McAfee Secure Messaging Gateway

McAfee Secure Messaging Gateway

McAfee® Secure Messaging Gateway is an e-mail security solution that protects against spam, inappropriate content, phishing scams, worms, and known viruses using a single appliance. This dedicated appliance provides enough performance to meet the most demanding messaging security requirements. A single, unified management console (McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator®) is included for centralized management of all McAfee system security products from the desktop to the gateway, helping to lower your total cost of ownership.

Benefits:

• Comply with privacy regulations Automatically prevents violations of HIPAA, SOX, and other government regulations by blocking messages that contain private information
• Keep your email secure Secure Messaging Gateway's content filtering checks incoming and outgoing email to make sure malware stays out and sensitive information stays in
• Increase user productivity Block spam and other threats so that your users can be more productive
• Maintain business continuity Avoid network slowdowns and stoppages, and keep your business up and running by blocking spam, viruses and other malware
• Thwart information theft Phishing poses a real threat for information theft; by keeping phishing scams at bay with Secure Messaging Gateway, you can better prevent such losses
• Single console management Control, manage and report from a single console by using McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator with Secure Messaging Gateway and McAfee® VirusScan®
• Protects system integrity Prevent directory harvest attacks and other forms of abuse targeted at your messaging system

Features:

• Integrated email compliance The optional McAfee Email Compliance Module contains predefined content filters for HIPAA, GLB, and other regulations; it blocks or encrypts messages containing private information
• Email content filtering Secure Messaging Gateway's built-in email content filtering uses lexical scanning for email and more than 300 types of attachments to block or modify messages that contain specific words or phrases that violate content rules
• Solid anti-spam and anti-phishing technology The optional McAfee anti-spam module detects and blocks spam and phishing attacks using integrity analysis, heuristic detection, content filtering, blacklist and whitelist support, DNS block list support, and Bayesian filtering; real-time IP reputation filtering, powered by Postini Threat Identification Network (PTIN), blocks spam from known offenders
• Advanced anti-virus technology Protect against viruses and other threats, even those that are new and unknown.
• Blocks spam and phishing The optional anti-spam module uses highly sophisticated techniques to detect and block spam and phishing attacks, including integrity analysis, heuristic rules, content filtering, blacklists and whitelists, DNS lists, Bayesian filtering, and domain name reputation filtering
• High performance With Secure Messaging Gateway, you can scan SMTP traffic at 210,000 messages per hour with anti-virus configured; by using built-in load sharing you can take advantage of multiple appliances when greater performance is required
• Comprehensive, scalable management With Secure Messaging Gateway and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, you can centrally manage anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, anti-phishing, and Web filtering solutions for gateway devices and desktop systems
• Supports flexible policy management To accommodate departmental needs, Secure Messaging Gateway lets you configure different security policies to meet the requirements of these different groups; it can even use your existing LDAP directory

System Requirements:

Secure Messaging Gateway appliances are self-contained devices and do not have minimum software or hardware system requirements.

Operating System

• McAfee 3300 appliances

Download the McAfee Secure Messaging Gateway Datasheet (PDF, 964KB )