McAfee SaaS Web Protection

McAfee SaaS Web Protection Overview:

Free your business to take maximum advantage of Web 2.0 with convenient web protection through the cloud. McAfee SaaS Web Protection relieves you of the expertise, effort, and capital expense associated with on-premises solutions, letting you stay focused on business. Our service protects your team from infection, malicious infiltration, lost productivity, and corporate risk. Managed by experts in cloud security, you gain effective and economical control over threats and undesired Internet access.

Description:

McAfee SaaS Web Protection offers exceptional web security through a reliable, hands-free Security-as-a-Service deployment model. It’s an effective way to keep your company connected while taking charge of online security. With no hardware to install, SaaS Web Protection is easy to implement. Simply redirect your web traffic to our load-balanced data centers, where it is scanned with our state-of-the-art security technologies to provide comprehensive protection. Near-zero latency, industry-leading uptime, and enterprise-class scalability ensure the performance and reliability you need to secure even the most distributed environments. If you already have on-premises web filtering, our service seamlessly adds additional layers of protection, including the highest rated anti-malware engine, and secures branch offices and mobile users.

Complete inbound and outbound protection — Traffic that violates your Internet-use policies is blocked before it can enter your network. Permitted traffic is analyzed to provide immediate protection against malware and other exploits.

Security for Web 2.0 traffic — SaaS Web Protection uses sophisticated technologies to analyze the nature, intent, and behavior of a web page’s active content. This deep analysis proactively protects against unknown malware, blended threats, phishing sites, and targeted attacks.

Enhanced security powered by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence — McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) is a comprehensive cloud-based threat intelligence service. Already integrated into McAfee security products, it works in real time, 24 hours a day, to protect customers against cyberthreats across all vectors — file, web, message, and network. McAfee GTI offers the broadest threat data, most robust data correlation, and most complete product integration in the industry. McAfee’s GTI network allows enabled products to evaluate threats on multiple vectors in real time, leading to faster identification of threats and higher capture rates. SaaS Web Protection also uses the McAfee GTI web categorization services to identify sites hosting undesirable content.

Unmatched web filtering — With 100 categories to choose from, our web filtering provides flexibility along with accuracy and security. Pair our categories with your unique user communities to set policies against offensive, undesired, and unproductive web use.

Easy integration with other McAfee products — Combine SaaS Web Protection with McAfee SaaS Email Protection and McAfee SaaS Email Archiving to defend against blended online threats and to meet your growing email storage and compliance needs. For the ultimate in flexibility, McAfee Web Protection offers the control of an onsite solution, the ease of management associated with Security-as-a-Service, or the option of hybrid deployments.

Benefits and Features:

Solutions:

The web opened the door to infinite business opportunity. For your business— and the business of cybercrime. Each web connection provides an entry point for infection, malicious infiltration, and corporate risk. By applying risk assessments updated 24/7 by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee® SaaS Web Protection offers easy, feature-rich, vital defenses against dynamic web-based malware attacks. Managed by experts in cloud security, you gain effective and economical control over threats and undesired Internet access.

The dynamic content and interactivity of Web 2.0 can increase the delivery of sophisticated web-borne threats that evade detection by traditional security measures. To protect your employees, customers, network, and intellectual property, your organization needs proactive web security. That means a solution that doesn’t just block “known bad” URLs, but also unknown and hidden attacks, blended threats, and spyware.

Unfettered use of the web can also lead to unproductive users and legal issues. Managing safe, appropriate Internet access can be a big resource drain for any company, but the consequences of not doing so can be severe.

McAfee SaaS Web Protection offers exceptional web security through a reliable, hands-free Security-as-a-Service deployment model. There’s no more easy or effective way to keep your company connected while taking charge of online security.

