McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Intelligent situational awareness, response, and reporting

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Overview

Effective security starts with real-time visibility into all activity on all systems, networks, databases, and applications. McAfee Enterprise Security Manager enables your business with true, real-time situational awareness and the speed and scale required to identify critical threats, respond intelligently, and ensure continuous compliance monitoring. Security teams now have access to real-time, risk relevant information to obtain a stronger security posture while shortening response time.

Advanced risk and threat detection — Enterprise Security Manager connects evolving threat data with a real-time understanding of the risk, asset importance, and security posture throughout the enterprise. This dynamic context, combined with our highly intelligent correlation engine, provides risk scoring and threat prioritization that continually adapts to the enterprise environment. In addition, available integration with McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) software help you detect, correlate, and remediate threats in minutes across your entire IT infrastructure.

Policy-aware compliance management — As compliance requirements evolve, so must your SIEM. Enterprise Security Manager makes compliance management easy with hundreds of pre-built dashboards, complete audit trails, and reports for PCI DSS, HIPAA, NERC-CIP, FISMA, GLBA, SOX, and others. Our support for the Unified Control Framework also allows you to report your policies against more than 240 global regulations and control frameworks.

Critical facts in minutes, not hours — Our highly tuned appliance can collect, process, and correlate billions of events from multiple years and keep all information available locally for immediate ad hoc queries, forensics, rules validation, and compliance.

Global Threat Intelligence — An optional live feed of McAfee GTI IP Reputation data provides valuable, real-time information on external threats gathered from hundreds of millions of sensors around the globe, allowing you to pinpoint malicious activity on your network. Enterprise Security Manager can use the GTI IP Reputation data to quickly identify conditions where an internal host has communicated with a known bad actor.

McAfee Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for SIEM

Features & Benefits

Monitor one complete picture of security activity

Use one environment to consolidate, correlate, and report on security information from heterogeneous devices at lightning speed.

Manage evolving threats with confidence

Integrate McAfee Global Threat Intelligence services and McAfee Risk Advisor with McAfee Enterprise Security Manager for a prioritized view of events, assets, and countermeasures.

Know how network and security events correlate to real business processes and policies

Provide contextual information (vulnerability scanners, identity, authentication management systems, privacy solutions, or other supported systems) to enrich each event with context, allowing for a better understanding of how network and security events correlate to real business processes and policies.

Set policies, rules, and thresholds that will generate alerts and launch mitigations

Drive instant corrective action, such as issuing new configurations, implementing new policies, and deploying software updates.

Reduce audit effort and expense for multiple regulations

Consolidate audit and compliance activities for over 240 regulations within a single pane of glass for continuous governance and rapid reporting.

Collect the data and context you need throughout your enterprise

Leverage our custom-built database engine and integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) software to extend visibility and control across your entire security and compliance management environment.

System Requirements

For McAfee Enterprise Security Manager integration information, see the ESM Integration data sheet.

Hardware Specifications¹	ETM-X6	ETM-X4	ETM-6000	ETM-5600	ETM-4600-ELM	ETM-5600-ELM	ETM-6000-ELM
Collection Rates	300,000 events per second²	150,000 events per second²	70,000 events per second²	50,000 events per second²	1,000 events per second²	2,500 events per second²	5,000 events per second²
Analytical Performance	Less than 10 seconds³	Less than 30 seconds³	Less than 1 minute³	Less than 3 minutes³	Less than 3 minutes³	Less than 3 minutes³	Less than 1 minute³
Local Storage	14 TB⁴ + 3.2 TB Flash	14 TB⁴ + 800 GB SSD	14 TB⁴	8 TB⁴	3 TB⁴	8 TB⁴	14 TB⁴

All McAfee Enterprise Security Manager, Enterprise Log Manager, and additional McAfee SIEM appliance offerings are fault-tolerant appliances, including redundant array of independent disks (RAID) and redundant power supplies.
Based on typical network environments using average event and flow aggregation.
Indicates the average response time to generate a monthly report consisting of all events that occurred over a period of 30 days.
Represents usable event and flow storage, after RAID configuration.

Demos / Tutorials

Demos

McAfee GTI and McAfee SIEM demo

Built for big security data, McAfee Global Threat Intelligence for McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) puts the power of McAfee Labs directly into the security monitoring flow using McAfee’s high-speed, highly intelligent security information and event management (SIEM) solution.

Awards / Reviews

McAfee Positioned as a Leader by Gartner in MQ for SIEM Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

The security information and event management (SIEM) market is defined by the customer's need to analyze security event data in real time for internal and external threat management, and to collect, store, analyze and report on log data for regulatory compliance and forensics. The vendors that are included in Gartner’s analysis have technologies that have been designed for this purpose, and they actively market and sell these technologies to the security buying center.

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Gets 5-Star Rating by SC Magazine

The McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is able to gather, store, and analyze logs and data from a large amount of sources and then correlate events based on rules, possible risk, or historical trends.

Customer Stories

McAfee

McAfee integrates NitroSecurity products into its portfolio, improving its SIEM offering.

