McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint

McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint Overview:

Collaboration and information sharing is integral to your business. That’s why you depend on tools like Microsoft SharePoint. Detect, clean, and remove viruses and inappropriate content from your SharePoint workspace with McAfee Security for Microsoft Sharepoint™, so that your employees, partners, and customers stay productive and worry free.

Description:

McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint (MSMS) ensures that your corporate SharePoint deployment does not spread malware, store inappropriate content, or lead to data loss. Microsoft Sharepoint, a widely deployed tool to share and store business information and content, does not block malware or inappropriate content—a risk for organizations that are unable to ensure SharePoint users have the latest malware protection in place. MSMS delivers industry-leading protection to prevent the server from inadvertently becoming a security hazard.

Specialized for SharePoint security — MSMS adds the critical layer of anti-virus protection and content filtering to ensure you achieve all the business benefits of SharePoint without any of the associated security hazards.

Simplified deployment and management — MSMS interfaces with SharePoint using the recommended security architecture via SharePoint VirusScan API and the SharePoint Object Model. You can deploy MSMS on all SharePoint web front-end servers in your SharePoint farm, either individually on the SharePoint server, or centrally deployed and managed through the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform. MSMS works with SharePoint 2003, 2007, and 2010, giving you continued protection even in diverse environments.

Integration with industry—leading anti-malware technology — McAfee Artemis Technology is the first always-on, real-time protection that secures enterprises and consumers from threats as they strike. Its Global Threat Intelligence blocks malware, stops data theft, and prevents damage to your systems before virus signature updates are even available, reducing the protection gap, decreasing false positives, and strengthening endpoint security without additional cost.

Benefits and Features:

Solutions:

Protect the Data You Value
Documents, files, web content, and information stored in SharePoint are critical to your business and must be secured. McAfee can help. McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software secures the information that makes your business productive by detecting, cleaning, and removing malware and banned or inappropriate content stored in your SharePoint workspace.

Proactive Protection from Malware
McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software uses the award-winning McAfee scanning and cleaning engine to detect and clean malware. We protect all information on your SharePoint farm from infection by viruses, worms, Trojans, and other threats. Now integrated with global threat intelligence from McAfee Artemis™ technology, McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software reduces the protection gap from hours, or even days, to milliseconds. McAfee Artemis technology delivers a high malware detection rate by leveraging intelligence correlated across millions of sensors that are looking for new malware. McAfee Artemis technology also decreases false positives through instant comparison of millions of genuine whitelist files.

Know Your Content
McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software offers preset content rules to prevent the spread of inappropriate content. Easy to use and immediately effective, the preset content rules can be run out of the box, or you can finetune them using advanced custom rule sets. The content management rules can prevent downloads and uploads and report the details about documents in your repository that contain sensitive or offensive information.

Scalable Management
McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software leverages your security investment in the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (McAfee ePO™) management platform. McAfee ePO software optimizes your security investments and delivers quantifiable operational efficiencies in your environment, extending to both physical and virtualization platforms. Comprehensive, detailed, graphical reports from McAfee ePO software inform you of your security posture and answer the question: “Are all my servers protected with the latest engine and virus definition files (.DATs)?” McAfee ePO software provides remote deployment and configuration, and large enterprise rollouts can be easily managed from a central location.

Enhanced Dashboard
The McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software dashboard provides an overview of the latest detections; graphical views with multiple charts, detection summaries, product updates, licensing and version information and details on recently scanned items.

Key Features

Advanced anti-virus technology
McAfee anti-virus technology with McAfee Artemis technology blocks viruses and malicious code threats and offers real-time security using a combination of signature and behavior analysis with community threat intelligence. It drills down to find threats in compressed files with advanced heuristics and generic detection. It even finds and blocks new viruses before they are detected with the latest .DAT signatures.

Real-time and scheduled scans for maximum protection
Continuous protection is yours with defense in depth through real-time on-access scanning and the ability to schedule periodic deep scans of all data using the latest malware and content filtering signatures. Opt to limit full-repository scans only during scheduled maintenance windows, or choose one or more scan targets, including web applications, websites, folders, and specific file types. Reduce overhead by choosing to scan only new files.

Effective content filtering
Apply rules to more than 300 types of documents, including Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office. Using the McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software content rules, you can prevent inappropriate or unauthorized content downloads and uploads. Additionally, you can prevent data loss through flexible content filtering and ensure that only valid business assets are stored in SharePoint

Central management and reporting
Because McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software integrates with McAfee ePO software, you can manage it and other McAfee security products from a single console and create detailed graphical reports.

Preset content rules
Prevent the spread of inappropriate content with preset content rules. Start immediately, and finetune them later with advanced custom rule sets.

Microsoft VSAPI
McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software uses Microsoft VSAPI technology and the Microsoft SharePoint Object Model to protect your SharePoint Server.

Automatic updating
Update virus definitions and engines to ensure that protection is up to date. Integration with McAfee Artemis technology provides real-time detection of viruses within milliseconds.

Enhanced quarantine management
McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint software now stores the quarantined documents locally in a PostgreSQL-based database. The quarantine is associated with added search functionality based on infection name, file name, and other parameters.

System Requirements:

The following are minimum system requirements only. Recommended requirements are in parenthesis, where applicable. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010/Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
• Information Services (IIS) 7.0 or higher
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1), 2007 SP2/ Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, 3.0 SP1, 3.0 SP2

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Information Services (IIS) 6.0 or higher
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003/Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit)
• Information Services (IIS) 6.0 or higher
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

Server Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, latest Service Pack available (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows 2008 Server R2 (64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server with SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)

System Requirements

• CPU: 2.5-GHz processor (x86) or higher; dual processor, 3 GHz or faster Intel x64 architecture-based processor that supports Intel Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (Intel EM64T)
• RAM: 2 GB (4 GB recommended)
• Disk space: 500 MB

Documentation:

Download the McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint Datasheet (PDF).