McAfee Event Receiver

McAfee Event Receiver

Easy, highly distributed deployment collecting up to 20,000 events per second

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Overview

McAfee Event Receiver appliances are responsible for the collection of log and event information from hundreds of third-party devices including firewalls, IDS/IPS devices, UTMs, switches, routers, applications, servers and workstations, identity and authentication systems, vulnerability assessment scanners, and more. McAfee Event Receiver uses a variety of collection methods including passive log collection, authenticated log collection, CEF, OPSEC, SDEE, XML, ODBC, as well as an encrypted collection validated to FIPS 140-2 Level 2.

Robust collection, powerful correlation — When a McAfee Event Receiver collects an event, it parses all relevant details into a fully normalized event taxonomy, and then provides full correlation against all events to detect larger incidents. McAfee Event Receiver correlates events collected by other distributed receivers for system-wide threat detection.

Flexible collection architectureMcAfee Enterprise Security Manager supports fully centralized “all-in-one” event collection and management, or fully distributed event collection using dedicated Event Receiver appliances, rated for several thousand to tens of thousands of events per second.

High reliability — Deploy McAfee Event Receiver redundantly for maximum reliability without any risk of data loss.

McAfee Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for SIEM

Features & Benefits

Get immediate access to data

Preserve and store all details of parsed and correlated events in a highly indexed database for fast retrieval and analysis.

Leverage flexible deployment options

Make highly distributed deployment easier and more cost effective with virtual appliances.

Retain and collect large amounts of security data

Collect over 20,000 events per second with a single McAfee Event Receiver. Every Event Receiver caches all collected data locally to preserve data in the event of a network communication error or outage.

System Requirements

Hardware SpecificationsERC-4600ERC-3450ERC-2600ERC-1250
Description McAfee Event Receiver collects third-party logs, events, and data for correlation and analysis by McAfee Enterprise Security Manager McAfee Event Receiver collects third-party logs, events, and data for correlation and analysis by McAfee Enterprise Security Manager McAfee Event Receiver collects third-party logs, events, and data for correlation and analysis by McAfee Enterprise Security Manager McAfee Event Receiver collects third-party logs, events, and data for correlation and analysis by McAfee Enterprise Security Manager
Collection Rates 20,000 events per second 15,000 events per second 10,000 events per second 5,000 events per second
Analytical Performance N/A N/A N/A N/A
Local Storage 3 TB 1.8 TB 1.8 TB 1 TB

Demos / Tutorials

Demos

Built for big security data, McAfee Global Threat Intelligence for McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) puts the power of McAfee Labs directly into the security monitoring flow using McAfee’s high-speed, highly intelligent security information and event management (SIEM) solution.

Awards / Reviews

Gartner
McAfee Positioned as a Leader by Gartner in MQ for SIEM Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

The security information and event management (SIEM) market is defined by the customer's need to analyze security event data in real time for internal and external threat management, and to collect, store, analyze and report on log data for regulatory compliance and forensics. The vendors that are included in Gartner’s analysis have technologies that have been designed for this purpose, and they actively market and sell these technologies to the security buying center.

SC Magazine Awards 2012
McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Gets 5-Star Rating by SC Magazine

The McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is able to gather, store, and analyze logs and data from a large amount of sources and then correlate events based on rules, possible risk, or historical trends.

Customer Stories

McAfee

McAfee integrates NitroSecurity products into its portfolio, improving its SIEM offering.

Highlights
  • Significantly shortens time to analyze security events from four to six days to less than 10 minutes
  • Decreases time to produce PCI compliance reports from eight to 12 hours to 10 minutes
  • Saves administrative time and manual maintenance while eliminating unnecessary activities
  • Facilitates disaster recovery and allows for proper use of virtual machines
  • Improves the organization’s overall security posture in the industry

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Focus on 5: Threat Intelligence SIEM Requirements

McAfee spoke with customers about integrating SIEM with Threat Intelligence and how it helped their effort to mitigate bad actors.

Focus on 5: SIEM Requirements

Learn about the top five issues with SIEM: Big Security Data, Content and User Awareness, Dynamic Context, Solution Customization, and Business Value.

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Blogs

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