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Email and Web Policy Enforcement

Automated controls and broad visibility over email and web use

McAfee network security solutions let you monitor and control web and email usage to ensure compliance with acceptable-use policies, ease regulatory compliance, and prevent inappropriate transmission of sensitive data. Our appliances and services allow you to set and enforce policies to help ensure that the content of messages leaving or traveling across your organization complies with corporate guidelines and government regulations. You can avoid penalties and brand damage at the same time you improve productivity, save bandwidth, and reduce your legal liability.

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Overview:

Key Benefits

  • Efficient implementation of required regulatory controls—Scan both web traffic and email  for a wide variety of controlled and sensitive information; McAfee products automatically take appropriate policy-based action to comply with regulations
  • Improved visibility and control over Internet use—Enforce Internet usage policies based on time of day, user or group, or category of website; user-level reporting allows you to see individual web surfing activities
  • Better data loss prevention—Stop intellectual property, regulated data, and  sensitive information from being inadvertently or maliciously transmitted outside your organization and maintain your competitive advantage
  • Reduced liability—Lower legal liability by blocking access to undesirable websites, such as pornography and gambling sites, as well as protecting against abuse of company email systems and the loss of sensitive information via email
  • Higher employee productivity and more bandwidth—Limit frivolous use of the Internet and block spam to keep employees productive while preserving network bandwidth
  • Flexible implementations that match your business—Adapt email and Web security to your infrastructure with a choice of solutions that run at your network perimeter, at McAfee’s security datacenter (“in the cloud”), or on your web and email servers
  • Plug-and-play integration convenience—Lower the administrative burden associated with deploying and managing web and email security systems through access to the tools and reporting you need with the ease of use you expect

Products and Services:

Products

McAfee Content Security Blade Server—Give your large enterprise an ultra-high-performance solution for spam, malware, and other undesirable content entering or leaving a network; a highly efficient blade server architecture lowers IT security costs and provides an extensible platform capable of addressing existing and future threats

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance—Control web surfing and enforce compliance for both email and web communications; this perimeter appliance is ideal for midsized organizations (50 to 1,000 users) that want to implement content controls while blocking spam, viruses, spyware, and malicious websites

McAfee Email Gateway (formerly IronMail®)—Protect enterprises with more than 1,000 users against inbound email-borne threats, such as spam, viruses, phishing, and directory harvest (DHA) and denial-of-service attacks, while also protecting against outbound data leakage and aiding regulatory compliance; over 99 percent spam detection accuracy as well as integrated encryption

McAfee Network DLP Prevent—Monitor and block both inbound and outbound communications that violate your policies and put your data at risk

McAfee SmartFilter®—Control risky or inappropriate use to enhance web security, reduce legal liability, increase productivity, and preserve bandwidth for business-related activities

McAfee Web Gateway (formerly Webwasher®)—Protect user-initiated web traffic against inbound threats, such as malware hidden on websites or in encrypted SSL traffic, as well as outbound threats, such as potential loss of structured, confidential information; combines multiple features and protections in one appliance, including web filtering, anti-malware, anti-virus, SSL scanning, reporting, and caching

Services

McAfee Email Security Service—Raise the level of your messaging security without additional hardware, software, or IT staff; route email through the McAfee SecurityCenter, where it is scanned and cleaned before delivery to your network, with less than a one-second delay in transit

McAfee Maximum Access—Enhance your compliance with exclusive threat research and custom policy checks for compliance; your dedicated researcher can develop automated rules to enforce exacting regulatory and governance controls and help you remediate quickly to avoid noncompliance

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