Protect Information from Insider Threats

Defend Your Critical Data

You don’t have to look far for the next big threat to your data and network. Company insiders can steal sensitive data and sabotage assets quickly, easily, and with greater stealth than an external attacker. Careless and negligent insiders also pose a threat, even if their intentions are not malicious.

Threats can stem from simple activities like uploading, emailing, and posting sensitive data, or manipulating data within a mission-critical application or database — insider activities that most security controls don’t detect. Nation-states and organized crime groups have also registered the value of the insider connection, finding that their return on investment is far better when they recruit an attacker from the inside rather than hack from the outside.

To combat this threat, you need a new level of visibility into your organization, driven by security controls that work together across endpoints, networks, and data. Leveraged together, these controls result in strong incident detection, protection, and response capabilities.

In this solution guide, learn how McAfee can help enterprises defend critical assets from insider threats. The strategy includes installing data loss prevention controls on the network and desktop; leveraging solutions that monitor how information is moving around the network and how it is being manipulated on the desktop and moved to thumb drives; monitoring how users interact with information; employing controls that protect information at rest, in motion, and in use; guarding data on all endpoints, even mobile devices; and stopping data leaks on social media platforms.

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Technology Blueprints

Assessing Vulnerabilities

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.

Enabling BYOPC (Bring Your Own PC)

McAfee enables secure and compliant network access for employee-owned PCs and Macs, aligns network access for these devices with company security policies, provides a process for handling out-of-compliance systems, and ensures that these systems are monitored to protect the overall security posture of the enterprise.

Enforcing Endpoint Compliance

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.

Enforcing Security on Smartphones and Tablets

The McAfee EMM platform blends mobile device management with policy-managed endpoint security, network access control, and compliance reporting in a seamless system, integrating smartphones and tablets into enterprise networks and security management.

Ensuring Continuous Compliance

McAfee interconnects components to allow you to define compliance benchmarks and audit for compliance, detect and prevent compliance drift, manage the workflow associated with audit remediation, and provide central management and reporting for the entire solution.

Essential Protection for PCs

McAfee endpoint security solutions provide a layered defense to protect PCs, providing antimalware and antivirus defenses, encryption, access control, and safe web browsing features.

Fighting Rootkits

McAfee fights rootkits by using real-time memory and CPU protection, protecting against known and unknown attacks, and getting beneath the operating system.

Investigate Data Breaches

McAfee enables enterprises to collect, analyze, and preserve security forensic information. With a solution that includes content- and context-aware SIEM, McAfee provides alerts to security events, as well analysis on how the attacked occurred, affected users, and compromised data — so you can better understand the severity of a security breach.

Protecting Application Servers

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.

Protecting Databases

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.

Protecting Email

The McAfee solution layers cloud-based protection in front of on-premises equipment to enable detection of spam, phishing, and viruses; data loss prevention; and compliance while ensuring business continuity and helping to reduce the size of your email processing footprint.

Protecting Email Servers

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.

Protecting File Servers

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.

Protecting Intellectual Property - Email

To block outsiders attempting to steal your valuables, McAfee offers robust antispam and antimalware, with real-time threat assessments by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, minimizing the chance that your users will receive or click on phishing emails or malicious attachments that could open your infrastructure to a targeted attack.

Protecting Web Servers

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.

Securing and Controlling Laptops

Provide effective security for laptops. McAfee protects laptops with a solution that integrates antimalware, data loss prevention, data protection, safe web browsing features, and complete visibility and control that enables IT to deploy security updates on laptops, regardless of the Internet connection.

Securing Cloud-Based Communications

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.

Securing Removable Media

McAfee helps organizations understand and monitor how employees are using USB sticks and other portable storage devices. Our solutions to secure removable media include antivirus and antimalware protection, data loss prevention, data encryption, and controls that help implement effective policies to protect critical information.

Securing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Conquer performance issues related to implementing antivirus solutions in virtualized desktop infrastructures (VDI). McAfee offers a practical way to efficiently integrate antivirus in VDI by offloading virtual desktop antivirus operations to a centralized system and integrating VDI security with the broader enterprise security infrastructure.

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