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McAfee SaaS Total Protection

McAfee SaaS Total Protection

Complete email and web protection, endpoint security, and vulnerability scanning

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Overview

McAfee SaaS Total Protection provides a single, integrated suite with all the benefits of McAfee’s SaaS email, endpoint, and web protection solutions. By running security as a cloud-based solution, you can reduce your capital investment, eliminate onsite administration, and reallocate IT resources to projects better aligned to your initiatives. With SaaS Total Protection, you get immediate, up-to-the-minute threat protection to ensure your data, systems, and networks are instantly and always secure. Easy on the budget, SaaS Total Protection delivers peace of mind.

Most diverse Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) portfolio — McAfee offers the most diverse set of Security SaaS solutions available from a single vendor, covering email, endpoint, and web security. Reporting and management is hosted on McAfee’s infrastructure.

Host-based and cloud-based web filtering — Protect against malicious and suspicious sites and stop malware and other web-borne threats.

Cloud-based email filtering and continuity — Stop email-borne attacks and spam before they reach your network, enforce email policies to prevent sensitive data loss, and get access to the most robust protection and recovery.

Email server security — SaaS Total Protection includes McAfee Security for Email Servers to prevent spam and filter messages containing unwanted content from damaging your email servers.

Simplified security management — McAfee SecurityCenter provides total visibility with 24/7 access to an easy-to-use, online dashboard to view user protection, customize security policies, and generate and download reports.

Match your endpoint protection needs with the right McAfee security suite

Features & Benefits

Get instantly accessible and always-on protection

Secure your organization within minutes. With McAfee Security-as-a-Service solutions, there’s no lag time while you order and set up servers, train staff, and deploy software on every machine and endpoint.

Make updates with minimal effort

Keep desktops, servers, and networks protected against ever-evolving security threats. McAfee SaaS Total Protection is updated in real time, without interruption to your users, and it requires minimal administrative effort by your IT staff.

Protect against viruses, spyware, and adware

Detect and stop viruses, spyware, adware, and other potentially unwanted programs before they can install and compromise your desktops, laptops, and servers.

Integrate firewall protection

Safeguard your desktops with built-in firewall protection, block unwanted Internet access to and from your computers, and keep hackers and identity thieves out of your business.

Leave the management to us

Trust McAfee to handle your security. McAfee Security SaaS solutions run in our data centers, which relieves you of the responsibility for managing the entire infrastructure. And because we develop our software, we have the knowledge and capacity to run it more efficiently for you.

System Requirements

These are minimum system requirements. Recommended requirements are in parenthesis, where applicable. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

System Requirements

  • Intel Pentium processor or compatible architecture
  • Internet connection: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or higher
  • RAM: 512 MB (1 – 2 GB recommended)
  • Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
  • 256-color or higher resolution VGA monitor

Endpoint Protection: Virus, Spyware & Firewall Protection (Client Computers)

  • Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows XP Home or Professional with SP2 or higher (32-bit and 64-bit)

Servers

  • Windows 2008 Server (32-bit and 64-bit): Standard, Enterprise, Small Business, or Essential Business
  • Windows 2003 Standard Server: Enterprise, Web Edition, or Small Business

Browser Protection (Client Computers)

  • Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows XP Home or Professional with SP2 or higher (32-bit and 64-bit)

Web Filtering

  • Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows XP Home or Professional with SP2 or higher (32-bit and 64-bit)

Email Security Service

  • You will need your own email domain, such as yourdomain.com; a static IP address or a hostname that resolves to an IP address; and a dedicated email server, either in-house or hosted by an ISP. Activation starts with a simple mail exchanger (MX) record redirection. You can begin filtering using pre-established default settings, or you can easily fine-tune the settings to your specifications through our intuitive web-based administration console.

Email Servers

  • Microsoft Exchange 2007
    • x64 architecture-based processor with EM64T or AMD64 support
    • RAM: 2 GB
    • Disk space: 740 MB
    • Microsoft Exchange 2007
    • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (64-bit) with SP1
    • Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Exchange 2003
    • Intel Pentium or compatible 133-MHz processor
    • RAM: 256 MB
    • Disk space: 740 MB
    • Microsoft Exchange 2003 with SP1 or higher
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (32-bit)
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (32-bit)
    • Internet Explorer 7.x or higher
  • Microsoft Exchange 2000
    • Intel Pentium or compatible 133-MHz processor
    • RAM: 128 MB (256 MB recommended)
    • Disk space: 740 MB
    • Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server with SP3
    • Internet Explorer 7.x or later

Videos and Demos

Demos

McAfee Partner SecurityDashboard

The McAfee Partner SecurityDashboard allows you to access a single, secured partner portal to remotely manage the security of multiple customers.

McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite - Installation Demo

Learn how to install SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite (formerly McAfee Total Protection Service) by first removing existing anti-virus software, adjusting security settings, and ensuring cookies are enabled.

McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite Demo

Learn how SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite (formerly McAfee Total Protection Service) provides integrated protection against viruses, spyware, hackers, ID theft, and web threats.

McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Suite SecurityCenter Demo

Tour McAfee’s SecurityCenter and learn how this online management tool automatically updates all your systems with the latest security software.

Videos

Awards / Reviews

CRN Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendors of 2010
McAfee, Inc. Named One of "Coolest Cloud Security Vendors" by Everything Channel's CRN

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 01, 2010 - McAfee, Inc. today announced that Everything Channel's CRN has named it one of the “20 Coolest Cloud Security Vendors.” The top Cloud Security Vendors include CRN’s top 20 picks of the coolest cloud security vendors helping to foster the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) phenomenon and drive it forward in 2010.

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    Simon Hunt - November 11, 2010
    Following on from my last post where I was talking about efforts we were putting in place to stifle the use of the http://mcaf.ee secure short URL provider by spam merchants, I thought I’d share with you some interesting statistics of a recent spam attack. I pulled this pretty graph out of our Google Analytics Read more...
  • McAfee No. 1 in Web Security Appliances
    Tim Roddy - August 20, 2009
    With Web applications and Web 2.0 beginning to take center stage in most enterprises, it’s not surprising that IT efforts and budgets to secure this Web traffic are beginning to reflect this shift. IDC notes that the Web security market is expected to nearly double from 2008 to 2013 in their recently released Worldwide Web Read more...
  • McAfee to acquire MX Logic
    Archive - July 31, 2009
    I am very excited to announce a critical milestone in the growth of our Security-as-a-Service business. McAfee has agreed to acquire MX Logic. MX Logic is a leading provider of cloud-based security services including email and web filtering, and email archiving and continuity. Adding MX Logic’s solutions to McAfee will provide us with the most Read more...
  • McAfee Harnesses the Cloud with Security-as-a-Service
    Melissa Siems - July 20, 2009
    This is a very exciting time at McAfee. Cloud computing is providing new ways for us to help our customers save time and money. Our industry leading global threat intelligence technologies reside in the cloud and we deliver our applications, over the internet, in a Security-as-a-Service model.Our customers can save time by using our Security Read more...
  • It’s time to revamp your Defense-in-Depth strategy.
    Archive - March 06, 2009
    Up until now if you asked any security professional or consultant to provide you a best practice strategy for securing your enterprise, they would most likely recommend that you follow the Defense-in-Depth(DiD) strategy.Although this has proven to be a sound strategy for the most part, as a security practitioner, I would have a tough time making that recommendation to customers that are adopting a Cloud Computing model.
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