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Overview
McAfee Email Gateway consolidates inbound threat protection, outbound encryption, advanced compliance, data loss prevention, 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 as an integrated hybrid solution. It eliminates ineffective piecemeal defenses, simplifies multivendor security environments, and reduces operating costs — while significantly strengthening email security.
Email Gateway delivers:
Total inbound protection — Inbound protection goes beyond blocking spam. Email Gateway provides powerful antispam scanning technologies to identify and block incoming spam with over 99% accuracy. It also protects your network from malware, zero-hour threats, phishing, viruses, blended threats, directory harvest, denial of service (DoS), bounceback attacks, and spam surges.
Total outbound protection to keep your data secure — Available at no extra charge are encryption (push, pull, TLS, S/MIME, PGP) and built-in data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities that utilize the same text-matching dictionaries found in McAfee Data Loss Prevention — with the ability to scan over 300 document types. These compliance and DLP capabilities are fully used from the Email Gateway administrative 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, network, and web reputation service to identify email messages carrying malicious payloads.
Features & Benefits
Real-time Global Threat Intelligence defends against inbound and outbound malware and spam threats
Get quicker, accurate detection of spam, malware, malicious embedded URLs, zero-hour threats, and other email-borne threats with the network, file, web, and message reputation intelligence from the breadth of McAfee security devices around the globe. Get protected from directory harvest denial of service (Dos) bounceback and spam surges. A dual antivirus solution addresses defense-in-depth compliance requirements, while eliminating licensing costs and management with this built-in functionality. The second antivirus engine may be turned off, or turned on for exhaustive scanning or in optimized mode, where it scans only those that pass through the McAfee antivirus engine.
Use graymail filtering to further reduce unwanted email
Unwanted mail could be legitimate bulk mail that was once solicited by the user, but now no longer wanted (i.e., industry newsletters and notifications), and may represent a significant nuisance to recipients. By using graymail filters, administrators can set graymail policies for individuals or groups, and even permit end users to enable this capability to keep mailboxes clear of graymail.
Keep your emails from prying eyes, while keeping your deployment simple
Eliminate the need to source, manage, or integrate a separate encryption product. Built-in, policy-based email encryption supports a wide user base, and includes a combination of B2B (TLS, S/MIME, OpenPGP) and B2C (push, pull, push and pull) technologies. Enable your recipients to receive and reply to secure email, even if they do not have encryption capabilities in place.
Reduce risk of exfiltration by leveraging extensive built-in compliance templates
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 includes over 114 compliance templates, the same as those in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP), to support GLBA, HIPAA, SOX, and other compliance mandates.
Keep structured and unstructured data secure
Prevent data loss with the industry’s most extensive on-box email 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. Keep your data secure by filtering beyond Microsoft and PDF documents and scanning over 300 document types. 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.
Gain deployment flexibility for peace of mind
Reap the benefits of an integrated hybrid solution with Email Protection. It eliminate costs of paying for two solutions to cover your email security, eliminate the inefficiencies of a patch-worked hybrid solution, or take a step towards leveraging the benefits of a cloud-based solution. Choose Email Protection to implement an integrated hybrid solution that gives you the best of the Email Gateway appliance with McAfee SaaS Email Protection and Continuity to give you the best of both worlds, all through a single pane of glass management and reporting interface. Block malware and filter spam in the cloud, away from your network, to save bandwidth cost and protect sensitive data with on-premises Email Gateway (virtual appliance, hardware appliance, or blade server) for encryption, flexible policy creation, and data loss prevention.
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.
Virtual Appliance
These are minimum hardware requirements for the virtual appliance. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
You can use McAfee Email Gateway in a virtual environment with these platforms:
- VMware ESX 4.1 or later
- VMware Player
Hardware Appliances
A complete range of enterprise and medium-capacity appliances offers affordable protection and scalability for the most demanding business messaging environments.
Please see the McAfee Email Gateway Appliance Hardware Specifications sheet for additional details about the EG-4000, EG4500, EG5000, and EG5500.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 Named One of the 20 Coolest Cloud Security Vendors by CRN, 2013
Established security player McAfee has embraced cloud security that includes protection for email, web, and identity authentication traffic.
McAfee and McAfee Email Protection named as Industry Innovator by SC Magazine, 2012
What does characterize McAfee as an Innovator is its approach to the most important aspect of innovation: how one thinks. The Network Security Business Unit — the home of McAfee Email Protection — is solidly ensconced in the type of thinking process that results in innovative solutions to difficult, and occasionally obscure, information assurance challenges.
