McAfee Email Gateway provides sophisticated content scanning technologies, multiple encryption techniques, and granular, policy-based message handling prevent outbound data loss and simplify compliance.

Administrators have the flexibility they need to create policies to fit their business, increasing the solutions performance. A single management console with enterprise-class logging and reporting capabilities simplifies administration and compliance workloads to significantly reduce costs.

McAfee Email Gateway provides:

• Total inbound protection – It identifies and blocks incoming spam with over 99 percent accuracy while providing integrated protection against viruses, malware, phishing, directory harvest, denial of service, and bounceback attacks. It prevents zero-hour threats and dramatically reduces the impact of spam surges through a potent combination of Dynamic Spam Classifier and Threat Response Updates with TrustedSource global, multi-protocol reputation intelligence.
  
• Total outbound protection – Fingerprinting, lexical analysis, and clustering techniques supplement keyword and pattern matching to provide comprehensive detection of both structured and unstructured data. The gateway accurately identifies regulated content (HIPAA, SOX, GLBA); personally identifiable information such as credit cards, SSNs, and other customer and employee data. Unstructured data and intellectual property such as source code, patents, financial information, and business plans can also be detected and acted upon. Upon detection, it supports a wide range of policy-based actions including forced encryption, alerting, re-routing, quarantining, blocking, and other custom actions.
  
• Total administrative empowerment – McAfee Email Gateway helps administrators deliver the best possible email protection, and document it with enterprise-class reporting, exportable report logs, real-time dashboards, and alerts. It combines performance, scalability, and stability with a flexible delivery model to ensure maximum ROI with minimum administrative overhead.

Core capabilities include:

• Anti-spam protection with over 99 percent spam detection accuracy, made possible by the unique combination of local network information with TrustedSource global reputation intelligence. The gateway’s anti-spam capability handles spam surges and can help reduce archiving, malware cleanup and bandwidth costs by as much as $300,000 annually for a 1,000-employee organization.
  
• Anti-virus protection based on the McAfee Email Anti-virus engine. For enterprises wishing to deploy a second anti-virus vendor at the gateway, McAfee Email Gateway can also run Authentium anti-virus.
  
• Data loss prevention (DLP) and Advanced Compliance that integrates keyword and pattern matching with advanced document compliance based on fingerprinting, advanced lexical analysis, and clustering—all included in the base solution price. Gateway-to-gateway encryption• with TLS, S/MIME and OpenPGP engines all included in the basic subscription price.
  
• Webmail protection that extends integrated security to Outlook Web Access, iNotes and other common webmail applications. Image analysis• that provides complete detection and policy enforcement for pornographic images in both inbound and outbound messages.
  
• Backscatter protection that identifies and blocks false non-delivery notices forged by viruses and spammers.
  
• Pre-built dictionaries and document training tools jumpstart your data loss prevention efforts by helping the gateway automatically learn what types of data and documents are confidential, and which aren’t.

Awards

• Gartner, Leaders Quadrant, Email Boundary Security Magic Quadrant – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
• Radicatti Group, Top Player – 2008
• SC Magazine – Best Email Security Solution 2009
• SC Magazine Best Buy 2007
• SC Magazine Awards 2006 – Best encryption solution for healthcare
• IDC #1 in SCM Appliances
• Network World 2006 – Best encryption solution, Editor’s choice award