Organizations can do more over the web today than ever before. Often referred to as Web 2.0, today’s web offers a dynamic, real-time user experience. Static information has given way to blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, and other interactive applications and user-generated content. Enterprises are taking advantage of these innovative capabilities to do business in more efficient, collaborative ways.

As use of the web continues to grow and evolve with Web 2.0, web-borne malware attacks continue to grow and evolve as well. The good news is that McAfee can enable your enterprise to say “yes” to Web 2.0 capabilities while taking control of enterprise security. McAfee understands the security needs of the Web 2.0 world like no other vendor, and offers the industry’s most complete, proactive solution: McAfee® Web Gateway (formerly Webwasher).

McAfee Web Gateway Delivers the Industry’s the Industry’s Best Protections

• #1 rated malware protection for Web 2.0 Threats – McAfee Web Anti-Malware, Gateway Edition uses proactive intent analysis to filter out objectionable content from web traffic. By scanning a web page’s active content and understanding its intent or predicted behavior, the Anti-Malware add-on proactively protects against blended threats and targeted attacks. McAfee Web Gateway combines this proactive threat protection against unknown malware with a comprehensive, signature-based anti-virus engine to block known malware. Combining both capabilities provides the industry’s best defense against malware. In fact, independent researchers have awarded McAfee Web Gateway top scores for accurately detecting and blocking more than 99 percent of malware.*



• Reputation-based security through TrustedSource™ technology – McAfee has set a new standard for proactive detection through TrustedSource, our industry-leading global reputation system. Relying on extensive knowledge of Internet entities and the constantly changing global threat landscape, the TrustedSource network identifies potentially malicious behavior worldwide, enabling McAfee enterprise security solutions to block these threats based on the source’s reputation score. TrustedSource’s unrivaled effectiveness is a direct result of McAfee’s unique view into enterprise mail and web traffic. By accumulating data from over 10,000 sensors located in more than 82 countries, TrustedSource creates a profile of all activity on the Internet across multiple protocols, using this profile to detect deviations from expected behavior. The system then generates a reputation score based on the behavior of the host. This score is incorporated into McAfee Web Gateway, enabling organizations to reject unwanted traffic before it enters the network.



• McAfee® Web Reputation Database – McAfee Web Gateway delivers the best protection available through the powerful combination of both reputation- and category-based filtering of web traffic. Through the McAfee Web Reputation Database, a repository for all global Internet data gathered by McAfee, TrustedSource has a rich data store for calculating reputation scores and category placement. With more than 90 categories to choose from and the added security provided through TrustedSource reputation scores, McAfee Web Gateway offers web filtering unmatched in coverage, accuracy,and security.



• Protection for encrypted traffic – Sophisticated cyber-criminals have turned to SSL traffic (HTTPS) as the new back door through the enterprise’s security barrier. Ironically, a protocol designed to provide security must now also be secured against abuse, just as traditional HTTP traffic must be secured. McAfee Web Gateway is the first security product that fully integrates malware detection, SSL inspection, and certificate validation. There’s no need to route encrypted traffic to a separate box for malware inspection. McAfee Web Gateway directly scans all SSL traffic to ensure the complete security, integrity, and privacy of encrypted transactions.



• Data leakage protection (DLP) – McAfee Web Gateway protects organizations from outbound threats—such as leakage of confidential information—by scanning outbound content over all key web protocols, including SSL. This makes McAfee Web Gateway an essential tool for preventing intellectual property loss, ensuring and documenting regulatory compliance, and providing forensic data in the event of a breach. For organizations with advanced DLP requirements, McAfee Web Gateway integrates with McAfee DLP solutions to provide unparalleled data leakage protection.

* McAfee Web Gateway (Webwasher) detected 99.9 percent of malicious samples while achieving a .003% false positive rate. — Anti-Malware Performance Testing, PCMag.com, 2008

McAfee Web Gateway Delivers: Value

McAfee Web Gateway combines and integrates numerous protections that would otherwise require multiple stand-alone products. Web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, SSL scanning, and content control filtering—you can get all of these protections in a single, cost-effective appliance. And a simplified management footprint means that a single security policy can be shared across protections and protocols, saving valuable time and money.

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