McAfee Email Security Appliance

McAfee Email Security Appliance Overview:

Spammers are more cunning and more persistent these days. Step up security on your messaging systems with McAfee Email Security Appliance (formerly McAfee Secure Messaging Gateway). A single security appliance filters spam and inappropriate content, phishing, worms, and viruses.

Description:

One of your most important business tools—email—is also the conduit for spam and other dangerous threats. The statistics are staggering. In 2007, spam volume was up 127 percent.

Protect your email systems from attack with McAfee Email Security Appliance—our high-performance appliance that provides highly accurate protection for large enterprises.

Block more than 98 percent of spam and phishing attacks with almost zero false positives. Go beyond just blocking spam with the built-in quarantine and advanced spam management tools. Our content filtering technology protects incoming and outgoing messages helping to easily implement regulatory and governance policies. We also protect the content of attachments using our true file type technology that supports over 300 different document formats.

For IT administrators who want a reliable and easy-to-manage solution, it doesn’t get much simpler. The McAfee Email Security Appliance is a complete self-contained solution—from the hardened operating system to the built-in spam quarantine.

Protect company assets, maintain employee productivity, reduce corporate liability, and lower your costs with this virtually maintenance-free appliance. Choose from a wide range of different models to protect your email communications—at an affordable flat price with no additional user fees.

Benefits and Features:

Solutions:

Email Security and Inspection

More than spam blocking
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance is the industry’s most effective spam filter,1 but it does so much more than that. It also protects your email with advanced anti-virus and malware protection, enforces usage policy, provides compliance tools, protects against zero-day threats, and offers comprehensive reporting and monitoring. And, it does it all in a single, integrated appliance.

Comprehensive and proactive malware protection
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance uses the award-winning McAfee scanning engine to detect, clean, and protect your email from viruses, worms, rootkits, Trojans, and other threats. The McAfee anti-malware engine delivers comprehensive find-and-fix solutions and the automated updates ensure your appliance always has the latest virus signature files and countermeasures in place.

What about malware that is so new no signature yet exists? Not a problem. McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance significantly reduces your exposure to emerging threats with real-time malware protection. Using cloud-based threat intelligence, McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance sends a fingerprint of any suspicious file for instant lookup at McAfee Labs. If the fingerprint is identified, a response is sent back to the appliance in milliseconds to block or quarantine a malicious file even before a signature file has been distributed.

Reputational analysis
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance also leverages the reputational analysis from McAfee TrustedSource™, which applies intelligence from email sensors in more than one hundred countries and thousands of gateway security devices around the globe. McAfee TrustedSource identifies spam and other malicious email faster and more accurately by dropping connections from known spam and malware sources.

Advanced content filtering
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance scans both inbound and outbound email and attachments. The content rule wizards and built-in dictionaries make creating content-based policies quick, easy, and painless. The regular expression tool, customizable dictionaries, threshold counters, and whitelists enable you to create and enforce the policies you need to manage and protect both regulated data and sensitive company information.

Email Security—without compromise
With McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance you no longer have to choose between effective spam blocking or low false-positive rates; you get them both. With its extremely low rate of false positives, McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance keeps the spam out while delivering legitimate email accurately.

Web Filtering and Security

Integrated URL filtering
The integrated URL filtering enables your organization to understand, filter, control, and monitor Internet usage. With group-based policies and more than 90 web categories, the filtering capabilities can apply policies to users and groups based on their specific requirements. This provides you with the flexibility and controls you need to keep users safe and productive while on the web. The URL filtering is simple to configure and is included as a standard feature with McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance.

Safe surfing with McAfee SiteAdvisor
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance also includes McAfee SiteAdvisor® web reputation technology. McAfee SiteAdvisor is an awardwinning technology that rates website reputations based on in-depth content inspection and site testing and advises your employees about risky websites before they visit them. Combining McAfee SiteAdvisor with URL filtering, McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance effectively warns or prevents users from opening malicious sites that host spyware, phishing scams, spamming agents, exploits, or inappropriate web content.

Virus and malware protection
Leveraging the same anti-malware engine used for scanning email, McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance protects users from downloading dangerous files, whether through email or from malicious websites.

Scalability and Management

Integrated load balancing
With McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance, you can increase capacity as your needs grow. The built-in clustering and load-balancing capabilities provide scalability options that allow you to easily add appliances into a centrally managed cluster. The load-balanced clusters provide consolidated reporting and updating to reduce your administration requirements and improve availability.

Integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
Integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) software provides centralized policy management and graphical reporting. McAfee ePO software is the first and only security management platform to centrally manage systems, networks, data, and compliance solutions across any size organization. With ePO, you can manage your McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance along with the rest of your McAfee security, including other McAfee products securing your network, data, and endpoints.

System Requirements:

Virtual Appliances

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance can be used in a virtual environment with:

• VMware Server 1.0.6 or later
• VMware ESX 3.5 or later

Recommended minimum hardware:

• One dual-core x86/x64 processor
• 2 GB RAM
• 80 GB free storage

Documentation:

Download the McAfee Email Security Appliance Datasheet (PDF).