Managing the New Perimeter

Protect your data wherever it exists

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Overview

Building the impenetrable IT environment was always a challenge, even when there were predefined boundaries. Welcome to the new world of computing without boundaries, including a complete mix of personal and business data on company systems. How do you delineate between what is valuable and needs to be protected? McAfee Risk Management solutions focus on the applications and data that must be protected. Customize the security of your personal digital assistants (PDAs) and removable media, secure unstructured data, and handle the complexity and scale that comes with this new generation of computing.

Key Benefits

  • Protect against all inbound threats
    Identify and block incoming spam with over 99% accuracy while protecting against viruses, malware, phishing, directory harvest, denial of service, bounce-back attacks, zero-hour threats, and spam surges. TrustedSource, our global threat correlation and intelligence technology, helps make it happen.
  • Stop outbound data loss
    Prevent data loss with the most extensive on-box email data loss prevention in the industry, featuring fingerprinting.
  • Enable productive use of Web 2.0
    Use Web 2.0 with confidence within your organization by leveraging strong inbound and outbound filtering of multiple web protocols, including deep inspection of encrypted traffic.
  • Simplify and improve protection
    Automatically protect data, identify and control critical data, safeguard information sent to third parties, secure your enterprise from the risk of data loss, and prove compliance with less effort, while saving time and money with centralized deployment, management, and reporting.
  • Protect a broad range of data on all devices
    Provide consistent protection for data on desktops, laptops, mobile devices, removable media and portable storage devices. Secure a broad range of information, including customer data, intellectual property, legal and financial records, and employee records.
  • Streamline firewall management
    Put firewall rules in the proper business context to greatly reduce troubleshooting efforts. Simplify rule optimization, policy configuration, and compliance auditing with centralized management and reporting.
  • Reduce your attack surface area
    Stop the latest threats and eliminate unwanted traffic with reputation-based Global Threat Intelligence.
  • Get reliable, real-time protection
    Block unwanted and risky applications; use real-time, protocol-based rate limiting to apply application, protocol-type, and port-based bandwidth controls; and prioritize business-critical traffic. Rely on dynamic threat and vulnerability updates for complete, uninterrupted protection.

Products

Data Protection

McAfee Total Protection for Data
McAfee Total Protection for Data

McAfee Total Protection for Data offers strong encryption, authentication, data loss prevention, and policy-driven security controls to help block unauthorized access to your sensitive information — anytime, anywhere.

Email & Web Security

McAfee Email Gateway
McAfee Email Gateway

McAfee Email Gateway delivers total email protection for enterprises. It integrates inbound and outbound defenses, streamlines compliance, simplifies administration, and lowers operating costs.

McAfee Web Gateway
McAfee Web Gateway

McAfee Web Gateway offers powerful, proactive protection against zero-day threats, spyware, and targeted attacks.

Endpoint Protection

McAfee Host IPS for desktop
McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktop

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktop helps keep your business safe and productive by monitoring and blocking unwanted activity with a comprehensive three-part threat defense — signature analysis, behavioral analysis, and system firewall — all easily managed from one central console, the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform.

Network Security

McAfee Firewall Enterprise
McAfee Firewall Enterprise

McAfee Firewall Enterprise is a next-generation firewall that restores control and protection to your network.

McAfee Network Security Platform
McAfee Network Security Platform

McAfee Network Security Platform is the industry’s most secure network intrusion prevention system (IPS). Backed by McAfee Labs, it protects customers on average 80 days ahead of the threat. It blocks attacks in real time, before they can cause damage, and protects every network-connected device. With Network Security Platform, you can automatically manage risk and enforce compliance — while improving operational efficiency and reducing IT efforts.

Security Management

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) is a key component of the McAfee Security Management Platform, and the only enterprise-class software, to provide unified management of endpoint, network, and data security. With end-to-end visibility and powerful automations that slash incident response times, McAfee ePO software dramatically strengthens protection and drives down the cost and complexity of managing risk and security.

Services

Data Loss Prevention Assessment

Detect and prevent the unauthorized transmission or disclosure of sensitive information. McAfee Foundstone reduces your risk of exposure by identifying sensitive data copied or currently in transit from its original intended container.

Incident Management Check

Build a better, more effective incident response and management program. McAfee Foundstone analyzes the gaps in your incident management program and offers recommendations to improve your emergency response protocol.

Vulnerability Management Check

Assess your vulnerability management program. McAfee Foundstone analyzes the gaps in your program to ensure you have the right balance of people, process, and technology.

Resources

Reports

Risk & Compliance Outlook 2011

In this global study, independent research firm Evalueserve examines the dynamic risk and compliance market, including the state of the industry, the challenges faced by enterprises, and emerging trends that will impact both consumers and vendors.

Community

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Blogs

  • RDP+RCE=Bad News (MS12-020)
    Jim Walter - March 14, 2012
    See March 15 and 16 updates at the end of this blog. —————————————————-   The March Security Bulletin release from Microsoft was relatively light in volume. Out of the six bulletins released, only one was rated as Critical. And for good reason. MS12-020 includes CVE-2012-0002. This flaw is specific to the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) present on Read more...
  • An Update on DNSChanger and Rogue DNS Servers
    Jim Walter - March 06, 2012
    In late 2011, the FBI released documents and data focusing on “Operation Ghost Click.” This malicious operation, leveraging a variety of DNSChanger-type malware, was defined by the FBI as an “international cyber ring that infected millions of computers.” Associated malware samples and events can be traced back several years, and multiple platforms were targeted. To this day many remain Read more...
  • McAfee Q4 Threats Report Shows Malware Surpassed 75 Million Samples in 2011
    David Marcus - February 21, 2012
    Today we released our Fourth Quarter 2011 Threat Report, revealing that malware surpassed the our estimate of 75 million unique malware samples last year. Although the release of new malware slowed a bit in Q4, mobile malware continued to increase and recorded its busiest year to date. Malware The overall growth of PC-based malware actually Read more...
  • Cultural Security: Promoting Security Policies Using Organizational Culture
    Steven Fox - September 06, 2011
    Most of us refer to security policies in much the same way as we refer to our car manuals – when something unexpected happens.  We know these documents have useful information.  However, their utility is tied to situations where answers do not present themselves readily. According to Chris Noel, SVP of Product Management at ANXeBusiness, Read more...
  • Building an Arsenal of Best-in-Breed Database Security Solutions
    Eric Schou - August 19, 2011
    Visit any news site on the Web, and undoubtedly you’ll come across a barrage of articles publicizing the details of yet another data breach. With the prominence of SQL injection attacks, and malicious insiders and hackers exploiting sensitive data stored on unpatched and vulnerable databases, enterprise organizations have found themselves reevaluating their security strategies. Following Read more...