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McAfee SmartFilter

McAfee SmartFilter

Security and control for the Web 2.0 world

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Overview

McAfee SmartFilter is the intelligent web filtering software solution designed to prevent your employees from accessing sites that expose your organization to viruses, malware, and other security risks, while reducing legal liability, maximizing employee productivity, and preserving bandwidth for business-related activities.

SmartFilter delivers:

Industry-leading protection — Puts an end to malicious code and web-borne viruses that can enter the network when users unknowingly visit infected websites. SmartFilter uses McAfee TrustedSource Global Threat Intelligence technology to proactively block traffic to sources that may pose a security risk.

Reduced risk and increased productivity — Filters and monitors Internet use to control outbound web access and protect against web-based threats. SmartFilter helps you reduce legal liability, increase employee productivity, and preserve bandwidth for productive work.

Full flexibility — Includes predefined filtering policies for over 35 million blockable websites in more than 90 categories. Customize (add categories, create block/allow lists, exempt certain URLs, and more) as needed.

Features & Benefits

Get the industry’s best protection

Control use of the web while preventing viruses and malicious software from invading your network through employee downloads with the powerful combination of reputation- and category-based filtering powered by McAfee TrustedSource. Advanced global intelligence continually identifies and protects against malicious sites as well as those with malicious intent — even before traditional assessments are available.

Ensure powerful reporting

Understand how your organization is using the web and then quickly drill down to identify trends, isolate problems, document inappropriate web activity, and tailor your filter settings to enforce web usage policies.

Match your exact infrastructure needs

Choose from more than 30 supported platforms. For on-box implementations, no hardware or network configuration changes are needed. For off-box installations, select from in-line or pass-by options.

Adjust as needs change

Customize policies by user, group, IP, and IP range. Filter by time of day, day of week, file type (JPG, MP3, and more), URL, and HTTP/HTTPS traffic. Choose to deny access, allow, coach, or let authorized users override filtering policy.

System Requirements

These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

McAfee SmartFilter & SmartFilter, Education Edition

  • Supported operating systems
    • Microsoft Windows Vista
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional
    • Microsoft Windows 2003
    • Microsoft Windows 2000
    • Solaris 10, 9, 8
    • Red Hat ES 5.1, 5, 4, 3
  • Supported platforms
    • Check Point Firewall-1
    • Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances
    • Cisco Catalyst Switches
    • Cisco Content Engine
    • Cisco Integrated Service Routers
    • Cisco PIX Firewall
    • Cisco Routers/IOS Firewall
    • Microsoft ISA Server 2006, 2004, 2000
    • Nortel ACC
    • Nortel ASF
    • Novell Border Manager
    • SonicWALL
    • Squid Proxy Server
    • Stratacache
    • Sun Java System Web Server
    • 3Com SuperStack 3

McAfee SmartFilter — Web Inspector

  • Supported operating systems
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional
    • Microsoft Windows 2003
    • Microsoft Windows 2000

Partial List of Supported OEM Partners

  • Astaro
  • Bascom
  • Blue Coat
  • Brightfilter
  • Check Point
  • Computer Associates
  • Detica
  • FaceTime
  • Internetsafety.com
  • M86
  • Purewire
  • Webroot
  • Wedgenetworks

Customer Stories

Baptist Health

Baptist Health protects patient data and enforces internal Internet-use policies with McAfee Firewall Enterprise and McAfee SmartFilter, keeping employees productive and compliant.

Highlights
  • McAfee Firewall Enterprise secured the network, including critical business applications
  • McAfee SmartFilter allowed enforcement of Internet usage policy, ensuring efficient and productive web access from users on the inside

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