McAfee Event Receiver appliances are responsible for the collection of log and event information from hundreds of third-party devices including firewalls, IDS/IPS devices, UTMs, switches, routers, applications, servers and workstations, identity and authentication systems, vulnerability assessment scanners, and more. McAfee Event Receiver uses a variety of collection methods including passive log collection, authenticated log collection, CEF, OPSEC, SDEE, XML, ODBC, as well as an encrypted collection validated to FIPS 140-2 Level 2.
Robust collection, powerful correlation — When a McAfee Event Receiver collects an event, it parses all relevant details into a fully normalized event taxonomy, and then provides full correlation against all events to detect larger incidents. McAfee Event Receiver correlates events collected by other distributed receivers for system-wide threat detection.
Flexible collection architecture — McAfee Enterprise Security Manager supports fully centralized “all-in-one” event collection and management, or fully distributed event collection using dedicated Event Receiver appliances, rated for several thousand to tens of thousands of events per second.
High reliability — Deploy McAfee Event Receiver redundantly for maximum reliability without any risk of data loss.
Preserve and store all details of parsed and correlated events in a highly indexed database for fast retrieval and analysis.
Make highly distributed deployment easier and more cost effective with virtual appliances.
Collect over 20,000 events per second with a single McAfee Event Receiver. Every Event Receiver caches all collected data locally to preserve data in the event of a network communication error or outage.
| Hardware Specifications | ERC-4600 | ERC-3450 | ERC-2600 | ERC-1250 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | McAfee Event Receiver collects third-party logs, events, and data for correlation and analysis by McAfee Enterprise Security Manager | McAfee Event Receiver collects third-party logs, events, and data for correlation and analysis by McAfee Enterprise Security Manager | McAfee Event Receiver collects third-party logs, events, and data for correlation and analysis by McAfee Enterprise Security Manager | McAfee Event Receiver collects third-party logs, events, and data for correlation and analysis by McAfee Enterprise Security Manager |
| Collection Rates | 20,000 events per second | 15,000 events per second | 10,000 events per second | 5,000 events per second |
| Analytical Performance | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Local Storage | 3 TB | 1.8 TB | 1.8 TB | 1 TB |
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