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McAfee Security for Email Servers

Score5.9 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is McAfee Security for Email Servers?

McAfee Security for Email Servers is a solution designed to protect email servers from various threats, including malware, spam, phishing attacks, and data loss. According to the vendor, this product is suitable for small, medium, and large organizations, and it caters to the needs of IT professionals, network administrators, security analysts, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations, among others.

Key Features

Email Content Pack: According to the vendor, this feature helps prevent data loss and leakage, identify and mitigate threats, monitor and enforce email security policies, and detect and block spam emails.

Malware Content Pack: The vendor claims that this feature allows users to take swift action against malware, build a logical workflow for reviewing malware events, quarantine infected emails, and generate reports and analytics.

Phishing Content Pack: According to the vendor, this feature helps identify and block phishing attacks, analyze and classify emails, educate users about phishing threats, and monitor and report on phishing trends.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP): The vendor states that this feature helps prevent unauthorized transmission of sensitive data, detect and block emails containing sensitive information, enforce data loss prevention policies, and monitor and audit email communications.

Spam Filtering: According to the vendor, this feature enables users to filter and block spam emails, utilize advanced spam detection techniques, customize spam filtering rules, and reduce the risk of phishing attacks and malware infections.

Email Encryption: The vendor claims that this feature allows users to encrypt sensitive email communications, implement secure email gateways, authenticate and verify sender and recipient identities, and comply with data protection regulations.

Email Archiving: According to the vendor, this feature helps users archive and retain email communications, ensure preservation and availability of email records, implement retention policies, and search and retrieve archived emails quickly.

Email Filtering and Quarantine: The vendor states that this feature enables users to filter incoming and outgoing emails, quarantine potentially harmful emails, customize filtering rules, and reduce the risk of email-based attacks.

Email Authentication: According to the vendor, this feature helps users implement email authentication protocols, prevent email spoofing and impersonation, reduce the risk of phishing attacks and email-based fraud, and enhance email deliverability.

Email Threat Intelligence: The vendor claims that this feature allows users to leverage threat intelligence feeds, stay updated on the latest email threat trends, integrate with threat intelligence platforms, and automate the sharing of threat intelligence data.

Top Performing Features

  • Anti-malware

    Anti-malware is a type of software program designed to prevent, detect and remove malicious software

    Category average: 9.1

  • Data Loss Protection

    A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Threat Detection

    Threat protection defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • End-to-End Encryption

    In end-to-end encryption the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it

    Category average: 8.4

  • Management Tools

    Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Customizability

    Customizing email security gateways can improve detection capabilities

    Category average: 7.7

McAfee Security for Email Servers - The True Champion.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization we used McAfee Security for Email Servers to address the business problems like mail filtering, to protect from the threat like trojan, malware and virus which is spread through the phishing mails.

Also, we use McAfee Security for Email Servers to secure our email environment for it's robust feature of threat protection from various attacks which can be spread through the spam mails.

Pros

  • mail filtering
  • threat protection
  • threat response
  • customer support

Cons

  • Intelligent threat detection
  • Data protection can be improved
  • Pricing can be improved
  • monitoring of spam sending patterns and IP behavior can be improved

Return on Investment

  • The layer of protection provided by the McAfee Security for Email Servers from cyber attacks is on of the highlight of it.
  • It is the one of the best solution to prevent your organizations employee to fall prey to the attacks like phishing, spamming and many more.
  • The most incredible thing McAfee Security for Email Servers does is that it can be great in dealing with the attacks and detection of cyber threats even before they impact your business.

Alternatives Considered

Symantec Advanced Threat Protection, FortiAuthenticator and Sophos Email