Forrester Research Named McAfee a Leader in "The Forrester Wave: Email Content Security, Q4 2012"
Premier analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. has named McAfee a leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Email Content Security, Q4 2012.” We consider this a testament to the strength, stability, flexibility, and effectiveness of McAfee’s email protection solutions.
CRN: McAfee One of 2012 Best Companies to Partner With
CRN listed McAfee among the best companies to partner with for 2012.
McAfee Positioned as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways, 2012
Leading analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has placed McAfee in the leaders quadrant in its "Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways" as published on August 15, 2012. We consider this a testament to the strength, stability, flexibility, and effectiveness of McAfee's email protection solutions.
McAfee Email Protection Gets 5-stars and SC Best Buy Recognition, 2012
The Holy Grail of IT products is one that is low cost, easy to use, and offers a rich feature set. McAfee Email Protection easily fits those criteria in the email security and content filtering space. Verdict: An absolutely brilliant product. We make it our Best Buy.
McAfee Named One of the 20 Coolest Cloud Security Vendors by CRN, 2012
The Intel-owned security company has been preaching cloud security measures since before the cloud truly formed. McAfee’s central cloud piece is the Cloud Security Platform, which secures content and data—e-mail, Web and identity—as it moves to and from the cloud.
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
Arab National Bank
Arab National Bank uses McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) software to manage endpoint protection across 5,500 endpoints.
Highlights
- Reduces manpower required to manage endpoint security from six people to two
- Accelerates deployment of data loss protection—70 percent faster than competitive solutions faster than competitive solutions
- Cuts administrative reporting from several days to minutes
- Saves $152,000 in reduced manual intervention, thanks to integration with third-party security solutions
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
MidWestOne Financial Group
McAfee Firewall Enterprise, McAfee Web Gateway, and McAfee Email Gateway provide the foundation for MidWestOne’s Internet security strategy.
Highlights
- Comprehensive inbound threat protection and outbound data loss prevention for 250 email users
- Strong antivirus protection for 550 desktops and laptops
- Centrally managed security infrastructure through “single pane of glass” with McAfee ePO software
- Significantly reduces helpdesk calls for spyware infections by half
- Creates an improved standing with auditors and regulators
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 Named a Leader in Email Content Security
December 19, 2012Topics : Email & Web Security
- 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)
Events
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- Keep Your Email Private and Your Data Secure
On Demand Webcast
Resources
Comparison of Leading Email Encryption Techniques
This specifications sheet introduces some common considerations and its benefits and challenges for each of the leading email encryption techniques available.
McAfee SaaS Email Protection & Continuity
For a technical summary on the McAfee product listed above, please view the product data sheet.
McAfee Email Gateway
For a technical summary on the McAfee product listed above, please view the product data sheet.
McAfee Email Gateway Hardware Appliance Specifications
For technical specifications on the McAfee product listed above, please view the product data sheet.
Solution Briefs
White Papers
Community
Forums
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Blogs
- How not to get hacked: Stop email-borne threats!
David Bull - May 15, 2013
Cyber-attacks making headlines these days have resulted in embarrassing tweets, website defacement, and even theft of intellectual property. What’s the common thread in many of these events? Often, the inbox of an innocent employee. Whether it’s a low-tech phishing attack or embedded links leading to advanced malware, email still remains the most vulnerable and direct Read more... - NCCDC 2013 – Red Team Recap
Jim Walter - May 07, 2013
This past April (4/19 to 4/21) I had the great pleasure and experience of joining the Red Team at 9th NCCDC competition. It was actually my 2nd year on the Red Team and 4th year to attend in total (I judged in 2010 and 2011). McAfee is actually a perpetual Read more... - Intel, McAfee Investing in Network Security; Strength through Acquisition
Pat Calhoun - May 05, 2013
Some days you just feel lucky. This is one of those days. Since I’ve been with McAfee, I’ve had the privilege of being part of some of the most innovative and exciting milestones in online security – and today’s news is icing on the cake. I am excited and honored to share that McAfee has Read more... - Top Five Requirements for Tomorrow’s Email Security – Webinar featuring Forrester Research
David Bull - April 22, 2013
When is the last time you evaluated your email security solution? In the past, spam was the most pressing concern – but now the requirements have changed. Email has evolved into a more vulnerable communication channel than anyone ever imagined. The era of simple spam protection is over – we’ve got that covered. Now, advanced malware and Read more... - Beat Malware Through Integration
Rick Simon - April 22, 2013
At RSA Conference in late February, McAfee announced the acquisition of sophisticated sandboxing technology and 38 product enhancements that together extend McAfee’s lead in protection against malware. During our pre-RSA press and analyst event, McAfee senior vice president Pat Calhoun also discussed at length an idea we call “comprehensive malware protection,” which includes five foundational Read more...