McAfee Firewall Enterprise

McAfee Firewall Enterprise 8 expands possibilities of protection at the level of applications thanks to hardware-software firewalls of the enterprise level which allow security administrators to apply policy for the applications invisible to the normal firewall. The solution interacts in real time with an analysis system of global threats of McAfee Global Threat Intelligence which is based on "cloud" data processing from around the world that provides more exact and operational detecting of new threats.

Key advantages of McAfee Firewall Enterprise 8:

• Expanded protection of applications — McAfee Firewall Enterprise 8 allows administrators to provide profound control over applications and to apply policy for the applications coordinated to information on the user, providing a clear boundary of use of the application. This type of protection supplements already available built-in functionality on protection against viruses, filtering of the URL addresses, prevention of network invasions and control of the encoded traffic (https/ssh)."
• Expanded protection against threats — McAfee Firewall Enterprise 8 increases efficiency of the analysis of global threats thanks to use of filtering on the basis of reputation and a geographical location, allows the organizations to limit the network connections to those resources which have good reputation and are based in the corresponding domains.
• Improvement of control of the firewall — McAfee Firewall Profiler specifies solutions of the most complex problems which administrators of the firewall face, maintains justification of rules of the firewall in terms of expediency for business, tracing as these rules affect availability and security of the application used at the enterprise.

Crossbeam RT и McAfee

In the fall of 2012 of Crossbeam RT, the Russian Telecom Equipment Company and Crossbeam Systems joint venture for production of platforms of security, and McAfee company, solution provider and services in information security, brought to the Russian market a new solution for security of network. The joint product combines the network screen of new generation from McAfee (McAfee Firewall Enterprise) and family of platforms of network security from Crossbeam RT. This solution is intended for protection of networks of the state organizations, enterprises of critical infrastructure and telecom operators.

The hardware-software Crossbeam RT X-серии platform allows the network McAfee Firewall Enterprise screen to work with performance of an operator class – at speeds up to 40 Gbps at inspection of applied traffic and to show scalability and redundancy at the level necessary for large enterprises and operators for protection of the networks.

The network screen of new generation from McAfee company creates unknown opportunities for monitoring of external and internal threats and vulnerabilities and more effective protection of customers. It allows them surely and to safely keep high growth rates and developments of Web applications in the networks with the complete satisfaction of statutory and regulatory requirements. Today the corporate network McAfee Firewall Enterprise screen protects 15,000 networks worldwide, including several networks of the state organizations with the highest security level and also networks of seven of ten largest world financial institutions.

In case of installation of network McAfee screens on the Crossbeam RT X-серии platform customers will be able to cut down expenses and to consolidate the resources at simultaneous increase in the overall level of security. The Crossbeam RT X-серии platform allows customers to consolidate safety controls on the uniform high-performance chassis and up to 70 percent to reduce total cost of ownership in comparison with the alternative solutions existing in the modern market.