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McAfee Email Gateway

(Formerly IronMail)

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Comprehensive protection from email-borne threats and email data loss

The scale and diversity of email-borne security threats continue to increase. Email is also a primary vector for data loss. McAfee Email Gateway (formerly IronMail) integrates comprehensive inbound threat protection with outbound data loss prevention (DLP), encryption, detailed reporting, and simplified administration. You gain enterprise-class features and performance that scale to meet the most demanding workloads—all with minimal administrative overhead.

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Benefits and Features

Benefits:

  • Protect against all inbound threats
    Identify and block incoming spam with over 99 percent accuracy while protecting against viruses, malware, phishing, directory harvest, denial of service, bounceback attacks, zero-hour threats, and spam surges; TrustedSource™ helps make it happen
  • Stop outbound data loss
    Prevent data leakage with the most extensive on-box email data loss prevention in the industry that features fingerprinting, lexical analysis, and clustering techniques that supplement keyword and pattern matching to detect both structured and unstructured data; policy-based message handling then prevents outbound data loss
  • Safeguard sensitive data
    Ensure that only the intended recipient of sensitive email content is able to read that content and ease regulatory compliance using integrated, policy-based encryption
  • Simplify email security management
    Take advantage of flexible policy creation and enforcement, and enterprise-class logging and reporting capabilities to simplify administration and compliance workloads-and significantly reduce costs; integrates with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) for comprehensive reporting and dashboard views
  • Reap the benefits of a hybrid solution
    Choose a hybrid solution by combining the McAfee SaaS Email Protection service with the McAfee Email Gateway appliance. Filter spam in the cloud and protect sensitive data with on-premise appliances which provide data loss prevention, flexible policy creation, and encryption.

Features:

  • Integrated DLP to Stop Data Loss
    McAfee Email Gateway includes the industry's most extensive on-box email DLP capabilities to stop the loss of sensitive information via email. McAfee Email Gateway provides industry-leading email content analysis tools to provide the tightest control of sensitive content in any form to aid compliance with many state, national, and international regulations. It can also integrate with McAfee Network DLP Prevent to enhance the solution's ability to correctly identify sensitive data and assist in its safe handling.
  • Automated, policy-based encryption
    Encrypt sensitive data automatically, based on policy. McAfee Email Gateway email encryption uses a combination of B2B (TLS, S/MIME, and OpenPGP) and B2C (push and pull) technologies to ensure that even recipients without encryption capabilities are able to receive and reply to secure email
  • TrustedSource global reputation intelligence
    Count on TrustedSource® to provide predictive security against new and emerging threats. Through a global network of sensors and third-party intelligence sources, it correlates and analyzes the behavior of Internet entities and calculates their current reputation or 'trustworthiness'. McAfee customers use this reputation information to protect their infrastructure against the latest online threats.
  • McAfee Email Anti-virus
    Gain integrated protection against email-borne viruses and malware
  • Webmail protection
    Extend integrated security to Outlook Web Access, iNotes, and other common webmail applications
  • Image analysis
    Detect and enforce your policies for pornographic images in both inbound and outbound messages
  • Backscatter protection
    Identify and block false non-delivery notices forged by viruses and spammers
  • Pre-built dictionaries and document training tools
    Jumpstart your data loss prevention efforts by helping the gateway automatically learn which types of data and documents are sensitive, and which aren't. It includes prebuilt dictionaries for regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA, and SOX, and includes tools for both keyword and document compliance

Description:

Email is arguably today's most indispensable communications medium and one of the most business-critical services. It also presents an incredible security challenge to protect the enterprise from external attacks and prevent internal data loss via email.

McAfee Email Gateway integrates comprehensive inbound threat protection with outbound data loss prevention, advanced compliance, encryption, detailed reporting, and simplified administration.

McAfee Email Gateway comprises:

  • TrustedSource™ global reputation intelligence is the service cornerstone of all McAfee gateway security solutions. The world's most precise and comprehensive Internet host reputation system, TrustedSource continuously monitors and characterizes Internet senders through a global network of more than 10,000 sensors in 82 countries.
  • McAfee Email Gateway appliances combine inbound threat protection, outbound data loss prevention, advanced compliance, and granular policy creation in a hardened, tightly integrated platform that's easy to deploy and maintain. A complete range of enterprise and medium-capacity appliances offer affordable protection and scalability for the most demanding business messaging environments.

Additional products within the comprehensive McAfee Email Gateway family include:

  • McAfee Email Encryption, Gateway Edition provides policy-based email encryption without the need for a separate encryption appliance to automatically encrypt email at the gateway, ensuring that sensitive data stays secure and that even recipients without encryption capabilities are able to receive and reply to secure email.
  • McAfee Email Gateway Control Center appliance can be used to centrally manage multiple gateway appliances.
  • McAfee Email Gateway Quarantine Server appliance provides consolidated quarantine services for multiple gateway appliances.

System Requirements:

McAfee Email Gateway is delivered as a hardened appliance that sits in front of your existing mail server, providing protection from inbound email-borne threats and outbound data leakage.

Model name: S10 
Form Factor: 1U rack mount
Processor: Single Core
Memory: 2GB
Interfaces: 2 x 10/100/1000
RAID: N/A
Hard Disk:160GB SATA
Power Supply: Single
 
Model name: S120 
Form Factor: 1U rack mount
Processor: Core2Duo
Memory: 4GB
Interfaces: 4 x 10/100/1000
RAID: RAID1
Hard Disk: 2 x 160GB SATA
Power Supply: Single
 
Model name: EG-5000 
Form Factor: 1U rack mount
Processor: Quad Core
Memory: 6 GB
Interfaces: 4 x 10/100/1000
RAID: RAID 1
Hard Disk: 2 x 300 GB SAS
Power Supply: Redundant
 
Model name: EG-5500 
Form Factor: 2U rack mount
Processor: 2 Quad Core
Memory: 12 GB
Interfaces: 4 x 10/100/1000
RAID: Raid 10
Hard Disk: 6 x 300 GB SAS
Power Supply: Redundant