McAfee - Anti-Spam: McAfee Secure Internet Gateway
11/2006
Company
McAfeewww.mcafee.com
Product Name
McAfee Secure Internet GatewayProduct Overview
The McAfee Secure Internet Gateway is designed to monitor and protect a corporate IT network across a range of services including HTTP and FTP. Specifically, it was the rack-mountable 3100 model based on a Dell Poweredge 750 server that featured in this test.
Test Objectives
- Evaluate the ease with which the product may be installed or configured
- Report the percentage of spam detected by the product
- Report the number of genuine mails incorrectly classified as spam
- Report on additional features available within the product
- To review any extra functionality and its impact on performance
Test Methodology
- Out-of-the-box configuration, following vendor recommended setup guidelines
- A two-week test duration with the first week providing training for the product
- Fine tuning of the settings on a daily basis, for the initial training period
- Mixture of spam, genuine, and grey mail directed at the product
- Daily report made available to the vendor
West Coast Labs Conclusion
The McAfee Secure Internet Gateway may be installed and configured very rapidly, and this is coupled with informative monitoring and impressive scalability. The ability of this solution to run many of the tasks as automated processes will make more time available for any hard-pressed administrators or network teams. Further to this, the speed in which basic configuration can be performed, along with the design of the hardware, allows the appliance to be rapidly integrated into any corporate network.
Data gathered by the appliance is displayed clearly and provides a high level of information. This may then be used to inform an administrator so that they may better protect their network from the effects of unwanted mail. The data gathered by Secure Internet Gateway may be viewed in a variety of different formats including a statistical breakdown, various graphical representations, and detailed log entries.
The ability of the appliance to also protect the host network from viral infestation adds to the level of protection afforded by Secure Internet Gateway. This is further enhanced by plugins and tools designed by McAfee to compliment the product.
McAfee's Secure Internet Gateway performed well during the installation, setup, training and spam detection testing processes, delivering 100% of the genuine mail correctly and correctly classifying 98% of the spam mail. West Coast Labs is pleased to award Secure Internet Gateway the Premium Anti-Spam Checkmark certification.About West Coast Labs
West Coast Labs is one of the world's leading independent test facilities providing a range of technical services for testing a range of technologies including UTM, Malware - including Anti-Virus, Trojan, Worms, Exploits and Spyware - Spam, URL, Web and Email Filtering, Firewall, VPN, IDS, IPS and IPD.
Current Clients include AhnLab, Aladdin, Authentium, BitDefender, Brightcloud, CA, Central Command, Comdomsoft, Copperfasten, Digital OnNet, Elitecore, Efrontier, Equiinet, ESET, GFI, Grisoft, GData, Hauri, IBM, ISS, Ironport, IOLO, Jiangmin, Juniper, K7, Kaspersky, Kingsoft, Logica, McAfee, MessageLabs, Microsoft, Netcore, Netintelligence, Norman, Panda Security, PC Tools, PineApp, Realblocker, Rising, Sophos, Sunbelt, SurfControl, Symantec, Trend Micro, Tumbleweed, VirusBuster, Watchguard, Webroot.