Highlights

Significantly shortens time to analyze security events from four to six days to less than 10 minutes
Decreases time to produce PCI compliance reports from eight to 12 hours to 10 minutes
Saves administrative time and manual maintenance while eliminating unnecessary activities
Facilitates disaster recovery and allows for proper use of virtual machines
Improves the organization’s overall security posture in the industry

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News

McAfee Delivers Unified Rapid-Response Security Management
February 12, 2013
Topics : Security Management, SIEM
McAfee Outlines Strategy for Future of Business Security
January 21, 2013
Topics : Network Security, Endpoint Protection, SIEM
McAfee Closes Industry Security Gap with Intelligent and Integrated Real-Time Asset Discovery
October 23, 2012
Topics : Risk & Compliance, Security Management, SIEM
McAfee Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management in Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant
May 30, 2012
Topics : SIEM
McAfee Unveils the First Situational and Risk Aware SIEM
April 24, 2012
Topics : Risk & Compliance, Security Management, SIEM
McAfee, Inc. to Acquire NitroSecurity – Advances Security Risk Management
October 4, 2011
Topics : SIEM

Events

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On Demand

McAfee ESM: Fulfilling the Promise of SIEM
On Demand Webcast

Resources

Brochures

Focus on 5: Threat Intelligence SIEM Requirements

McAfee spoke with customers about integrating SIEM with Threat Intelligence and how it helped their effort to mitigate bad actors.

Focus on 5: SIEM Requirements

Learn about the top five issues with SIEM: Big Security Data, Content and User Awareness, Dynamic Context, Solution Customization, and Business Value.

Data Sheets

ESM Integration

For a technical summary on the McAfee product integration listed above, please view the product data sheet.

Enterprise Security Manager

For a technical summary on the McAfee product listed above, please view the product data sheet.

Reports

Security Management 2.0—Time to Replace Your SIEM?

This report takes a candid look at triggers for considering a new security management platform, walking through each aspect of the decision, and presenting a process to migrate.

Pike Pulse Report: Smart Grid Cyber Security Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance

This Pike Pulse report presents an analysis of the current governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) vendors that are believed to be the best positioned for the future. McAfee scores the highest in assessment of GRC vendors for smart grid security.

McAfee Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for SIEM

Broad adoption of SIEM technology is being driven by the need to detect threats and breaches, as well as by compliance needs. Early breach discovery requires effective user activity, data access and application activity monitoring. Leading analyst firm Gartner has placed McAfee as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management.

[Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.]

Information Security Is Becoming a Big Data Analytics Problem

Information security is becoming a big data analytics problem, where massive amounts of data will be correlated, analyzed and mined for meaningful patterns. Investments in additional tools, processes and skills will be required.

Solution Briefs

Supercharge Your Security with IPS and SIEM

McAfee Network Security Platform and McAfee Enterprise Security Manager bring together real-time network protection, enterprise-wide situational awareness, and a responsive, investigation platform — in a seamlessly integrated solution that identifies and blocks more threats while ensuring rapid response to successful attacks as they emerge.

Improve Visibility and Control of Endpoints—Including Managed and BYOD

ForeScout CounterACT integrates with McAfee ePO and ESM to provide this information in realtime for both managed and unmanaged hosts.

Counter Stealth Attacks

The most menacing type of cyberattack is invisible. Using sophisticated techniques to hide its presence, a stealth attack may operate outside of the OS or move dynamically across endpoints to conceal the attackers’ actions. The risk to enterprises is real, with high-profile attacks such as Operation High Roller impacting companies around the globe. Traditional antivirus or intrusion prevention systems are no match for this new breed of attack; instead, enterprises need layered security controls that work together to detect the presence and actions of stealthy malware and attackers.

Technology Blueprints

Look Inside Network Traffic

The McAfee solution has two primary components: McAfee Firewall Enterprise and McAfee Network Security Platform. The McAfee Firewall and the IPS appliance both have add-on features that can optimize your visibility into the network. McAfee SIEM and other optional products help extend visibility and analytics to more aspects of network traffic.

Investigate Data Breaches

McAfee enables enterprises to collect, analyze, and preserve security forensic information. With a solution that includes content- and context-aware SIEM, McAfee provides alerts to security events, as well analysis on how the attacked occurred, affected users, and compromised data — so you can better understand the severity of a security breach.

Achieve Situational Awareness

The McAfee solution has two primary components: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) software and McAfee Enterprise Security Manager, with additional integrations to extend visibility and control across the entire security and compliance management environment.

White Papers

The Big Security Data Challenge

This paper addresses the Big Security Data challenge and highlights the key criteria organizations need to consider for processing security information in light of today’s dynamic threat landscape.

Security Information and Event Management

McAfee EDB data management technology handles all of these SIEM/logging requirements. It is designed, implemented, maintained, and tested by our world-class in-house development team to meet the demanding requirements of SIEM/logging and leverage all of the capabilities of appropriate emerging technologies such as modern operating systems, multicore CPUs, solid state and RAM drives, and large amounts of main memory.

Pike Research: Monitoring and Securing SCADA Networks

This white paper examines cyber security issues for industrial control systems with a specific focus on security event monitoring as it applies to industrial control networks such as SCADA.

Continuous Compliance: Is It a Reality?

In this paper, we explore the subject of continuous compliance versus audit-driven compliance, as well as how an ongoing approach to compliance makes compliance a positive force for securing data and systems.

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