This strategy leverages McAfee’s core strength in threat prevention, a diverse SaaS portfolio, and an industry-leading global threat intelligence, powered by McAfee Avert Labs.

• Email Protection - block 99.7%+ spam, malware, phishing and other email threats.
  
  
• Web Protection filters all web traffic for threats, inc. mobile devices and remote workers.
  
  
• Automatic Email Continuity keep productive during planned or unplanned email outages.
  
  
• Email Encryption.    Simple, fast, no software to install for sender or recipient.

*Integrated Email Archiving is coming soon for UK customers

The infrastructure and IT operations supporting the applications are also provided by McAfee. In a manner of speaking, SaaS applications are leased, rather than purchased, and they’re managed completely by the customer that “leases” them.

This approach contrasts with the traditional, on-premises model, in which the customer purchasing software is responsible for installing it, as well as maintaining and upgrading it.

Additionally self help tools, KB's and service requests are also available from Softek's award winning eSupport service AND via an eService portal available to all McAfee customers.

With 100 million+ endpoints running McAfee software, and all analysing suspicious behaviour, GTI is an early warning system.

For example, a dangerous website is put live in China, McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) software notices the anomalous behavior and predictively adjusts the website’s reputation.  All McAfee security products across the world are updated with this information in seconds, and all Mcafee solutions will automatically block access to this site, and protect customers.

By running security as a cloud-based SaaS solution, customers can reduce capital investment, eliminate onsite administration, and reallocate IT resources to projects better aligned to their expertise.

And because McAfee Security-as-a-Service solutions access our Global Threat Intelligence technologies, customers get immediate, up-to-the-minute threat protection to ensure data, systems, and networks are instantly and always secure.

• McAfee SaaS Email Protection and Continuity solutions—Stops email-borne attacks and spam before they reach your network with total inbound and outbound email protection, access, and archiving.  100% Email continuity.

• McAfee SaaS Web Protection—Stops malware and other web-borne threats, using URL-filtering and McAfee TrustedSource™ reputation-based security technology to enforce security policies in real time.

• McAfee SaaS Email Archiving— Provides unlimited, in-the-cloud storage for your mail.

• McAfee SaaS Email Encryption—Offers enterprise-level performance without the complexity and cost associated with on-premise solutions.

You can also offer a custom hostname, and support email addresses for the service.

The solutions simply require a quick management set-up or a mail exchange (MX) redirection for immediate protection – but do not require additional installations or any management hardware on-premises.

For web protection you simply need to redirect your Internet browser traffic (proxy settings) through McAfee datacentres.

Full setup instructions and training resources are of course provided during provisioning.

A few common ones include Microsoft Exchange, Domino, Groupwise, mDaemon, Oracle, Postfix, Sendmail, Zimbra, Qmail, Netmail, Open-Xchange, Scalix, Smail, SMTP Proxy, MailMarshal, MailSweeper, Sun Java System, Wingate, ZMailer and many more..

You will require:

* A unique email domain name, such as yourdomain.com

* A mail server (hosted or on-premise) with a static IP address. By simply redirecting the mail exchange (MX) record through the McAfee servers, mail traffic will be scanned quickly and easily - before entering or leaving your network.

We recommend you create a new MX Record with a higher priority than your existing mail server.

In the event that you decide not to continue with the service, you can simply remove this MX record.