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McAfee Firewall Enterprise
(Sidewinder)
A next-generation firewall with multilayer security
Firewall management costs are exploding while archaic protection technologies fail to stop an onslaught of new threats. McAfee Firewall Enterprise appliances provide powerful centralized management and reporting tools to ease planning, troubleshooting, and configuration, while global reputation technology reduces up to 70 percent of unwanted traffic and blocks attacks before they occur.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
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Streamline firewall management
Put firewall rules in the proper business context to greatly reduce troubleshooting efforts; simplify rule optimization, policy configuration, and compliance auditing with centralized management and reporting -
Reduce your attack surface area
Stop the latest threats and eliminate unwanted traffic with reputation-based global threat intelligence, configurable application-level protection, encrypted traffic inspection, intrusion prevention, anti-virus, and content filtering -
Improve business agility and reduce costs
Gain visibility into network usage, enable faster response times to network outages, and implement new applications faster; use fewer appliances and reduce maintenance costs
Features:
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Proven platform
High-performance stateful application inspection is proven in the most demanding environments, including numerous Fortune 500 and government organizations; deployment options include physical, virtual, and rugged appliances -
Optimized management
Centrally manage firewalls and generate reports; create rules and selectively apply anti-virus, IPS signatures, URL filtering, and more from a single screen; correlate firewall rules to users and applications to ease planning and troubleshooting -
Unparalleled protection
Filter unwanted traffic using TrustedSource™ reputation and global threat intelligence; block traffic from countries you don't do business with; add application-layer and encrypted traffic visibility to stop attacks via email, Web 2.0, SSL, and VoIP
Description:
Protecting networks against the evolving threat environment has never been more challenging. Networks and connectivity keep growing. And new threats combine into blended attacks that simultaneously exploit a variety of vulnerabilities. Worse yet, these attacks are coming from both outside and inside the network, and even through encrypted protocols.
McAfee Firewall Enterprise offers unprecedented levels of threat protection. Advanced capabilities, such as reputation-based global intelligence, configurable application-level protection, encrypted traffic inspection, intrusion prevention, anti-virus, and content filtering, block attacks before they occur.
Yet even with all this functionality, Firewall Enterprise is still easy to administer, with centralized firewall management and reporting and user-friendly rule-creation capabilities. Three additional products simplify management and help you respond more quickly to the needs of your business:
- McAfee Firewall Profiler, sold separately, takes a feed from McAfee Firewall Enterprise and instantly analyzes this information to provide visibility into how firewall rules interact with and impact the network. Profiler dramatically reduces the time needed to solve firewall-related network or application outages from hours to minutes, turning substantial manual efforts into a few simple clicks.
- McAfee Firewall Reporter, included, turns audit streams into actionable information. This award-winning security event management (SEM) tool delivers central monitoring plus correlated alerting and reporting to help meet all major regulatory requirements, including PCI DSS, GLBA, HIPAA, SOX, and FISMA.
- McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Center, sold separately, offers centralized firewall policy management for multiple Firewall Enterprise appliances.
Firewall Enterprise is ideal for businesses of all sizes. We have models ranging from our entry-level model 410 to our multi-gigabit enterprise-class 5U model 4150. Delivery options include standard, multi-firewall, and rugged physical appliances, as well as virtual appliance offerings.
System Requirements:
See the Firewall Enterprise solution brief for specifications.