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McAfee SmartFilter
The web you want. The control you need.
Today’s dynamic Web 2.0 environment poses significant security challenges for the enterprise. Take charge of security in your organization with smart web filtering that helps prevent exposure to viruses, malware, and other security risks, while reducing your legal liability, maximizing employee productivity, and preserving bandwidth for business-related activities.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Get the industry’s best protection
Protect against viruses and malicious software invading your network through employee downloads with the powerful combination of reputation- and category-based filtering powered by TrustedSource™ - Reduce risk while boosting productivity
Understand, filter, and monitor Internet use to control outbound web access and protect against web-based threats; you'll reduce legal liability, maximize employee productivity, and preserve bandwidth for business-related activities - Match your exact infrastructure needs
Fit McAfee SmartFilter into almost any network environment; choose from more than 30 supported platforms; for on-box implementations, no hardware or network configuration changes are needed; for off-box installations, select from in-line or pass-by options - Put flexibility in your policy management
Customize policies by user, group, IP, and IP range; filter by time of day, day of week, file type (.jpg, .mp3, etc.), URL, and HTTP/HTTPS traffic; choose to deny access, allow, coach, or let authorized users override filtering policy - Fine-tune policy to fit your organization’s needs
Start with our expansive number of categories and numerous predefined filtering policies and then customize as needed; add custom categories, create block/allow lists, exempt certain URLs by category, and more
Features:
- Filtering on category
Take advantage of comprehensive and granular category coverage; the McAfee TrustedSource Web Database provides a proven repository of more than 25 million blockable websites across more than 90 categories - Reputation-based filtering
Enhance category-based filtering with real-time scoring powered by TrustedSource; proactively and reliably detect spyware, phishing, malware, and other security threats in today's Web 2.0 environment - Powerful reporting capabilities by user or IP
Quickly understand how your organization is using the web and then drill down to identify trends, isolate problems, document inappropriate web activity, and tailor your filter settings to effectively enforce your web-usage policies - A solution tailored to your organization
Designate users who can override the filter for a specified time, exempt sites you would like specific groups or individuals to access, and create custom categories to better implement your organization’s unique Internet access policy
Description:
The Internet is essential to business today. However, the dynamic Web 2.0 environment—with its growing use of blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and other interactive features—poses significant security challenges for the enterprise. Malicious code and web-borne viruses can easily enter the network when users visit infected websites—without users even being aware of it.
Put an end to those risks with McAfee SmartFilter. It’s the intelligent web filtering solution designed to prevent your employees from accessing sites that expose your organization to viruses, malware, and other security risks, while reducing legal liability, maximizing employee productivity, and preserving bandwidth for business-related activities.
SmartFilter enables your organization to understand, filter, and monitor Internet use, while providing effective control over outbound web access and protection against the web-based threats you’re likely to encounter, today and tomorrow.
Using a combination of real-time reputation scoring and category filtering, McAfee SmartFilter proactively and reliably detects and enables you to block spyware, phishing, malware, and other ubiquitous security threats in today’s Web 2.0 environment.
- TrustedSource™ technology proactively finds, reports, and enables SmartFilter to block traffic to and from questionable sources. Relying on its global reputation network and knowledge of Internet entities, TrustedSource identifies potentially malicious behavior, including actions that indicate an intention to distribute malicious code.
- For category-based filtering, the TrustedSource Web Database provides a proven repository of more than 25 million blockable websites in more than 90 categories. Built by a team of multilingual web analysts using state-of-the-art technology, our TrustedSource Web Database offers unmatched coverage, quality, and accuracy.
System Requirements:
McAfee SmartFilter and SmartFilter, Education Edition
Supported operating systems
Windows 2000, 2003, XP Professional, Vista
Solaris 8, 9, 10
Red Hat ES 3, 4, 5, 5.1
Supported platforms
Check Point Firewall-1
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances
Cisco Catalyst Switches
Cisco Content Engine
Cisco Integrated Service Routers
Cisco PIX Firewall
Cisco Routers/IOS Firewall
Microsoft ISA Server 2000 / 2004 / 2006
Nortel ACC
Nortel ASF
Novell Border Manager
SonicWALL
Squid Proxy Server
Stratacache
Sun Java System Web Server
3Com SuperStack 3
McAfee SmartFilter—Web Inspector
Supported operating systems
Windows 2000, 2003, XP Professional
Supported OEM partner platforms
Blue Coat NetCache
Blue Coat ProxySG
Computer Associates eTrust Secure Content Manager
Computer Associates eTrust Intrusion Detection
eSoft InstaGate
FaceTime RTGuardian
Hewlett Packard TRU64
McAfee Firewall Enterprise (Sidewinder)
McAfee Secure Content Management Appliances
McAfee Web Gateway (formerly Webwasher)
Net IQ WebMarshal
Netopia Parental Controls
Safebrowse.com Safe Eyes Parental Controls
Vericept VIEW Filter