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McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance

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McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance (EWS) integrates comprehensive email security and web features into a single appliance. It’s easy to buy, quick to deploy, and simple to manage. Arm yourself against the latest email and web-borne threats, manage email and web traffic and usage, and reduce system administration requirements to just minutes a day with McAfee EWS.

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Benefits and Features

Benefits:

  • Simplify your security
    Designed specifically for the needs of medium to small-sized businesses; features an administrative interface loaded with interactive displays and configuration wizards to help accelerate and simplify security administration and management activities; nearly everything you need is just a click away; turnkey installation enables rapid deployment
  • Get powerful email protection
    Rated the most effective spam filter in an anti-spam comparative review by Virus Bulletin; protects email with advanced anti-virus and anti-malware capabilities, usage policy enforcement, compliance tools, and zero-day threat protection; delivers comprehensive reporting and monitoring in a single, integrated appliance
  • Save money
    McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance offers affordable flat-rate pricing; no per user fees; no costly add-ons
  • Consolidate
    Integrating email and web security removes the need for additional point products; reduce initial and ongoing ownership costs
  • Don’t compromise
    Get efficient spam blocking and low false positive rates; McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance delivers one of the most effective anti-spam engines available, so you don’t have to choose between high catch rates or low false positives
  • Improve your intelligence
    Informative dashboard reports provide real-time and historical views of email and web traffic; integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) enables centralized reporting and aggregation of all your security solutions
  • Rest assured
    Award-winning McAfee Technical Support helps maximize uptime and solve problems quickly and efficiently; standard 24/7 support; standard next-day hardware replacement warranty
  • Scale accordingly
    McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance lets you increase capacity as your needs grow; built-in clustering and load balancing capabilities provide easy scalability options

Features:

  • Comprehensive, proactive malware protection
    Award-winning McAfee scanning engine detects, cleans, and protects email from viruses, worms, rootkits, Trojans, and other threats; delivers comprehensive find-and-fix solutions; automated updates ensure you always have the latest virus signature files and countermeasures in place
  • Advanced content filtering
    Scan inbound and outbound email and attachments; create and enforce content-based policies and best practices quickly and easily with content rule wizards, built-in and customizable dictionaries, threshold counters, whitelists, and other tools
  • Reputational analysis
    Leverage the reputational analysis from McAfee TrustedSource to apply intelligence from email sensors and gateway security devices around the globe for quicker, more accurate identification of spam
  • Integrated URL filtering
    Understand, filter, control, and monitor Internet usage; group-based policies; simple to configure; included as a standard feature with McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance
  • McAfee SiteAdvisor
    Surf safely with award-winning McAfee SiteAdvisor web reputation technology; be informed about risky websites before clicking on them; automatically block or warm against malicious websites that harbor spyware, phishing scams, spamming agents, or other exploits
  • Quarantine management
    Available for no additional cost, McAfee Quarantine Manager delivers advanced quarantine storage and management options; consolidate quarantine and anti-spam administration functionality
  • McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO)
    Integration with McAfee ePO provides centralized policy management and graphical reporting; the first and only security management platform to centrally manage systems, networks, data, and compliance solutions; secures your network, data, and endpoints

 

Testimonials

"The Email and Web Security Appliance is our primary line of defense and has provided solid protection from viruses on inbound email. In one month, it stopped over 3.3 million pieces of spam, 76 infected emails and 32 Potentially Unwanted Programs with a legitimate email count of 175,935. In a year it has blocked over 17 million messages, with very few false positives."

—Roger Norfolk
GroupWise Administrator
Mercy Hospital

Description:

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance enables you to arm yourself against the latest email and web-borne threats, manage web and email traffic and usage, and reduce system administration requirements to just minutes a day or less.

Designed for medium to small sized businesses, McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance delivers comprehensive email and web security. In addition to market-leading security effectiveness, it also provides email and web usage policy enforcement capabilities, compliance tools, informative dashboards, and comprehensive reporting. The robust feature set is managed with an intuitive interface that greatly simplifies configuration and system administration activities.

 

System Requirements:

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance is available as a standard or virtual appliance. Requirements for the virtual appliance are below.

Virtual Appliance System Requirements

  • VMware Server 1.0.6 or later
  • VMware ESX 3.5 or later

These are recommended minimum hardware requirements only:

  • One dual-core x86/x64 processor
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 80 GB free storage