McAfee Secure Web Gateway Jump Start

Objectives

Our consultants help you plan and implement deploying your McAfee Secure Web Gateway appliances, and work with your team to determine the best ways to leverage the technology within your network environment.

Tasks Performed:

We start by working with you to develop a strategy for your deployment.

• Establish your network protection goals
• Place sensors to most effectively protect your network
• Configure sensor ports to match your network configuration
• Review your options to deal with asymmetric network routing
• Review your options to deal with failover networks

Setup and Configuration

• Determine sensor installation modes based on your requirements
• Install one McAfee IntruShield® manager
• Install three IntruShield sensors
• Apply initial detection/prevention policies
• Set up administrative alerts

Training

We will train your network administrators over a two-day session to configure and maintain your McAfee SMG as your needs evolve.

• Schedule updates for sensors' signatures and software
• Create user roles and access privileges
• Back up and maintain the alert database
• Configure monitoring ports and virtual IDS 
• Determine appropriate policies for each interface and virtual IDS
• Clone and tune policies
• Manage and investigate alerts
• Understand how the system recognizes all categories of attacks and how it generates events
• Understand how the database stores events and packet logs
• Use the historical alerts view to find specific, filtered data
• Generate reports on events and configurations
• Create user-defined reports
• Choose the best policy for particular network segments
• Tune the policy based on actual network traffic conditions
• Use McAfee scripts to purge and tune events in the database

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Reports Generated

Not applicable

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