Data centers are the operational backbone of your organization, storing sensitive data and providing business-critical services. But what makes data centers so essential to your business also makes them a prime target for threats.
Until now, protecting data centers has typically required implementing numerous, complex point controls that are expensive and don’t work together. The Security Connected approach from McAfee recognizes the need for data center initiatives to leverage cost-effective security that is agile enough to defend against new threats and targeted attacks, support virtualized and cloud services, and generate frequent reports to demonstrate compliance — all while minimizing downtime.
In this solution guide, McAfee outlines the framework for implementing data center security that ensures business agility, allows streamlined security management, promotes data center availability and integrity, and optimizes protection with efficient solutions that minimize operational costs. Through this approach, McAfee can help companies securely adapt to the changing face of data centers, as consolidation, virtualization, and cloud platforms become more widespread.
McAfee integrates data and processes to make vulnerability management more effective and efficient. Our approach combines asset discovery and management, comprehensive vulnerability scanning, flexible reporting, and remediation workflows into a single vulnerability assessment solution.
The McAfee solution is multifaceted, integrated, and built on the real-time sharing of information.
Address the challenge of supporting unmanaged endpoints such as smartphones, tablets, and employee-owned laptops. McAfee helps enterprises implement a network access architecture that can effectively handle both managed and unmanaged clients, rogue devices, and various user privileges — enforcing endpoint policies across all devices to ensure compliance.
McAfee fights rootkits by using real-time memory and CPU protection, protecting against known and unknown attacks, and getting beneath the operating system.
The McAfee solution has two primary components: McAfee Firewall Enterprise and McAfee Network Security Platform. The McAfee Firewall and the IPS appliance both have add-on features that can optimize your visibility into the network. McAfee SIEM and other optional products help extend visibility and analytics to more aspects of network traffic.
The McAfee solution includes McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, McAfee Application Control, McAfee Change Control, and McAfee Policy Auditor. Each control can be implemented standalone and thus allows an easy entry with minimal dependencies.
McAfee safeguards mission-critical application servers with a security solution that protects against malware, vulnerabilities, and exploits; enforces change management processes; prevents the installation of unauthorized applications; and manages compliance.
The McAfee approach to database security monitors database activity and changes, offers protected auditing tools, enables virtual patching to avoid database downtime, and provides compliance and regulatory templates.
McAfee products provide a multi-layered email security solution managed by a single console for the visibility and control needed to effectively protect against emerging email threats.
File servers hold sensitive data and require security controls that guard against data-stealing malware and unauthorized system changes. McAfee protects file servers with a solution that includes antimalware and antivirus protection, change monitoring and enforcement, dynamic whitelisting, network intrusion protection, and data loss prevention.
McAfee protects the network perimeter with a solution that integrates firewall and network intrusion prevention. It effectively inspects inbound traffic at the network edge; leverages real-time file and network connection reputation data from McAfee Global Threat Intelligence; enforces policies; implements comprehensive antivirus, antispam, and encryption technologies; and inspects for emerging malware, zero-day attacks, botnets, denial-of-service attempts, and advanced targeted attacks.
Improperly secured VoIP and SIP servers can compromise your voice network. Address the security implications of rolling out a VoIP infrastructure with a McAfee solution that guards against denial-of-service attacks, remediates SIP vulnerabilities, secures VoIP servers, blocks malware, safeguards against eavesdropping, and keeps your network up and running.
McAfee solutions will help you understand your web server infrastructure and protect each web server against the vulnerabilities, attacks, and threat agents that could disrupt it.
The McAfee solution provides real-time protection against attacks on your DHCP servers through multiple levels of protection. McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, McAfee Application Control, and McAfee Change Control are deployed directly on the DHCP servers. In addition, McAfee Policy Auditor can be used to perform regularly scheduled security audits to ensure that security policies applied to the DHCP servers are always being enforced. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) connects all of these elements into a single management environment, so you can view status and monitor events within one console.
Explore and embrace new options for using the cloud. McAfee technologies secure cloud-based communications with a risk-based approach that helps businesses to safely use web and email channels, protect against data leakage and intellectual property loss, and reduce support and audit costs.