McAfee Messaging and Web Security Appliances - Email and Web Security-V5.0 Beta Refresh

New Product Features

The primary enhancements are:

• User interface.  The management user interface has been streamlined for greater efficiency and ease-of-use.  It no longer requires Java, which means customers will experience faster performance and will be able to manage the appliance from a variety of platforms.
• Improved performance. The ability of the appliance to handle large numbers of simultaneous connections has been improved, resulting in a greater ability for the appliance to deliver consistent and predictable performance for customers within the specified user range. 
• Roles based access control.  The administrator can assign administration duties to different people within the IT organization, giving large enterprises increased security and management control. Pre-defined administration roles are provided, for example: super-administrator, email-only administrator, web-only administrator, and report administrator.  Administrators can create custom administration roles to suit their needs.
• Advanced reporting. Easily customizable, faster reports:
  • Schedule reports to run on a regular basis
  • New report output formats – PDF, HTML, CSV
  • Send a report to one or more email recipients
  • Interactive drilldown options for easier investigation
  • Role-based access controls let designated users run reports even though they have no system configuration rights.
• MTA enhancements.  The message transfer agent (MTA) has been enhanced with features that will be appreciated by large enterprises, such as:
  • Reroute traffic on-the-fly based on criteria set by the administrator. 
  • Dynamic address stripping can stop sensitive internal topology data from leaving your perimeter. 
  • Track messages from the gateway to your quarantine making it easy to determine the final disposition of any given message.
  • Detailed logging provides data for analyzing both inbound and outbound traffic patterns.
• IPv6.  Support for IPv6 simplifies the job of managing node addresses in very large environments and removes the need to create complex network segmentation schemes.
• New Improved On Line Help.The information in the product guide has been incorporated into the On Line Help and it has also been improved for greater efficiency and ease-of-use.

SystemRequirements

Messaging and Web Security 5.0 Products Compatibility Matrix

• McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance (formerly Secure Internet Gateway) models 3000, 3100, 3200, 3300
• McAfee Email Security Appliance (formerly Secure Messaging Gateway) models 3300, 3400
• McAfee Web Security Appliance (formerly Secure Web Gateway) models 3300, 3400
• McAfee Data Loss Prevention Appliance models 3300, 3400

Data Fingerprinting Tool

• Microsoft Windows 2003 with Service Pack 1 or later
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2

Supporting Documentation:

Beta Refresh Release Documentation

• Release Notes
• Installation Guide
• Data FingerPrinting Tool Guide

Notes:

Customers can test this software in either of the following ways:

• Run in a VMware environment.  The beta package is available on a VMware format so it can be loaded into a VMware Server.
  • Download VMware Server from - http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
    
    
• Download to your existing McAfee appliance.  Please note the following important considerations before installing V5 beta software on your existing appliance:
  • McAfee Messaging and Web Security V5 can not be managed by ePolicy Orchestrator. However, the new, improved V5 user interface has been designed to look and operate like ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0 to facilitate administration by customers who are currently using ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0.  
  • Configurations and policies that you have created on your existing appliance cannot be migrated to V5 software.  You will need to recreate all these settings and policies.
  • V5 software will not run on McAfee eSeries appliances.