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“Our experience with McAfee Web Gateway version 7 is extremely positive. It allows for additional flexibility and granular control over the policies that we create. This will ultimately allow us to achieve enhanced performance from the existing infrastructure in place as we can tune our policies to ensure the filtering decision is made in fewer steps.”

—Tristan Hoar, Service
Birmingham, 185,000 Users

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Overview

From cross-site scripting to malicious scripts embedded in PDF documents, the majority of today’s malware is sophisticated and often designed to evade signature-based protection. In the ever-changing battle against malware, there is one web gateway that lives up to its number one rated anti-malware status—McAfee Web Gateway.

Web Gateway is the first line of defense for any enterprise. This next-generation web gateway empowers organizations to enable employee access while greatly reducing risk with an advanced security approach. This approach combines the industry’s most powerful, local intent analysis with cloud-based protection, powered by McAfee Labs.

This chart illustrates sample malicious traffic data from a large financial institution. The majority of today's malware no longer fits in the “executable” category traditionally covered by signature-based solutions, only 30% in this example. McAfee Web Gateway covers the full malware spectrum with advanced, real-time intent analysis.

McAfee combines its local intent analysis with several cloud-based technologies—all powered by McAfee Labs.

  • McAfee Artemis technology, with real-time virus look-up capability, closes the gap between virus discovery and system update/protection. Combined with McAfee Web Gateway local intent analysis, these technologies together enhance protection while optimizing security on a single platform with different yet complementary technologies—a valuable asset for defense-in-depth security approaches.


  • McAfee’s real-time web reputation technology constantly assesses the legitimacy and risk of Internet entities. Based on hundreds of different attributes gathered from the massive, global data collection capabilities of McAfee Labs, Web Gateway is able to infer the likelihood of malicious intent, protecting users from unwanted risk and emerging threats.

McAfee Web Gateway delivers the deployment flexibility and performance needed by web-centric organizations, along with the scalability to easily support hundreds of thousands of users in a single environment.  Web Gateway offers:

  • Enterprise Scalability and Performance
    • 64-bit operating system
    • Advanced architecture and connection handling
    • Streaming proxy support: RTSP Proxy
    • Additional access control and bandwidth savings for streaming and reduced latency

  • Flexible Delivery
    • Numerous deployment options from explicit proxy and WCCP support to transparent bridge and router modes
    • A family of appliances for all performance needs, VMware support, and blade deployment options
    • Multiple web security components managed through a single solution

McAfee Web Gateway offers an advanced rules-based policy engine that enables flexible policy creation based on an organization’s workflows and requirements. This rules-based approach enables optimal policy flexibility and control. A truly enterprise-focused web gateway must enable the exceptions and the enterprise with flexibility and granular control—Web Gateway delivers.

Simple block or allow policy will not suffice in a highly-connected Web 2.0 environment. Web Gateway empowers organizations to enable or disable specific functionality as needed, controlling who uses a web application, and how it is used, ensuring allowed traffic is scanned and safe.

With Web Gateway, you can allow access to Facebook and Instant Messaging (IM) attachments without concern. IM attachments are scanned for malware and securely enabled.

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