With no hardware or software to install, SaaS Web Protection is speedy and simple to implement. In addition, near-zero latency, industry-leading uptime, and enterprise-class scalability ensure the performance and reliability you need to secure even the most demanding and distributed environments. If you already have on-premises web filtering, our service is a good way to add anti-malware or secure branch offices and mobile users.

Complete inbound and outbound protection
Our SaaS Web Protection secures all aspects of Web 2.0 traffic. It enforces your organization’s Internet use policy by automatically applying access rules to all policy-controlled web traffic. Traffic that violates your policy is blocked before it can enter your network. For permitted traffic, SaaS Web Protection uses sophisticated techniques to analyze the nature and intent of all content and active code on the requested web pages. It provides immediate protection against malware and other exploits.

Automatic protection updated in real time
Websites and content change frequently, and cybercriminals have learned how to disguise their locations and actions. Traditional static URL blocking isn’t enough. The McAfee Global Threat Intelligence network collects real-time data from 100 million sensors and correlates activities across key threat vectors, including email, web, vulnerabilities, and host and network intrusions. More than 400 dedicated threat researchers at McAfee Labs™ develop advanced analytics and reputation services to infer intent and risk and act to protect you.

Content analysis to detect changing malware
Malware on websites can download silently to unsuspecting visitor machines, resulting in keyloggers that “phone home” with logins and customer data, or a zombie that joins a global botnet. By scanning a web page’s active content and understanding its intent or predicted behavior, we proactively protect against unknown malware, blended threats, phishing sites, and targeted attacks. We can also strip out objectionable or regulated content, such as pornography.

Flexible control based on categories and users
Categories make it easy to set policies against offensive, undesired, and unproductive use of the web. With 100 categories to choose from, our web filtering is unmatched in flexibility, accuracy, and security. It provides easy control over inappropriate Internet use that saps productivity and can present legal liability.

In addition, categories can be matched to content and user communities for more targeted control. For instance, bandwidth-intensive video-sharing sites might be blocked during peak business hours for everyone except the marketing staff. Customer care teams can be allowed to access news and shopping sites—but not gambling portals—during the lunch hour. Granular controls like these are more effective than indiscriminate blocking of Internet access and allow you to foster a productive and secure online experience.

Savings come standard with our security
In addition to the savings gained by using our proactive control to strip malware and restrict risky sites, you will reduce the costs and IT overhead associated with clean-up and replacement of infected PCs. Surfing and access controls also free up network bandwidth for legitimate work, putting off network upgrades while reducing wasted employee productivity.

Rapid service activation with minimal costs
Security-as-a-Service offers the most cost-effective way to implement and maintain effective Internet safeguards. Simply redirect your web traffic to our load-balanced data centers, where the traffic is scanned using state-of-the-art security technologies. Your web traffic is automatically routed to our nearest data center—architected with the capacity and performance to instantaneously handle all requests. As a result, users browse securely without noticeable latency.

Since our experts take care of all the hardware and software, you can be up and running fast with virtually no upfront costs. Ongoing costs are affordable and predictable. Without on-site equipment, client components, or security updates to manage, you also save on IT administration— freeing your staff and budget for other missioncritical IT needs. Our solution is scalable to meet the needs of the most demanding environments and supports all standard web technologies and browsers.

As a subscription service, McAfee maintains defenses constantly and enhances protection features regularly, totally transparently, with no impact on your business. The McAfee support team is available to answer your account and billing questions via a toll-free phone number or on line, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Convenient administration and reporting
Customizable dashboards help each administrator monitor trends and gain better understanding of how the organization uses web and email resources. From any browser, you can isolate problems, document inappropriate activity, comply with regulations, and fine-tune filtering settings to enforce web usage policies. Tailored notifications alert users to policy violations and blocked web content. Administrative alerts provide instant knowledge about important security events.

System Requirements:

McAfee SaaS Web Protection has no system requirements because it is an online service. Simply redirect your web traffic through the service.

Documentation:

Download the McAfee SaaS Web Protection Datasheet (PDF).