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McAfee Email Gateway
(Formerly Ironmail)
Total email protection for enterprises
The scale and diversity of email-borne security threats continue to increase. McAfee Email Gateway integrates comprehensive inbound threat protection with outbound data loss prevention, advanced compliance, detailed reporting, and simplified administration. You gain enterprise-class features and performance that scale to meet the most demanding workloads—all with minimal administrative overhead.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Protect against all inbound threats
Identify and block incoming spam with over 99 percent accuracy while protecting against viruses, malware, phishing, directory harvest, denial of service, bounceback attacks, zero-hour threats, and spam surges; TrustedSource™ helps make it happen - Stop outbound data loss
Prevent data leakage with fingerprinting, lexical analysis, and clustering techniques that supplement keyword and pattern matching to detect both structured and unstructured data; policy-based message handling then prevents outbound data loss - Simplify email security management
Take advantage of flexible policy creation and enforcement, and enterprise-class logging and reporting capabilities to simplify administration and compliance workloads—and significantly reduce costs; GLBA, HIPAA, and SOX are all supported
Features:
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TrustedSource global reputation intelligence
Count on the world's most precise and comprehensive Internet host reputation system; TrustedSource continuously monitors and characterizes Internet senders through a global network of more than 10,000 sensors in 82 countries -
McAfee Email Anti-virus
Gain integrated protection against email-borne viruses and malware -
Integrated encryption
Get policy-based email encryption that uses a combination of B2B (TLS, S/MIME, and OpenPGP) and B2C (push and pull) technologies to ensure that even recipients without encryption capabilities are able to receive and reply to secure email -
Webmail protection
Extend integrated security to Outlook Web Access, iNotes, and other common webmail applications -
Image analysis
Detect and enforce your policies for pornographic images in both inbound and outbound messages -
Backscatter protection
Identify and block false non-delivery notices forged by viruses and spammers -
Pre-built dictionaries and document training tools
Jumpstart your data loss prevention efforts by helping the gateway automatically learn which types of data and documents are sensitive, and which aren't
Description:
Email is arguably today’s most indispensable communications medium and one of the most business-critical services. It also presents an incredible security challenge to protect the enterprise from external attacks and prevent internal data loss via email.
McAfee Email Gateway integrates comprehensive inbound threat protection with outbound data loss prevention, advanced compliance, detailed reporting, and simplified administration.
McAfee Email Gateway comprises:
- TrustedSource™ global reputation intelligence is the service cornerstone of all McAfee gateway security solutions. The world’s most precise and comprehensive Internet host reputation system, TrustedSource continuously monitors and characterizes Internet senders through a global network of more than 10,000 sensors in 82 countries.
- McAfee Email Gateway appliances combine inbound threat protection, outbound data loss prevention, advanced compliance, and granular policy creation in a hardened, tightly integrated platform that’s easy to deploy and maintain. A complete range of enterprise (E-class) and medium-capacity (S-class) appliances offer affordable protection and scalability for the most demanding business messaging environments.
Add-on products within the comprehensive McAfee Email Gateway family include:
- McAfee Email Gateway Encryption provides policy-based email encryption to automatically encrypt email at the gateway, ensuring that sensitive data stays secure and that even recipients without encryption capabilities are able to receive and reply to secure email.
- McAfee Email Edge Gateway appliances are placed at the mail system perimeter to address the issue of rising spam volumes, relieving downstream processing loads and reducing archiving requirements.
- McAfee Email Gateway Control Center appliance can be used to centrally manage multiple gateway appliances.
- McAfee Email Gateway Quarantine Server appliance provides consolidated quarantine services for multiple gateway appliances.
System Requirements:
McAfee Email Gateway is delivered as a hardened appliance that sits in front of your existing mail server, providing protection from inbound email-borne threats and outbound data leakage.
