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Block e-mail-borne attacks in their tracks

McAfee Email Security Service

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McAfee Email Security Service Overview:

With McAfee® Email Security Service™, you can quickly and accurately prevent spam, phishing scams, viruses, and other threats from entering your network. You can deploy the service without installing any hardware or software, and provide an important first defense for your messaging infrastructure.

Key Advantages:
Easy to deploy
No software or hardware to install, configure, or maintain. All email is filtered before it reaches your premises.

Strong protection
McAfee updates the service 24x7 with the latest technologies to block spam, phishing scams, viruses, and other threats.

 Lower infrastructure costs
About 80 percent of inbound email is spam, viruses, or some other attack. By blocking these messages before they reach your network, you reduce the demands on your message processing infrastructure.


Description:

McAfee Email Security Service is a hosted e-mail security solution. It quarantines incoming and outgoing message threats such as spam, viruses, phishing scams, directory-harvest, and denial-of-service attacks.

Email Security Service raises the level of your messaging security but requires no additional hardware, software, or IT staff. Your e-mail is re-directed through the McAfee servers where your mail traffic is scanned quickly before entering or leaving your network, with less than a one-second delay in transit. Centrally managed via its Web-based console, it helps you enforce corporate e-mail policies while safeguarding your users, customers, and business partners. E-mails trying to enter or leave are subject to real-time threat checking. Suspect messages are quarantined and prevented from passing through the perimeter.

Because McAfee regularly updates and upgrades its messaging security service, you save infrastructure cost and extend infrastructure life. With its support for encrypted Internet e-mail transmission, Email Security Service protects your e-mail message content from unauthorized examination.

The enterprise edition of Email Security Service support an unlimited number of domains and delivery IP address, while the small business edition supports five domains and one IP delivery address.

Low-cost, easy-to-manage email protection
A snap to deploy, McAfee Email Security Service prevents email threats from impacting your network and end users. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) is always on, always up-to-date, and requires no additional investment in hardware or software nor the time and resources to configure or maintain it. Because the service stops spam and email-based threats before they infiltrate your network, the load on your email servers is greatly reduced, saving you valuable bandwidth and server storage. Web-based administration simplifies management, frees up your valuable IT resources, and lowers your total cost of ownership.

Real-time email security won’t slow you down
Because McAfee Email Security Service processes email in real-time through a secure system architecture, there’s no detectable delay, so your email is delivered with maximum speed and security and your business stays efficient and on track. McAfee Email Security Service quarantines spam, inappropriate content, viruses, and other suspicious content before they get into your network. Email scanning is performed in memory real-time, so your email is delivered with maximum speed and security. McAfee Email Security Service is SAS 70 Type II certified and WebTrust validated for strict physical and operational security, assuring that your company’s email is safe and secure.

McAfee Email Security Service: A visual overview
McAfee Email Security Service: A visual overview

Benefits and Features:

Benefits:

  • Real time e-mail security
    Email Security Service filters inbound e-mails for spam, phishing scams, viruses, and other threats before messages enter the network; outbound e-mail is checked, too
  • Lower infrastructure costs
    About 80 percent of inbound e-mail is spam, viruses, or some other attack; reduce your message processing infrastructure by preventing these threats from ever breaching your perimeter
  • Longer infrastructure life
    With Email Security Service protecting your perimeter, you can extend the life of your existing infrastructure because it won’t be overloaded with ever-increasing volumes of email
  • Centralized management
    Use Email Security Service’s Web-based management portal to update e-mail policy from one console and manage it across your e-mail servers worldwide
  • Individual management and control
    Your users can access and manage their own quarantines, set their own spam sensitivities, and create their own whitelists and blacklists
  • Flexible policy enforcement
    You have flexible and granular e-mail security policy development and enforcement over inbound and outbound e-mails and attachments

Features:

  • Comprehensive e-mail filtering
    Secure Messaging Service filters inbound messages for spam, phishing scams, inappropriate content and viruses before they enter your network; it also quarantines suspicious messages before they can do damage
     
  • End-user quarantines
    Users can manage their own quarantines through daily quarantine summary e-mails; they just click “Deliver” in the e-mail, and it’s done
     
  • Central simple management
    You manage McAfee Secure Messaging System any time using your browser; our Web-based interface helps you configure policy, manage users, review quarantines, and display reports

System Requirements:

McAfee Email Security Service is a SaaS that resides outside your network, requiring no additional hardware, software, or personnel resources to manage daily security operations. All you need is your own email domain and email server, either in house or hosted by an Internet service provider. By simply redirecting the mail exchange (MX) record through the McAfee servers, your email will be transparently protected by the McAfee Email Security Service and delivered to your email server.

McAfee Email Security Service is a managed security service that resides outside your network. It manages daily security operations without the need for additional hardware, software, or personnel.

Mail domain requirements

  • You need your own mail domain, such as yourdomain.com, with a static IP address, and a dedicated mail server, either in house or hosted by an ISP.

Inbound and Outbound:

Email Security Service - Inbound and Outbound
Features Email Security Service—inbound and outbound Email Security Service—inbound
Inbound spam and malware filtering Yes - Included Yes - Included
Directory harvest attack and distributed denial of service (DDoS) prevention Yes - Included Yes - Included
User quarantine with digest Yes - Included Yes - Included
Disaster recovery spooling 7 days retention 7 days retention
Inbound content/attachment filtering Yes - Included Yes - Included
Outbound content/attachment filtering Yes - Included  
Outbound malware filtering Yes - Included  
Highly granular policy capability (global, group, end user) Yes - Included  
Per-user block/allow lists and spam settings Yes - Included  
Load balanced email delivery Yes - Included  

Documentation:

PDF File
Download the McAfee Email Security Service Datasheet (PDF).