McAfee SaaS Email Protection

Overview:

Get effective, reliable, fully managed email security. McAfee SaaS Email Protection works outside of your network to block more than 99% of spam, viruses, worms, and harmful content. It protects your email infrastructure, safeguarding your communication and information integrity. The comprehensive service can be quickly deployed, with no hardware or software required, and provides an important first defense for your company.

McAfee SaaS Email Protection is a hosted email security solution. It eliminates incoming and outgoing message threats such as spam, viruses, phishing scams, directory-harvest, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
McAfee SaaS Email Protection raises the level of your messaging security, and requires no additional hardware, software, or IT staff. Built on advanced and proprietary technology managed behind the scenes by the threat experts at McAfee, SaaS Email Protection provides an easy set-and-forget management experience through our web-based administrative and reporting portal. With this intuitive user interface, it's easy to customize the service to meet your business needs.

Your email is re-directed through the McAfee servers, where your mail traffic is quickly scanned before entering or leaving your network. With the McAfee security experts providing up-to-the-minute updates, network administrators are freed from day-to-day threat management. Our technologists monitor the global state of email around the clock, providing a dynamic, proactive defense that protects against the latest threats.

McAfee SaaS Email Protection helps you enforce corporate email policies while safeguarding your users, customers, and business partners. Emails trying to enter or leave your network are subject to real-time threat checking. Suspect messages are quarantined and prevented from passing through the perimeter.

Because McAfee regularly updates and upgrades its messaging security service, you save infrastructure cost and extend infrastructure life. With its support for encrypted Internet email transmission, McAfee SaaS Email Protection secures your email message content from unauthorized examination.

Benefits:

Low-cost, easy-to-manage email protection
A snap to deploy, McAfee SaaS Email Protection prevents inbound and outbound email threats from impacting your network and end users. This security Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is always on, is always up to date, and requires no additional investment in hardware or software nor the time and resources to configure or maintain it. Because the service stops spam and email-based threats before they infiltrate your network, the load on your email servers is greatly reduced, saving you valuable bandwidth and server storage. Webbased administration simplifies management, frees up your valuable IT resources, and lowers your total cost of ownership. And McAfee’s world-class 24/7 customer support ensures that help is never more than a phone call away.

Advanced, layered technology to block spam
Our feature-rich, highly reliable service leverages a multilayered strategy to successfully keep more than 99 percent of destructive messages out of the business environment. Primary to the McAfee SaaS Email Protection defense effectiveness is its Stacked Classification Framework® spam detection system. This proprietary filtering system utilizes a patented method of identifying and controlling spam via a voting algorithm based on a sophisticated form of intelligent reasoning to achieve more than 99 percent accuracy. Within the Framework, different spam filters separately assess and “vote” on the probability a specific email is spam, a technique that results in highly accurate threat protection with industry-leading low false positive rates (where legitimate email is misidentified as spam). Furthermore, as new spam-detection techniques and filters are developed, SaaS Email Protection can rapidly and seamlessly integrate them into the flexible Framework such as the Deep Content AnalysisSM filter that addresses attachment spam such as PDF spam.

Simplified 24/7 management
With the web-based management portal, email policy updates are simple to manage across all your domains and locations. Administrators can configure policies for spam, viruses, and contentfiltering from a single, intuitive management portal, which also offers easy access to reports, logs, and quarantines.

Flexible email security policy enforcement
With SaaS Email Protection, administrators can configure and enforce email content policies; create and enforce message and attachment content rules; comply with industry or regional requirements; and apply granular policies globally or based on existing user groups or individuals.

Inbound and outbound content filtering
It’s just as important to filter what goes out as what comes in. McAfee SaaS Email Protection provides outbound content filtering to help you automatically enforce policies for outbound email, protecting your business from malicious or accidental loss of sensitive data in outbound email and attachments.

Compatible with Leading Email Providers
McAfee SaaS Email Protection works with the leading email infrastructures including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, or any other standardsbased email servers. Whatever you use, McAfee SaaS Email Protection protects your email communication so you can go about your business worry free.

Features:

Spam blocking

• Stacked Classification Framework system blocks over 99 percent of spam
• Suspect messages are deposited into an external quarantine for future handling if desired

Virus and worm scanning

• Our proprietary WormTraq® worm detection technology identifies and intercepts zero-hour mass mailing worms before they enter or leave a corporate network
• Includes virus protection, automatically updated and managed

Fraud protection

• Anti-spam rules automatically protect businesses from fraud and phishing scams
• Around-the-clock monitoring provides proactive defense against the latest phishing attacks

Content and attachment filtering

• Automatic filtering identifies and blocks unwanted, inappropriate, and malicious content in body copy and attachments before it enters or leaves your organization
• HTML shield blocks intrusive spam beacons and web bugs

Email attack protection

• • Unique record masking technique conceals email servers from the public Internet
• Provides instant blocking of denial of service and other SMTP-based attacks

Reputation-based security

• Uses TrustedSource™ global reputation intelligence to eliminate threats as soon as they appear
• Allows administrators flexibility to classify spam, ham, and quarantine queues with a great deal of accuracy, virtually eliminating false positives

Outbound message filtering

• Protects corporate integrity by preventing distribution of sensitive or proprietary information
• Includes option to add footer or disclaimer to all outbound messages

Email disaster recovery

• Fail Safe Service engages automatically whenever connectivity to your email server(s) is lost due to planned or unplanned outages
• Includes five rolling days of storage to ensure you never lose an email due to an outage

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System Requirements:

McAfee SaaS Email Protection is a Software-as-a- Service solution that resides outside your network, requiring no additional hardware, software, or personnel resources to manage daily security operations. All you will need is your own mail domain (such as www.yourdomain.com), a static IP address or a hostname that resolves to an IP address, and a dedicated mail server, either inhouse or hosted by an ISP. By simply redirecting the mail exchange (MX) record through the McAfee servers, your inbound and outbound email will be transparently protected by the McAfee SaaS Email Protection and delivered to your email server spam-free.

Documentation:

McAfee SaaS Email Protection Data Sheet (.PDF)

McAfee SaaS Email Protection FAQs (.PDF)