Not all security appliances are created equal. Use this Buyer's Checklist to expose security effectiveness and features when evaluating vendors, and to drill into how each solution ranks in improving employee productivity, enabling compliance to industry and government regulations, preventing data leakage, and reducing management and licensing costs.
Buyer's Guide
McAfee Buyer's Guide for Small
and Medium-Size Businesses Email and Web Security Appliance Buyer's Guide Email and Web Security Appliance
Executive OverviewSmall and medium-size businesses (SMBs), just like large enterprise organizations, are at risk to email and web-borne threats. However, unlike large enterprises, SMBs typically do not have the budget or IT resources to implement enterprise email and web security solutions. Compounding this problem, the recent economic downturn has forced tightening of budgets, presenting IT managers with the challenges of maintaining sufficient corporate email and web safeguards and enforcing controls and As the world's largest dedicated compliance while reducing costs and staffing requirements. security technology company, McAfee understands that SMBs do not have As you consider email and web security options for your business, it is important to know that not all the same time, staff, or budget to dedicate to security and compliance security appliances are created equal. In fact, there are major disparities in features and effectiveness that large businesses have. To enable among even the most popular vendors. smaller businesses with the same enterprise-class security and features, In addition to comparing the security effectiveness of products, you should also think about how the ®McAfee provides the McAfee Email solution you implement helps you to improve employee productivity, enable compliance to industry and and Web Security Appliance. This solution, designed and packaged for government regulations, prevent data leakage, and reduce management and licensing costs. This guide the small to medium-size business, highlights key requirements that you should keep in mind when you are determining which email and enables McAfee customers to arm web solution is best for your business.themselves against the latest email and web-borne threats, eliminate spam, enforce usage controls, and reduce Why Email and Web Security Are Criticalsystem administration requirements. Email and web-borne threatsEmail and the web are the tools of choice for cybercriminals who are constantly improving their methods for invading your network. Although Web 2.0 applications, like customer relationship management (CRM) systems, online payroll, benefits enrollment, and travel booking, have become Businesses lose more than $1 trillion essential technology tools within organizations, they also open doors for cybercriminals. These Web 2.0 annually in intellectual property due to data theft and cybercrime. applications are exploited with sophisticated blended tactics combining web and email that are designed to evade traditional detection methods that examine only one path. It can be days, months, or even -McAfee Unsecured Economies Report, January 2009 longer before a compromise is recognized and remediated. These blended threats require the need for real-time detection and defenses against both email and web threats-applying behavior and reputation analysis to determine risk levels and to identify threats.
Compliance ?"Half of the insiders who stole or Data protection and privacy regulations have forced companies of all sizes, including SMBs, to modified information for financial implement compliance policies and controls and, most important, prove compliance through audit gain were actually recruited by outsiders, including organized reports. Policies based on manual approaches simply will not scale. Only automated enforcement crime and foreign organizations or of email and web policies can help you stay current with increasingly prescriptive rules. The content governments." controls must include capabilities for both inbound and outbound content policies. All of these rules -Carnegie Mellon Computer should link to reports you can generate without digging for data or opening a spreadsheet.Emergency Response Team (CERT), Common Sense Guide to Prevention Inbound content controls enforce acceptable usage controls to minimize corporate liability. For instance, and Detection of Insider Threats you should be able to manage use of the web to control content categorized as porn or harassment. 3rd Edition-Version 3.1 Email content policies can be implemented to block inappropriate or regulated message content. Although most corporate data leaks are unintentional, the economic downturn has increased intentional leaks. Disgruntled workers are more sus... [download for more]
