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McAfee Web ProtectionWeb security your way—SaaS, on-premises, or a hybrid combination

Key AdvantagesUltimate flexibility•All the features of McAfee Web Gateway on-premises appliances or VMware, and McAfee SaaS Web Protection and McAfee Web Filter for Endpoint in a single subscription

•Address current needs today, with the freedom to change in the future

•Predictable user-based sub-scription pricing, regardless of deployment method

Advanced security•As the number one-rated

malware protection solution, McAfee Web Protection uses the McAfee Gateway anti-malware engine, which offers a patent-pending approach to behavioral analysis

•Leverage the Security Connected approach from McAfee through McAfee®

ePolicy Orchestrator® (McAfee ePO™) software and McAfee Global Threat Intelligence

Complete inbound and outbound protection•Enforces an organization’s

Internet use policy with com- prehensive web filtering database

•Layered security provides immediate, effective protec- tion against malware and other hidden threats

•Mobile filtering for remote users•Controls for more than 1,000

web applications

Asthewebcontinuestogrowandevolve,web-bornemalwareattacksgrowandevolveaswell,threateningnetworksandcriticaldata.McAfeeLabsidentifiesmorethan100,000newpiecesofmalwareeachday.Asthelevelofriskcontinuestoincrease,organizationsaredemandingthebestwebsecurityavailabletobattlesuchgrowth.McAfeeunderstandsthesecurityneedsoftoday’sconnectedWeb2.0worldlikenoothervendorandofferstheindustry’smosteffective,provenproactivewebsecurity.

On-Premises, SaaS, or Hybrid Fortheultimateindeploymentflexibilityandtohelpfuture-proofyourinvestment,McAfeeoffersallfeaturesoftheMcAfeeWebGatewayandMcAfeeSaaSWebProtectionsolutioninasingleasolution:McAfeeWebProtection.Deployonlocationwithappliancesorinavirtualenvironment,inthecloud,orcombineoptionsforaddeddeploymentflexibilityandhighavailability—thechoiceisyours.Forexample,organizationscanoffloadportionsofwebtraffictothecloudduringpeaktimesforaddedhigh-availabilityperformanceorusethishybridmodelasacost-effectivefail-overoption.You’llgetaward-winningMcAfeeanti-malwareprotectionandcomprehensivewebfilteringwitheitheroption.SomeorganizationsevenincludeMcAfeeWebProtectionasanaddi-tionallayerofanti-malwaretotheirexistingsolution.

Advanced SecurityMcAfeeWebProtectionlayersnumerousthreatsecuritytechnologiestoprovidethemostadvancedprotectionfromzero-daythreatsandmaliciousexecutables.ThisenablesMcAfeeWebProtectiontooptimizesecurityonasingleplatformwithdifferent,yetcomplementary,technologies—somethingmanyorganizationswantfortheirdefense-in-depthsecurityapproaches.DeepcontentinspectionevenscansfilessuchasPDFsandgraphics,lookingforhiddenmalware.IndependentresearchershaveawardedMcAfeewebsecuritysolutionstopscoresforaccuratelydetectingandblockingmorethan99percentofmalware.Ouradvanced,layeredprotectionincludes:

• Proactive, behavioral analysis that opens content in real time for deep inspection—Asthenumberone-ratedmalwareprotectionsolution,McAfeeWebProtectionusesapatent-pendingapproachtobehavioralanalysis.Byscanningawebpage’sactivecontent,emulatingandunderstandingitsbehavior,andpredictingitsintent,McAfeeWebProtectionproactivelyprotectsagainstzero-dayandtargetedattacksastheyoccur.

• Comprehensive signature-based antivirus protection with real-time lookups—McAfeeGlobalThreatIntelligence™(McAfeeGTI™)filereputationwithreal-timelook-upcapabilitiesallowsMcAfeetechnologytoclosethegapbetweenvirusdiscoveryandsystemupdateprotection.

