McAfee GSSCDE-AA-DA User Guide - Page 11

McAfee® GroupShield™ 7.0 User Guide 1 Introduction GroupShield Features GroupShield Features GroupShield includes these major features on Exchange Server 2003 and 2007: „ Anti-virus scanning - GroupShield provides the ability to scan for viruses contained in email messages that are transmitted over Microsoft® Exchange SMTP or held within the Microsoft® Exchange Server store. „ Anti-spam scanning - Spam is increasingly becoming an issue within the workplace. Spam consumes system resources by taking up bandwidth and storage within your corporate systems and distracts staff from their key job functions because they have to deal with the unwanted email within their mailboxes. GroupShield helps you save bandwidth and the storage required by your Microsoft® Exchange servers by assigning spam scores to each email messages while scanning them and by taking the configured action on those messages. „ Anti-phishing - GroupShield is capable of detecting email messages containing phish that fraudulently tries to obtain personal information. Typically such email messages request the recipients to click on a link in the email to verify or update contact details, credit card details or other personal information. „ Content filtering - GroupShield provides the ability to scan for content/text in an: „ email message subject line „ email message body „ email attachment „ File filtering - GroupShield scans an email attachment depending on the file name, file type, and the file size of that attachment. „ Enterprise rollout, administration, updating and reporting using McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator and McAfee® ProtectionPilot - GroupShield integrates with McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator and McAfee® ProtectionPilot to provide a centralized method for rolling out, administering and updating the GroupShield software across your Microsoft® Exchange system. The ability to centrally manage an organization-wide implementation of the GroupShield software reduces the time required to administer and update the system. 11