

Broad virus protection:

• Defend against both known and unknown viruses
• Protect web traffic using HTTP, FTP, and ICAP protocols

Highest throughput, scalability, and reliability:

• Support up to 50,000 simultaneous users
• Filter web traffic at rates up to 1 GB per second
• Built-in workload balancing requires no configuration and make multiple scanning blades operate as if they were a single unit
• Increase capacity as needed with no downtime with hot-swappable blades
• Simplify node address management in very large environments with support for IPv6
• Ensure redundant power supplies and automatic failover

Comprehensive management:

• Use the built-in browser-based system for management tasks (runs without Java)
• Generate detailed reports to further enhance control and manageability
• Delegate responsibilities to various people within your organization according to their job roles

Web Threat Protection

McAfee Content Security Blade Server leverages award-winning McAfee anti-spyware technology to quickly detect, proactively block, and safely eliminate potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) before they enter your network. Independent tests demonstrate that McAfee blocks PUPs more effectively than any other product on the market.

• Detect and clean viruses and other malware threats—blocking both known and unknown viruses
   
• Reduce your window of vulnerability for new malware from hours or days down to minutes—and protect your organization against zero-day attacks

Web Access Control
With McAfee’s award-winning URL filtering add-on, McAfee Content Security Blade Server blocks web pages that are unrelated to your business, preserving bandwidth, reducing business risk and legal liability, and improving employee productivity. Built-in McAfee SiteAdvisor® guards against theft of sensitive personal information and other confidential company information. It monitors, warns, and proactively stops users from visiting web sites that harbor spyware, phishing scams, and spamming agents.

Comprehensive, Easy-to-Use Management
Management is simple and flexible. Regardless of how many blades you have installed, they are all managed as a single device. The web-based management console runs without Java and allows you to:

• Easily make changes to security policies and system configuration
   
• Monitor system effectiveness and run scheduled or ad hoc reports
   
• View consolidated summaries of events and system health
   
• Effectively plan capacity based on comprehensive utilization metrics
   
• Update the system with virus definitions ((DATs), engines, patches, and more

In addition, you are able to increase security and management control by delegating separate administration functions to different people within your organization. Create custom administrative roles or use one of the four pre-defined roles provided out of the box:

• Super-admin
• Web-only admin
• Email-only admin
• Report admin

Reliability and Scalability
McAfee Content Security Blade Server delivers the high reliability and availability that you need:

• Redundant fans, power supplies, and management blades plus automatic failover with no downtime
   
• The system automatically responds to fluctuating traffic demands and system status
   
• All parts are hot-swappable
   
• RAID-1 configuration of all hard disks protects configuration data
   
• Increase scanning capacity in just minutes by simply adding additional scanning blades which are automatically brought online with no disruption to service
   
• Take advantage of support for IPv6 to more easily manage node addresses in very large environments and avoid the need to create complex network segmentation schemes

Unmatched Extensibility
McAfee Content Security Blade Server is the first fully extensible content security platform designed for the large enterprise. Turn on what you need, when you need it:

• Web security
• Safe surfing
• URL filtering
• Email security
• Anti-spam
• Email content filtering
• Regulatory compliance

Start with one application, and then add more as you need them. All the applications above can be deployed in one blade system. As a result, you have fewer vendors to manage, nothing new to purchase, and decreased IT staff workload.

System Specifications:

Documentation:

Download the McAfee Content Security Blade Server - Email Datasheet (PDF).

Download the McAfee Content Security Blade Server - Web Datasheet (PDF).