Fromwebfilteringandanti-malwarescanningtodeepcontentinspectionandgranularcontroloverhowWeb2.0sitesareused,McAfee®WebProtectioncombinesthesecurity,controls,anddeploymentflexibilityyouneed.Whetheryouarelookingforthecontrolofanon-premisessolution,theappealofSoftware-as-a-Service(SaaS),orwantahybridcombinationofthetwo,McAfeeWebProtectionempowersyoutodeployyourwebsecuritythewaythatbestfitsyourcurrentandchangingneeds.

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• McAfee GTI with web reputation and web categorization—McAfeeWebProtectiondeliversenhancedwebfilteringfunctionalityandsecuritythroughthepowerfulcombinationofbothreputationandcategory-basedfiltering.McAfeeGTIpowersMcAfeeWebProtection’swebfilteringtechnologies.McAfeeGTIcreatesaprofileofallInternetentities—websites,email,andIPaddresses—basedonhundredsofdifferentattributesgatheredfromthemassive,globaldatacollectioncapabilitiesofMcAfeeLabs.Itthenassignsareputationscorebasedonthesecurityriskposed,enablingadministratorstoapplyverygranularrulesaboutwhattopermitordeny—andcontinuestomonitorthoseentitiesovertime.

Mobile Filtering for Remote UsersAstheworkforcebecomesmoredistributedandmobile,theneedforwebfilteringandprotectiontoseamlesslytransitionfromtheofficetotheroadbecomesincreasinglyimportant.McAfeeWebProtectioncustomerscantakeadvantageofMcAfeeClientProxy,includedinMcAfeeWebProtection,tobothprotectandcontrolwebaccessformobileusers.Thisintegrated,gateway-awaresolutionintelligentlydirectswebtraffictoaMcAfeeWebProtectionsolution—eitheron-premisesorinthecloud—forfullpolicyenforcement.

Unified ReportingThemostpopularandrespectedsecuritymanage-menttechnology,theMcAfeeePOplatform,issupportedbyMcAfeeWebProtection.Asthesinglesourceforconsolidatedinformation,theMcAfeeePOplatformhelpsyouquicklyidentifyandmitigateproblemsandimprovecompliancemanagement.McAfeeePOsoftwaresupportsdetailedwebreportingthroughtheMcAfeeContentSecurityReporterextension.

McAfee Content Security ReporterMcAfeeContentSecurityReporterenablesorganizationstoaggregatedataacrossthedifferentwebprotectiondeliveryplatformsforaunifiedreportinginfrastructure.Itgivesyoutheinformationandtoolsyouneedtounderstandhowyourorganizationisusingthewebandhelpsyoucomplywithregulations,identifytrends,isolateproblems,documentinappropriatewebactivity,andtailoryourfilteringsettingstoenforceyourwebusagepolicies.Itcombinesdashboardviewsanddrilldownsintowebtrafficwithpower-fulofflineprocessing—everythingyouneedinoneeasy-to-usesolution.McAfeeContentSecurityReporteroffersanexternal,stand-alonereportserverdesignedtooffloadresourceintensivedataprocessingandstoragefromtheexistingMcAfeeePOsoftwareserver,enablingittoscaletomeetthereportingneedsofeventhelargestglobalcorporations.

Formoreinformationvisitwww.mcafee.com/websecurity.

The Growing Threat LandscapeToday’s web threats come in all shapes and sizes and are delivered in multiple ways—spam email links, advertisements, social media, and seemingly benign files and file types that your employees use every day. McAfee Web Protection has you covered from every angle.

•We look at every page, every file, and everything suspicious

•Spam URLs make up between 29 percent to 41 percent of all web threats around the world

•McAfee Labs identifies more than 100,000 new pieces of malware every day

(Source: McAfee Labs)

Figure 1. McAfee Web Protection enables ultimate deployment flexibility. Deploy on location with appliances or in a virtual environment, in the cloud, or combine options for added deployment flexibility and high availability—the choice is yours.

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