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Overview
McAfee Email Gateway consolidates inbound threat protection, outbound data loss prevention, encryption, advanced compliance, and administration into a single, easy-to-deploy and user-friendly appliance. As a comprehensive email security solution, Email Gateway can stand alone or work in tandem with McAfee SaaS Email Protection & Continuity. It eliminates ineffective piecemeal defenses, simplifies multivendor security environments, and reduces operating costs — while significantly strengthening email security.
Email Gateway delivers:
Total inbound protection — Email Gateway provides the most complete protection available against inbound threats. Powerful antispam scanning technologies identify and block incoming spam with over 99% accuracy. And it protects your network from viruses, malware, phishing, directory harvest, denial of service (DoS), bounceback attacks, zero-hour threats, and spam surges.
Total outbound protection — Available at no extra charge are push, pull, and TLS encryption and built-in data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities that utilize the same text-matching dictionaries found in McAfee Data Loss Prevention. These DLP capabilities are fully administrable from the Email Gateway user interface or McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). Using sophisticated content-scanning technologies, multiple encryption techniques, and granular, policy-based message handling, Email Gateway prevents outbound data loss and keeps sensitive data secure.
Simple, powerful administration from within McAfee ePO — With Email Gateway, administrators can deliver superior email protection and document it with customizable, enterprise-class reporting, exportable report logs, real-time dashboards, and alerts. Email Gateway combines performance, scalability, and stability with a flexible delivery model to ensure maximum ROI.
A virtualized solution — The Email Gateway appliance is also available as a virtual appliance, so you can reap the benefits of virtualization. With lower costs than a physical appliance, a virtual appliance also provides maximum flexibility, including the ability to consolidate solutions on a single server.
Enhanced security powered by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) — McAfee GTI is a comprehensive cloud-based threat intelligence service. Integrated into McAfee security products, it works in real time, 24 hours a day, to protect customers against cyberthreats across all vectors — file, web, message, and network. McAfee GTI offers the broadest threat data, most robust data correlation, and most complete product integration in the industry. McAfee’s GTI network allows enabled products to evaluate threats on multiple vectors in real time, leading to faster identification of threats and higher capture rates. Email Gateway uses the message reputation service to identify email messages carrying malicious payloads.
Features & Benefits
Protect against all inbound threats
Get powerful antispam technology that identifies and blocks incoming spam with over 99% accuracy while protecting against viruses, malware, phishing, directory harvest, denial of service (DoS), bounceback attacks, zero-hour threats, and spam surges.
Gain real-time Global Threat Intelligence
Leverage network, file, and message reputational analysis to apply threat intelligence from McAfee security devices around the globe for quicker, more accurate identification of spam, malware, malicious embedded URLs, and other threats.
Keep structured and unstructured data secure
Prevent data loss with the industry’s most extensive on-box email data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities. Fingerprinting, lexical analysis, and clustering techniques supplement keyword and pattern matching to detect both structured and unstructured data. Policy-based message handling then prevents outbound data loss. These industry-leading email content analysis tools provide the tightest control of sensitive content in any form to aid compliance with many state, national, and international regulations. McAfee Email Gateway can also integrate with McAfee DLP Prevent to enhance the solution’s ability to correctly identify sensitive data and assist in its safe handling, minimizing risk.
Simplify email security management
Take advantage of flexible policy creation and enforcement, plus enterprise-class logging and real-time dashboard and reporting capabilities, to simplify administration and compliance workloads while lowering costs. Email Gateway supports GLBA, HIPAA, SOX, and other compliance mandates.
Stop viruses and malware
Gain integrated protection against email-borne viruses and malware with the McAfee Email Anti-Virus Engine. For enterprises that want to deploy a second antivirus vendor at the gateway, McAfee Email Gateway can also run an additional third-party antivirus to help meet compliance requirements.
Support a broad user base
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 can receive and reply to secure email.
Reap the benefits of a hybrid solution
Choose McAfee Email Protection to implement a hybrid solution that combines the Email Gateway appliance with McAfee SaaS Email Protection & Continuity service. Filter spam in the cloud to save bandwidth cost and protect sensitive data with on-premise appliances which provide data loss prevention, flexible policy creation, and encryption.
System Requirements
Deployment flexibility is a hallmark of McAfee Email Gateway. You can deploy it as a virtual machine, hardware appliance (four different appliance sizes), or on a blade server architecture that sits in front of an existing email server.
