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McAfee Data Loss Prevention

McAfee Network and System Protection

Prevent accidental and malicious loss of confidential data

Loss or leakage of confidential data can result in dire consequences for your organization. You need to gain visibility and control over your data immediately. With McAfee Data Loss Prevention, you can instantly monitor and prevent data loss at work, at home, and on the road. This comprehensive solution protects your organization from the risks of financial loss, brand damage, and noncompliance.

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Benefits and Features

Benefits:

  • Protect data everywhere
    Prevent data loss or leakage anywhere your data goes—at work, at home, and on the road with comprehensive protection
  • Safeguard all your data
    Prevent accidental or malicious loss of data by insiders or hackers, even when data is disguised
  • Be prepared for compliance audits
    Get the visibility and control you need to support compliance and corporate governance requirements; gather evidence on data loss prevention events with advanced forensics
  • Protect data on every endpoint
    Ensure data is protected on every endpoint on your network, regardless of the operating system or type of device
  • Easy operation
    Reduce IT management time with central deployment and policy management

Features:

  • Protect without disrupting
    Prevent data loss or leakage without interrupting legitimate business activities, even when data is modified, copied, pasted, compressed, or encrypted.
  • Control data transfer on the network and from any device
    Control the way users access, print, and send sensitive data over the network and to input/output devices; track the transfer of confidential data over email, webmail, P2P applications, IM, Skype, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Wi-Fi, USB, CD, DVD, printers, fax, and removable storage
  • Monitor everyone, no matter where they work
    Prevent sensitive data transfer from all desktops and laptops—regardless of where users go or whether they are connected to the corporate network
  • Complete visibility at your fingertips
    Store evidence for analysis; gather all the data you need, such as sender, recipient, time stamp, data evidence, and more for proper investigation and audit, damage control, and risk assessment with our comprehensive incident reporting and monitoring tool
  • Multi-layered protection
    Stop data loss from all endpoints with host and gateway protection; it even prevents data loss from non-Microsoft® Windows systems and devices without a DLP agent

Testimonials

"Data loss prevention is a top priority for Partner Communications (Orange), as we are required to adhere to a constantly evolving set of compliance and security requirements. McAfee DLP Host enables us to adapt to these requirements without new investment in infrastructure. At the same time, the solution automates a number of our processes that are currently performed manually and improves our protection from potential data loss."

—Micky Belhassen, information security manager

Description:

Your corporate data—financial documents, customer records, source code, intellectual property—is your lifeblood. And it’s often just a few mouse clicks away from being distributed where it shouldn’t be. Data loss is a mounting problem. Experts say that the average cost of one incident of data loss or leakage for large organizations is estimated at $4.8 million [Source: “Ponemon Institute: 2006 Cost of Data Breach Study”]. As data leaks from your company into the public, you risk harm to your reputation or fines for non-compliance with government and industry regulations.

Don’t expose yourself to the risk of deliberate or accidental data loss. Control your critical information with McAfee® Data Loss Prevention (DLP)—a key component of our approach to security risk management.

McAfee is the largest dedicated security company to offer comprehensive data loss prevention that addresses data loss perpetrated by insiders as well as from external threats. We cover all sources of data loss—from roaming laptops to the network, from email and IM to USB flash drives and printers.

McAfee DLP provides multi-layered protection at the endpoint and the gateway to prevent data loss at work, at home, and on the road.  Even confidential data on guest laptops and non-Windows endpoints are protected.

Through the logging and analysis server, monitor real-time events, and generate detailed forensics reports. Apply centrally-managed, security policies to regulate and restrict how your employees use and transfer sensitive data without interfering with normal business activities.

System Requirements:

Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Active Directory Domain Requirements

  • All end stations and the server must be members of one Active Directory domain
  • A user with full administrative rights over the end stations is needed for agent configuration

Network Requirements

  • 100 mbit LAN for all machines, preferably on same network segment
  • A TCP connection on one configurable port (from each endpoint to the server machine) must be allowed in the firewall
  • HTTP traffic on port 80 between stations monitoring events to the server
  • A few file system shares are defined on the server machine as part of the installation. These should be accessible from the end stations.
  • Remote desktop connection (RDP) should be enabled and accessible on the server machine for installation and configuration

Server Machine

  • Hardware requirements:
    • CPU: 2.8 GHz Intel® Pentium® IV or better
    • RAM: at least 1 GB
    • Hard disk: at least 80 GB
  • Software requirements:
    • Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition (With SP1)
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP1 (with the reporting subsystem included)
    • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (required for Management console)
    • Microsoft GPMC
    • Microsoft IIS + ASP .NET
  • Operating system requirements:
    • A local (or domain) user member of the server’s local administrator's group
  • SQL server requirements:
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP1 (with reporting subsystem included)
    • Default Instance
    • Mixed authentication, SA user, and password mandatory for deployment

Endpoint Requirements

  • Hardware requirements:
    • CPU: 1 GHz Intel Pentium III or better
    • RAM: at least 512 MB
    • Hard disk: at least 200 MB free space
  • Software requirements:
    • Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP
    • Local users at the endpoints should be members of the local administrator's group.
    Data Fingerprint Tool system requirements
  • A PC running one of the following operating systems:
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional
    • Microsoft Server 2003 SP1
    • Microsoft Server 2003 R2

Policy Creation/Monitoring Station

  • Hardware requirements:
    • A PC running Microsoft Windows XP
  • Software requirements:
    • Microsoft GPMC
    • .NET Framework 2.0 (required for management console)