McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection

McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Overview:

McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite (formerly Total Protection Service) delivers essential protection from viruses, spyware, web threats, and hacker attacks. SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite automates your online defenses, lowers costs, and streamlines security deployments, updates, upgrades, and management — all through the online McAfee SecurityCenter.

Description:

Securing all your systems and users from today's ever-changing threats is a real challenge. For your business to survive and thrive, you need an integrated solution with centralized management that provides real-time protection.

A single, integrated solution — Eliminate the need for multiple security products. SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite detects and blocks viruses, spyware, spam, phishing schemes, and hacker attacks to safeguard all your systems. Plus, built-in web security ratings warn about potentially dangerous websites, providing proactive protection without limiting online access.

Affordable security and support — A single, low-cost annual subscription offers continuous protection, automatic security updates and upgrades, and around-the-clock technical support.

Streamlined security management — SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite is easy to install and maintain. This Security-as-a-Service solution is managed by McAfee SecurityCenter, an online console that centralizes installation, configuration, reporting, and updates, enabling even remote users to easily receive the latest upgrades and protection.

Benefits and Features:

Solutions:

New threats are evolving daily and in greater numbers than ever before. Spam, phishing, viruses, web threats, and hackers can steal your valuable data and disrupt your network. Without constant updates, your security software becomes obsolete. Keeping your business continuously up to date requires total protection against all types of known and unknown threats. McAfee® SaaS Endpoint Security Suites safeguard your desktops, file servers, and email servers—with the convenience and ease of maintenance of a single, integrated Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution.

Comprehensive protection for your business means an integrated security solution that is always on guard, and always up to date—not just in the office, but also wherever employees work remotely. McAfee SaaS Endpoint Security Suites, the industry’s first truly integrated Security-as-a- Service (SaaS) solutions, provide protection against endpoint, email and web threats—all managed online through the McAfee SecurityCenter.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership
With a McAfee security SaaS solution, you reduce your security licensing costs and capital investment in onsite hardware and software by leveraging our expertise and managed infrastructure. Ideal for organizations of all sizes, McAfee SaaS Endpoint Security Suites automate security and free your IT staff from complex deployments, upgrades, and management. McAfee Gold Technical Support is included in the subscription for easy access to trusted security experts by phone, chat, and email.

McAfee SaaS Endpoint Security Suites consolidate security with the following package offerings— all with instant access to the online McAfee SecurityCenter for centralized management.

Comprehensive Coverage in a Single Solution
McAfee SaaS Endpoint Security Suites are designed for businesses of all size, providing endpoint, email, and web security against the latest known and unknown threats. SaaS Endpoint Security Suites reduce point product proliferation with a single solution.

Quick Deployment to All Users
Regardless of where your users are located, simply email them the customized installation link for quick deployment over the Internet so that they can get on board and get protected. Additional push or silent installation options are also available.

Always On-Guard Security
Enjoy uninterrupted protection that’s never obsolete with daily, automated updates and service upgrades through the McAfee security SaaS platform. Simply install the protection, and the software transparently updates via an Internet connection with no maintenance and no disruptions.

McAfee Artemis Technology
Integrated into SaaS Endpoint Security Suites, McAfee Artemis Technology is always-on protection that uses signature and behavioral-based scanning to reduce exposure from unknown threats. Artemis quarantines and blocks threats in real time and closes any protection gap in your security. Feel secure knowing that Artemis is keeping your users continuously protected from advanced threats even before the signature is developed—anytime, anywhere.

Simplified Security Management
From the web-based McAfee SecurityCenter console, centralize installation, configuration, reporting, updates, and group management. With any web browser, access the SecurityCenter to customize reporting widgets, schedule reports, or run virus and vulnerability scans.

Automatic Updates for Endpoint Protection
With the system connected to the Internet or an Internet relay, SaaS Endpoint Security Suites automatically protect and update all systems at regular intervals throughout the day, as well as providing upgrades to the latest version—all without interruption to the end user. Fast updates keep your desktops, servers, and email proactively protected against ever-evolving virus, spyware and hacker attacks.

Integrated Web Security
McAfee SiteAdvisor technology warns users before they visit a potentially dangerous website and helps to avoid online threats in real time. By testing websites and delivering safety ratings to users while they browse, SiteAdvisor helps users stay safe online. And through the SecurityCenter, you can extend your protection and customize web policies to filter out unwanted or malicious websites.

Vulnerability Assessment
Easily scan your perimeter for vulnerabilities, and take action against weaknesses in your network. View detailed reports to ensure your network status and compliance through our continual comparison against widely adopted benchmarks.

Advanced, Real-Time Email Security
Our SaaS Endpoint and Email Protection Suite process email in real time through a highly secure system. Filter and quarantine inbound and outbound threats from your email before they reach your network—no installation is required. Compatible with all major email applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, our email security service simply redirects your inbound and outbound email to McAfee and scans your mail with less than a one-second delay. McAfee also offers email server protection for users who would like to monitor email security in house.

System Requirements:

McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Suites are designed for Microsoft Windows operating systems running on PC platforms. These are minimum requirements. Recommended requirements are in parenthesis, where applicable. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

• Intel Pentium processor or compatible architecture
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or higher
• 512 MB RAM (1-2 GB recommended)
• Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
• 256-color or higher VGA monitor

Virus, spyware and firewall protection

Client computers

• Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows XP Home or Professional (32-bit or 64-bit) with SP2 or higher

Servers

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit): Standard, Enterprise, Small Business, or Essential Business Server
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: Standard, Enterprise, Web Edition, or Small Business Server

Browser protection

Client computers

• Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows XP Home or Professional (32-bit or 64-bit) with SP2 or higher

Web filtering

• Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows XP Home or Professional (32-bit or 64-bit) with SP2 or higher

Comparison Chart:

SaaS Endpoint Protection Software Comparison:
	SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite	SaaS Endpoint Protection Advanced Suite	SaaS Endpoint and Email Protection suite
McAfee SecurityCenter, for centralized visibility through an online management console
Desktop and file server anti-virus and antispyware to scan and block out malware
Desktop firewall to block hackers and intrusions
Web security for safe surfing
Web filtering to block unwanted websites
Email server protection to scan for viruses and spam in house
Email scanning to stop malicious spam and phishing attacks in the cloud
Vulnerability assessment to scan for perimeter weaknesses

Documentation:

Download the McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Datasheet (PDF).