These are minimum hardware requirements for the virtual appliance. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
- VMware Server 1.0.6 or higher
- VMware ESX 3.5 or higher
- vSphere 4.1
A complete range of enterprise and medium-capacity appliances offers affordable protection and scalability for the most demanding business messaging environments.
Model EG-4000
- Form Factor: 1U rack mount
- Processor: Dual Core
- RAM: 4 GB
- Interfaces: 2 x 10/100/1000
- RAID level: N/A
- Hard disk: 500 GB SATA
- Power supply: Single
Model EG-4500
- Form Factor: 1U rack mount
- Processor: Dual Core i3
- RAM: 4 GB
- Interfaces: 2 x 10/100/1000
- RAID level: RAID 1
- Hard disk: 2 x 300 GB SAS
- Power supply: Single
Model EG-5000
- Form Factor: 1U rack mount
- Processor: Quad Core Xeon
- RAM: 6 GB
- Interfaces: 2 x 10/100/1000
- RAID level: RAID 1
- Hard disk: 2 x 300 GB SAS
- Power supply: Redundant
Model EG-5500
- Form Factor: 2U rack mount
- Processor: 2 Xeon Quad Core
- RAM: 12 GB
- Interfaces: 2 x 10/100/1000
- RAID level: RAID 10
- Hard disk: 6 x 300 GB SAS
- Power supply: Redundant
Blade Server
The McAfee Content Security Blade Server is a self-contained device. For additional product specifications, see the Content Security Blade Server data sheet. Watch the demo and learn how Content Security Blade Server solves the complex problems of infrastructure security by using a single appliance from a single vendor.
Demos / Tutorials
Quick Tips for Email Gateway
For guidance on how to use this McAfee product, watch the Quick Tips video listed above.
Awards / Reviews
McAfee Email Protection Named a Finalist (Best Email Security 2012) by SC Magazine
McAfee Email Protection was selected as a finalist for SC Magazine’s Best Email Security award. The category highlights products that address the ability to exchange email messages securely, ensure the privacy of messages, and more. McAfee Email Protection was evaluated on its effectiveness, manageability, non-intrusiveness, ease of use, and other factors that impact the implementation.
McAfee Email Security Products Receive VBSpam Awards, 2011
Virus Bulletin awarded McAfee SaaS Email Protection, McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance, and McAfee Email Gateway with VBSpam Awards, noting the products’ high spam catch rates and low false positive rates.
McAfee Email Protection Earns Prestigious 5-Star Rating from SC Magazine, 2011
With five stars across the board in every product rating category, McAfee Email Protection was awarded the top 5-Star Rating by SC Magazine – measured on its features, ease of use, performance, documentation, support and value for the money.
McAfee Email Gateway Wins Best Email Security Solution, 2009
SC Magazine says McAfee Email Gateway is “a true market leader.”
McAfee Email Gateway Receives VB Spam Gold Award, 2009
In a recent test, Virus Bulletin says, “This was the only product in the test that was configured to scan the contents of incoming email during the SMTP transaction and block those emails it was certain were spam. ... Helped by this two-layered blocking, the product’s spam catch rate of 99.60% was higher than that of any other.”
McAfee, Inc. Wins Best Security Company at SC Magazine Event, 2009
McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced that it has won three SC Magazine Awards in the following categories, Best Security Company, Best Endpoint Security Solution, and Best Email Security Solution. The awards were announced at the annual SC Awards Dinner and Presentation at the Hilton San Francisco.
Customer Stories
A.T.U
A.T.U safeguards employee web and email communications with centrally managed McAfee security solutions.
Highlights
- Reduced influx of spam by 99% and maximized employee time and productivity
- Proactively protected against malicious emails, viruses, and malware
- Enabled smooth, easy-to-manage implementation and testing process
American Casino & Entertainment Properties
McAfee provides email infrastructure protection for American Casino & Entertainment Properties, dramatically reducing spam.
Highlights
- Successfully blocked more than 95% of inbound email traffic identified as spam or viruses
- Allowed managers to apply policies for outbound messaging, redirecting messages as needed
- Enabled employees to safely send encrypted data
- Dramatically decreased IT administration from two hours each day to less than two hours each month
Cardnet
Cardnet eliminates malware infections with comprehensive network, email, and endpoint security from McAfee.
Highlights
- Total absence of known infections of any kind
- Protected the entire IT infrastructure
- Maintained IT security with a staff of three, versus 20 or more if the McAfee suite was not in place
County of Orange, California
Comprehensive McAfee web and email security solutions help County of Orange dramatically reduce spam levels and lower email administration costs.
