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Overview
McAfee offers the advanced security, control, and flexibility organizations need to take full advantage of the web.
Unparalleled threat protection — The #1 rated antimalware solution for web threats, McAfee Web Gateway analyzes the nature and intent of all content and code entering the network from requested web pages, providing immediate protection against malware and other hidden threats. Powered by layered security that combines local and cloud-based protection, you can count on Web Gateway for instant, advanced protection to stop zero-day threats, spyware, and targeted attacks — without a signature. Learn more about Web Gateway’s latest threat protection enhancements that provide state-of-the-art behavior-based emulation and detection techniques.
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
Deployment flexibility is a hallmark of McAfee Web Gateway. You can deploy it as a virtual machine, hardware appliance, or on a blade server.
Requirements for setting up a virtual appliance
- VMware ESX or VMware ESXi (VMware Workstation version 5.5 or later is not supported, but can be used for testing purposes.)
- Virtual machine host system with the following specifications:
- CPU: 64-bit capable
- Virtualization extension: VT-x/AMD-V
- Virtual machine with the following specifications:
- Memory: 4 GB
- Hard disk space: 200 GB
- CPU cores: 2 (minimum)
Appliances
A complete range of enterprise- and medium-capacity appliances offers affordable protection and scalability for the most demanding business environments.
- 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 Content Security Reporter Demo
McAfee Content Security Reporter delivers unified and detailed insight across threat vectors and malicious content that targets organizations via the network, email, and the web. A rich and flexible range of tools enables administrators to understand threats and trends and match this insight with action.
McAfee Web Gateway Demo
With today’s increasingly sophisticated threat landscape, organizations need to use a layered security approach. Discover how McAfee’s award-winning Web Gateway uses multiple technologies, working together to offer comprehensive web protection.
Deep Dive Into Web Gateway
Learn how McAfee Web Gateway helps prevent web-based risks introduced by Web 2.0 technology.
Tutorials
Awards / Reviews
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 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
Flughafen München GmbH
McAfee secures Munich Airport with Web Gateway.
Highlights
- Secure Internet access
- Secure use of social media
- Increase in overall performance without additional license costs
- Central administration
- Secure integration of clients
- Integration of SSL client certificates
McAfee (Web Gateway)
The McAfee Global Security team enthusiastically embraces its new web gateway solution and appreciates the benefits of its feature-rich, advanced technology — and looks forward to scaling up and exercising its capabilities more fully.
Highlights
- Provides centralized management for distribution of policies and configurations
- Protects employees by blocking unsafe and inappropriate content
- Allows granular policy creation and deployment capabilities allow human resources (HR) to custom-tailor content access for different business units and job functions
- McAfee Global Threat Intelligence provides real-time feeds to McAfee Web Gateway about emerging threats and proactively blocks malicious sites and content
- Enables business security for environments that need Web 2.0 access and use of personal mobile devices
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
Events
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FAQ
Reports
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...