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McAfee targets SMEs with Security Appliance
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 05 November 2009, 17:24 IST
California: McAfee has announced the launch of Email and Web Security Appliance 5.5 to help protect customers against the latest email and Web-borne threats, manage Web and email traffic and usage, and reduce system administration requirements. Designed for small and midsized businesses (SMBs), the solution provides comprehensive email and Web security in a single, integrated appliance.
This appliance from McAfee links to global threat intelligence from Artemis and TrustedSource technologies, which is considered as comprehensive threat intelligence system in the world. This appliance can be clustered to share scanning responsibilities for improved resiliency, scalability and consolidated management and reporting. The installation process is simplified with Auto-detects network settings an easy to use configuration wizard. This appliance also let company change their policies in a convenient way.
URL filtering is also included in the 5.5 release. Integrated into the appliance, the URL filtering includes more than 90 Web site categories providing granular Web usage monitoring and policy enforcement. The URL filtering also includes the McAfee Web Reporter package for simplified viewing of Web utilization and trends.
"In addition to their market leading security effectiveness, these appliances also provide customers with email and Web usage policy enforcement capabilities, compliance tools, informative dashboards and comprehensive reporting," said Dave Macey, General Manager of the Network Security Business Unit, McAfee. "McAfee's combined intelligence capabilities add an essential layer of protection to guard against today's most advanced threats and work by accumulating data from millions of sensors, creating a real-time profile of all suspicious activity and content, and then watching for deviations based upon expected behavior."
McAfee claims that Email and Web Security Appliances offer better than 99 percent spam detection accuracy and are backed by one of the best anti-malware detection technology in the industry. By integrating with McAfee's real-time, cloud-based global threat intelligence, the appliances provide increased visibility into Web and email-based threats, protecting customers more efficiently and reducing both security acquisition and operational costs.
"The Email and Web Security Appliance is our primary line of defense and has provided solid protection from viruses on inbound email," said Roger Norfolk, GroupWise Administrator and Antivirus Technology Instructor, Mercy Hospital. "Last month it stopped over 3.3 million pieces of spam, 76 infected emails and 32 Potentially Unwanted Programs with a legitimate email count of 175,935. In a year it has blocked over 17 million messages, with very few false positives."
