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Overview
McAfee Web Gateway — the #1 rated anti-malware solution for Web 2.0 threats — analyzes the nature and intent of all content and code entering the network via requested web pages, providing immediate protection against malware and other hidden threats.
Unparalleled threat protection — Powered by layered security that combines local and cloud-based protection, you can count on McAfee Gateway Anti-Malware Engine for automatic malware protection and up-to-the-moment McAfee global reputation intelligence to stop zero-day threats, spyware, and targeted attacks — without a signature — before they can enter your network. Granular control stops the threat, such as an infected iframe, while still enabling access to the rest of the site. McAfee combines this local, real-time intent analysis with comprehensive McAfee anti-virus protection to quickly block known viruses, giving organizations complete coverage and optimal performance.
Granular application control — Get point-and-click control for nearly 1,000 web applications and granular function control within those applications. From social and streaming media to file sharing and anonymizing, enable the applications you want, manage how they are used, and control what information is shared.
Powerful safeguards against data loss — Scan user-generated content on all key web protocols, and prevent confidential or suspect information from leaking out of your enterprise through blogs, wikis, and other Web 2.0 applications and sites.
Easy, efficient management — With Web Gateway, you can stop deploying and managing multiple standalone web products. Web Gateway integrates numerous protections, from web filtering and anti-malware to SSL scanning and content control, all with a simplified management footprint and a flexible policy engine. Therefore, you can share a single security policy across protections and protocols, and meet the needs of your entire organization, enhancing protection while saving time and money.
Agile infrastructure and performance — Web Gateway includes a high-performance, enterprise-strength proxy that provides the flexible authentication, administration, and authorization controls required by today’s most-demanding enterprises and service providers. Numerous deployment options — from appliances and blades to VMware — ensure Web Gateway scales to your environment needs.
Features & Benefits
Get the industry’s best protection
Use proactive intent analysis to filter out malicious content from web traffic in real time. By scanning a web page’s active content, emulating and understanding its behavior, and predicting its intent, McAfee Web Gateway proactively protects against zero-day and targeted attacks. Outbound malware detection identifies and isolates existing infections phoning home, and prevents sensitive data from leaving the organization through Web 2.0 sites.
Use layered security to enhance protection
Web Gateway combines local protection from McAfee Gateway Anti-Malware Engine, its powerful, proactive intent analysis, with cloud-based McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) to provide advanced protection. For both URL categorization and security-focused web reputation, choose between on-premise and cloud lookups, or opt to use a combination of both for optimal protection and performance. Additional protection through McAfee file reputation cloud-based virus lookup capabilities enable Web Gateway to provide greater protection while optimizing security on a single platform.
Extend management with a powerful policy engine and granular application control
A powerful policy engine enables unmatched flexibility and control in creating and applying policy, supporting the multi-tenancy needs of the largest enterprises and service providers. Web Gateway also extends this flexible control to web applications. Beyond simply allowing or denying access, Web Gateway provides granular function control within nearly 1,000 web applications, including popular social and streaming media, file sharing, and anonymizing applications.
Block data loss
Keep confidential information from leaking out of your organization by scanning user-generated content on all key web protocols. Have advanced data loss needs? Rely on Web Gateway to integrate with McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions.
Protect encrypted traffic
Close the new backdoor through your security barrier with fully integrated malware detection, SSL inspection, and certificate validation directly on the Web Gateway appliance.
Leverage powerful reporting tools and customizable dashboards
Identify your organization’s usage trends, isolate problems, document inappropriate web activity, and comply with regulations with powerful reporting capabilities and integration with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform. Use this information to tailor filtering settings to best enforce your web-usage policies.
System Requirements
Model WG4000
- Form factor: 1U rack mount
- RAM: 4 GB
- Processor: Dual core
- Processor cache: 1 MB
- Disk: 500 GB SATA
- RAID level: N/A
- Power supply: 350 W
- Interfaces: 3 x 10/100/1000
Model WG4500
- Form factor: 1U rack mount
- RAM: 4 GB
- Processor: Dual core
- Processor cache: 4 MB
- Disk: 2 x 300 GB SAS
- RAID level: Yes
- Power supply: 400 W
- Interfaces: 3 x 10/100/1000
Model WG5000
- Form factor: 1U rack mount
- RAM: 6 GB
- Processor: Quad core
- Processor cache: 12 MB
- Disk: 2 x 300 GB SAS
- RAID level: Yes
- Power supply: 2 x 650 W (hot swap)
- Interfaces: 4 x 10/100/1000
Model WG5500
- Form factor: 2U rack mount
- RAM: 12 GB
- Processor: 2 x 6 core
- Processor cache: 12 MB
- Disk: 6 x 300 GB SAS
- RAID level: Yes
- Power supply: 2 x 750 W (hot swap)
- Interfaces: 4 x 10/100/1000
Demos / Tutorials
McAfee Web Gateway - Deep Dive
Learn how McAfee Web Gateway helps prevent web-based risks introduced by Web 2.0 technology.
