McAfee Total Protection

The McAfee Total Protection platform provides for the centralized security management of multiple PC endpoints. Security capabilities of the platform are based on and leverage multiple McAfee signature technologies, including anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware, network access control, and more.

McAfee sells multiple, varying products under the Total Protection brand. Among those targeted primarily to mid-large Enterprises are Total Protection for Endpoint (formerly Total Protection Enterprise), offered in Standard and Advanced flavors; Total Protection for Data; and Total Protection for Network.

The Total Protection for Endpoint version of the product is built around McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator offering, which provides the central management, reporting, and configuration console for the platform's capabilities. Those capabilities include desktop and file server anti-virus scanning, desktop anti-spyware, desktop host intrusion prevention including a combination of both signature and behavioral analysis, desktop firewall, and E-mail server-based anti-virus and anti-spam filtering. The Advanced version of the product adds Network Access Control features, limiting network access to only those endpoints that comply with defined security postures. The Total Protection for Endpoint offerings utilize or leverage the technology of multiple McAfee offerings, including ePO, Alert Manager, VirusScan Enterprise, AntiSpyware Enterprise Module, GroupShield for Exchange/Domino, Host Intrusion Prevention, Policy Enforcer, SpamKiller, and others.

New in the latest release of Total Protection for Endpoint are policy auditing features, and support for the detection of rogue systems.

Total Protection for Data focuses on the prevention of data leaks from endpoint PCs as well as the ability to encrypt data on endpoints. Data loss prevention features include the ability to control end-user usages of sensitive data (including printing or sending via multiple methods, such as E-mail, Webmail, P2P apps, FTP, etc.), with the vendor noting that data is protected even when modified, copied, pasted, compressed, or encrypted; and encryption capabilities include support for whole-disk encryption (including two-factor authentication) with support for multiple encryption algorithms including AES-256 and RC5-1024; as well as persistent file and folder encryption in which a file header is attached to the file enabling it to remain encrypted even when saved in an alternate location or sent as an E-mail attachment.

Finally, Total Protection for Network offers network-level protection through a combination of McAfee appliances. The Enterprise version of the product combines the vendor's Content Security Blade Server with the M-8000 Network Security Appliance (formerly known as IntruShield), while the Standard version combines the McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance with the McAfee I-1400 Network Security Appliance.

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