Highlights
- Provided unified threat management and integration between all security products, enabling an end-to-end solution with enterprise-class security
- Correctly identified 97% of email as spam and dropped it at the edge of the network
Cox Communications
Cox Communications reduces spam volume with McAfee Email Gateway.
Highlights
- Generated zero false positives
- Rejected 90,000 connections from obvious spam-sending sources each hour
- Reduced total email volume by 40%
- Eliminated the need for additional Exchange servers or McAfee Email Gateway appliances
- Slowed spammers’ bandwidth capabilities
FW Murphy
FW Murphy dramatically lowers spam volumes and streamlines email administration with McAfee Email Gateway.
Highlights
- Blocked and quarantined emails that previously clogged the server and user inboxes
- Enabled easy-to-monitor email traffic with only legitimate inbound and outbound messages allowed, expediting business-centric emails to customers
- Concentrated IT resources completely on strategic and business-enabling activities
Georgia Dept. of Human Resources
McAfee Email Gateway protects the Georgia Department of Human Resources from inbound threats and outbound data loss, while easing IT administration.
Highlights
- Blocked spam at the gateway, resulting in higher performance and throughput
- Saved IT time and resources
- Dramatically increased business and IT productivity
- Eased compliance with regulatory and IT policies used to review trends in mail flow
Hawaii Pacific Health
Hawaii Pacific Health selects McAfee to stop inbound and outbound email threats.
Highlights
- Protected 4,500 email boxes and addresses from spam and viruses
- Delivered 99% spam detection accuracy
- Reduced appliance CPU cycles and bandwidth consumption with TrustedSource Global Reputation Intelligence
- Prevented outbound distribution of sensitive data, such as Social Security numbers
- Accommodated special-case configurations for small groups and individuals
Public Utility District, United States
McAfee strengthens the network perimeter for this large public utility district.
Highlights
- Prevented 30,000 – 50,000 unwanted emails from entering the network each day
- Increased user productivity without jeopardizing security
- Provided strong security for both corporate IT and critical infrastructure networks
- Protected against blended Internet and insider threats
- Improved efficiency for the IT department, reducing administration, overhead, and costs
School City of Hammond
School City of Hammond enlists McAfee to strengthen web and email controls.
Highlights
- Blocked more than 99% of spam and viruses from entering the network
- Improved bandwidth usage, since spam is caught at the gateway
- Simplified email administration so the IT department could focus on other issues
- Prevented students from circumventing the web filtering system by accessing anonymizer sites
Swiff-Train
McAfee Email Gateway streamlines email administration at Swiff-Train, saving time for IT staff
Highlights
- Saved 4,000 hours annually dealing with spam
- Blocked 99% of spam at the gateway, decreasing mail volume and lowering bandwidth and storage costs
- Automated the administration of email, freeing the IT department for other business priorities
Teachers Credit Union
Teachers Credit Union relies on McAfee email protection to safeguard outbound emails and prevent malicious or unwanted emails from reaching inboxes.
Highlights
- Accurately detected malicious senders and eliminated more than 95% of spam and viruses weekly
- Encrypted and secured outgoing email messages
- Simplified email administration to less than an hour per month
- Enabled the IT department to direct its attention to other issues
News / Events
News
- McAfee, Inc. Positioned as a Leader for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention in Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant
August 12, 2011Topics : Data Protection, Email & Web Security
- McAfee, Inc. Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Secure E-mail Gateways
August 12, 2011Topics : Email & Web Security
- McAfee, Inc. Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Secure E-mail Gateways
May 4, 2010Topics : Email & Web Security, Security-as-a-Service (SaaS)
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Last week was very busy. We provided a bit more detail on the first Intel/McAfee product, we earned a 5-Star product rating, we enhanced our channel partner incentives, we talked about the next generation data center opportunity and we were recognized as a “leader” for a very key security opportunity. Intel Inside, according to Renee James, Read more... - U.K. Tax Scams on the Horizon
David Marcus - March 30, 2011
As the saying goes: Death and taxes are the only constants in life. This adage can be applied to scams on the Internet as well. Every tax season we can count on scams like these to raise their heads and try to bilk users out of their identity information and hard-earned money. A few of Read more... - Zeus and SpyEye: Old Dogs Repeat Old Tricks
Pedro Bueno - February 15, 2011
There is a lot of buzz in the security community lately about the merger of two widespread password-stealing malware families, Zbot (maker of Zeus) and SpyEye. Some reports says that the Zbot source code was given to the SpyEye crew. Others say that Zeus was sold, and some even say that nothing really happened–this was Read more...