Tutorials
Awards / Reviews
McAfee Web Protection Named a Finalist (Best Web Content Management 2012) from SC Magazine
Products in this category provide web content filtering for laptops, desktops, and optionally servers. They may block or filter objectionable websites and content, and enlist blacklist, whitelist, or both to update the vendor-provided data upon which the solution is based.
McAfee Web Protection Named a Finalist (Best Anti-Malware Gateway 2012) from SC Magazine
Products in this category generally are appliances. Their purpose is to act as gateways, usually at the perimeter of the enterprise, protecting against various types of malware attempting to enter the enterprise from outside.
McAfee Web Anti-Malware Module, Gateway Edition - Test Results
McAfee Web Gateway uses next-generation proactive intent analysis to filter out malicious content from web traffic in real time.
McAfee Wins 2010 SC Magazine Awards in Multiple Categories
Wins Include Best Anti-Malware Solution and Best Enterprise Security Solution
SAN FRANCISCO, March 05, 2010 - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) has been recognized with SC Magazine’s 2010 Awards in the following categories: Best Anti-Malware solution and Best Security Solution. The announcement was made yesterday at the SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco.
McAfee Wins Information Security Readers’ Choice Award
McAfee Web Gateway earned a Readers’ Choice Award from “Information Security Magazine” and SearchSecurity.com. Web Gateway won the gold medal in the Security Gateway Products category, placing above Trend Micro and Websense for the top position.
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
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
NYC Department of IT and Telecommunications
NYC Department of IT and Telecommunications uses McAfee for for vulnerability management, endpoint encryption, and other areas of security functionality.
Highlights
- Increased protection with a savings of $18 million
- Provided centralized control across highly distributed IT environment
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
SIM University
SIM University uses McAfee Firewall Enterprise to protect its data center.
Highlights
- Provide a multilayered defense against security threats
- Amplify network bandwidth and dramatically improve throughput
- Increase availability of learning management system to more than 99.9 percent
- Free up IT administration time of security staff
Swiss Reinsurance Company
Swiss Reinsurance Company relies on McAfee Web Gateway to protect employees worldwide from malicious web content.
Highlights
- Protected 10,000 worldwide users with dual anti-virus engines
- Applied the same anti-virus and content inspection rules to SSL encrypted HTTPS traffic
- Delivered comprehensive and combined reporting for anti-malware/anti-virus and URL filtering solution
- Saved administrative overhead through common and easy-to-use Web GUI
Walnut Valley Unified School District
Walnut Valley Unified School District blocks web-based threats with McAfee Web Gateway.
Highlights
- Prevented students from using encrypted traffic and anonymizers to circumvent the web filtering system
- Enabled school to receive E-Rate funding
- Made it easy to implement user-based web usage policies and to grant temporary or permanent exceptions
- Provided granular reporting and audit capabilities, including tracing user activity and trends
News / Events
News
- McAfee Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway Magic Quadrant
June 6, 2011Topics : Email & Web Security
- McAfee Web Gateway Achieves Best Web-borne Malware Detection Rates in Comparative Review
March 16, 2011Topics : Email & Web Security, Security-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- McAfee Named a Finalist in 15 Categories of SC Magazine 2011 Awards
November 11, 2010Topics : Email & Web Security, Risk & Compliance
- McAfee and Riverbed Expand Partnership to Provide Integrated Security and WAN Optimization in One Appliance
September 28, 2010Topics : Email & Web Security
- McAfee, Inc. Provides Increased Protection Against Malware and Botnets
May 18, 2010Topics : Email & Web Security
- McAfee Wins 2010 SC Magazine Awards in Multiple Categories
March 5, 2010Topics : Email & Web Security, Endpoint Protection, Security Management
- McAfee Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway Magic Quadrant
January 12, 2010Topics : Email & Web Security
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