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Worry-free Web Browsing and Risky Web Site Blocking for Business Users

McAfee SiteAdvisor

McAfee SiteAdvisorMcAfee SiteAdvisor Overview:

With McAfee SiteAdvisor, available in two versions—SiteAdvisor Enterprise, and SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus—you can surf and search the web safely, avoiding online threats such as spyware, adware, and phishing scams. Add the new McAfee Web Filtering for Endpoint module, and strengthen SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus to protect users on and off the corporate network.

Key Advantages:
Educate
  • Inform end users about the dangers of searching or surfing the Internet

Worry–free searching

  • When you search with Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, or Ask.com, a safety rating appears next to each search result

Browse safely

  • Our color-coded rating system lets users know which websites are safe and which are risky

Improve productivity

  • McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus allows for advanced customization to authorize or block websites based on overall site ratings or threat factors

Superior URL content filtering

  • Use the McAfee Web Filtering for Endpoint module to monitor, control, and report on users' web surfing to ensure compliance and increase employee productivity

Manage with ease

  • With McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) management console, SiteAdvisor Enterprise solutions are easy to deploy, manage, and report on across your entire organization


Description:

When it comes to web surfing, McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise is an indispensable ally, keeping you safe without limiting your access to the Internet. With SiteAdvisor Enterprise, you don't need to impose restrictive policies that keep your employees from using the web for research and business projects.

Easily identify threats — Featuring an intuitive color-coded rating system, SiteAdvisor Enterprise gives you an extra layer of protection at the desktop. For specific information about the rated site, just click on the SiteAdvisor Enterprise button in your browser, or on the message that pops up when you mouse over a search result. You'll learn about email tests, download tests, links and affiliations, and annoyances.

Perpetual Internet analysis — SiteAdvisor Enterprise relies on McAfee Global Threat Intelligence — our cloud-based rating service that continually scans the Internet with intelligent bots or virtual computers, downloads sites, and scans them for malware. The bots even fill out registration forms to determine whether signing up triggers spam. If the site contains malicious code or other suspicious activity, SiteAdvisor Enterprise marks the site “red” for risky.

Customized authorization — SiteAdvisor Enterprise also allows you to customize the authorization or blocking of website access, control messaging, assign actions based on safety ratings, and implement additional protection for remote users — all to ensure policy compliance.

Advanced web filtering — McAfee Web Filtering for Endpoint is an optional add-on to SiteAdvisor Enterprise and allows you to filter websites based on content categories and run detailed reports on web usage in your organization.

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. SiteAdvisor Enterprise uses the McAfee GTI web reputation and web categorization services to identify sites that are hosting malware, infected by malware, and hosting inappropriate content.

For specific information about the rated site, you just click on the SiteAdvisor Enterprise button in your browser or on the message that pops up when you mouse over a search result. You’ll learn about email tests, download tests, links and affiliations, and annoyances. SiteAdvisor Enterprise solutions work with both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

When it comes to business web surfing, McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise solutions are an indispensable ally, keeping you safe without limiting your access to the Internet.

SiteAdvisor Enterprise solutions
SiteAdvisor Enterprise solutions provide an intuitive color-coded rating system to identify and to advise you on possible web site threats.

SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus
SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus blocks access to unwanted web sites based on custom blacklists and whitelists.

Benefits and Features:

Benefits:

  • Gain an extra measure of protection
    Guard your employees and your organization against web-based malware like adware, spyware, viruses, and phishing scams; make it safer to search and browse the web

  • Learn all the details
    One click gives you a complete profile for every site, including information about how many emails you receive per month when you register, user reviews, and annoyance levels

  • Deploy and manage with ease
    With McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) management console, SiteAdvisor Enterprise solutions are easily deployed, managed, and reported on across your entire organization

  • Searching without worry
    Don't wander into dangerous territory unwittingly; when you search with Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, or Bing, you get a safety rating next to each search result

  • Browse safely with advanced warnings
    Our color-coded rating system identifies the sites that are safe, and those that are not

  • Increase productivity
    With SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus, you can prohibit access to undesirable websites, to avoid a time-consuming misadventure; you can also customize SiteAdvisor to permit access to whatever risky sites you deem necessary

  • Protect remote users
    Strengthen your web security and ensure around-the-clock Internet protection for remote employees. McAfee Web Filtering for Endpoint is an add-on module to SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus that provides secured web access for anyone using the Internet for work-related or personal business—in or out of network.

Features:

  • Color-coded Ratings
    Green, yellow, and red signals alert you to possible threats on the sites you visit; our automated testers continually patrol the web, and change the safety ratings accordingly

  • Extensive site testing
    SiteAdvisor Enterprise solutions test websites for excessive pop-ups, fraudulent practices, exploits like adware and spyware, and hidden links to other malicious websites

  • Supports multiple browsers and search engines
     Use SiteAdvisor as a plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers—supported in multiple search engines like Yahoo, AOL, Google, and Bing

System Requirements:

These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

SiteAdvisor Enterprise & SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus

  • Operating Systems
    • Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) with Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM
    • Windows XP Professional with SP2 and SP3
    • Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) with SP2 all editions
    • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) with SP2
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) with SP1 RTM
    • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with SP2
    • Windows Server 2003 Standard with SP2
    • Windows Server 2003 Web with SP2

  • Web Browsers
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with SP3 or later (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • Mozilla Firefox 3.5, 3.6, and 4.0
    • Google Chrome v13 and v14

  • Minimum Hardware
    • 500 MHz processor
    • 512 MB RAM
    • 20 MB free disk space
    • Internet connection

  • Virtualization Environments
    • VMware ESX
    • VMware Workstation
    • Citrix XenServer
    • Microsoft Hyper-V

SiteAdvisor Enterprise browser plug-ins are less than 800 KB for all supported browsers.

SiteAdvisor Enterprise Comparison Chart:

SiteAdvisor Enterprise Comparison Chart:
Features SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus
(included in all McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint solutions)		 SiteAdvisor Enterprise
(included in McAfee Active VirusScan® and Active Virus Defense)
Safe search ratings Yes, Included Yes, Included
Safe browser ratings Yes, Included Yes, Included
Exploit protection Yes, Included Yes, Included
Automatic ratings updates Yes, Included Yes, Included
ePO platform deployment (using ePO v4.0 or better) Yes, Included Yes, Included
Exclude sites hosted on private IP ranges Yes, Included Yes, Included
Support for common proxy servers Yes, Included Yes, Included
ePO platform policy management Yes, Included  
Advanced phishing protection Yes, Included  
Customize authorize/prohibit lists Yes, Included  
Assign actions based on safety ratings Yes, Included  
Disable or enable SiteAdvisor Yes, Included  
Customize messaging Yes, Included  
Create usage reports on ePO platform Yes, Included  
Set “Observe” mode Yes, Included  
Exceptions based on site threat factors Yes, Included  
Improved ePO platform event logging Yes, Included  
Add-on for users of McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint
(which includes SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus): McAfee Web Filtering for Endpoint provides content filtering and enforcement of host-based website access to block, warn, or allow users and groups**
(User based policies available using ePO v4.5 and McAfee Agent v4.5)		 Add-on  

 

Documentation:

PDF File
Download the McAfee SiteAdvisor Datasheet (PDF).

PDF File
Download the McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise Solution Datasheet (PDF).