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McAfee Total Protection for

Data Loss Prevention
Lock down your data, not your business

Key Advantages

Data protection has always been an object of serious attention by enterprise

security executives and compliance officers, but the recent privacy laws will Device-to-cloud DLP
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Connect and synchronize on-premises
undoubtedly elevate data protection to the boardroom due to the potentially serious DLP and cloud DLP policies in less
consequences of noncompliance. What makes it even more challenging is that than one minute

companies of all sizes are adopting cloud-based services, such as Microsoft Office Unique capture technology
Aid with forensic analysis of data loss
365, to give their employees greater flexibility and easier access to core business
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events that occurred prior to creation

applications. As regulations and corporate needs place increasing demands on IT of rules
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Visibility on how your data is being
used to help fine-tune rules and
daunting. Some data loss prevention (DLP) products require substantial effort to policies
deploy and typically have large ongoing consulting costs. Some DLP products leave it Flexible end-user classification
up to IT to know about all the data that needs to be protected, adding administrative ■■
Alleviates administrative burden and
burden and causing false positives. Others rely on the IT administrator to manage increases end-user data protection
awareness
disparate consoles across multiple environments—endpoints, network, and the ■■
Native manual classification and third-
cloud. When are “good enough” products not good enough? party classification integration options

A single-pane-of-glass management
experience
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Centralized console for all policy and
incident management

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At McAfee, we have a better way. Built from the ground Shared Intelligence and Automated Workflows
up, our DLP solution quickly and effectively protects McAfee Total Protection for DLP tightly integrates with Prevalence of Data Loss
your data wherever it may be. We make it easy to get other McAfee solutions, as well as third-party technology Compromised customer
the solution up and running by delivering it as simple partners, to maximize intelligence sharing. On-premises
records top the list of security
components that can start analyzing your data in incidents, and employees are
classification IDs are shared with cloud DLP to ensure the number one source of
minutes, not months. Extending your on-premises DLP consistent data loss detection. DLP raw events are security incidents.1
policies to the cloud has never been easier. shared with McAfee® Behavioral Analytics to detect risky
Universal Data Protection Across Endpoints, user behavior. The automated workflows help provide
Do You Know Where Your
Networks, and the Cloud ultimate protection for data at rest, data in use, and data Data Is?
in motion. According to the latest McAfee
McAfee® Total Protection for DLP helps ensure
Data Residency report, only
compliance and protects sensitive data wherever McAfee Data Loss Prevention Solution 47% of organizations are
it lives—on endpoints, on the network, in storage Components: Everything You Need completely confident that
systems, or in the cloud. The solution offers the same McAfee® DLP Discover finds your data they know where their data
DLP policy engine and classification engine across is physically located—and
Understanding where sensitive data resides is the first
multiple environments. There’s no need to recreate only 44% have a thorough
step to securing it. McAfee DLP Discover simplifies the understanding of the GDPR
policies to protect the same piece of data in different
discovery with a simple three-step process—inventory, regulation and how it impacts
environments. This common data protection policy
categorization, and remediation. Unlike other solutions them.
capability is achieved via McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator®
that expect you to know exactly what content you want
(McAfee ePO™) software and its tight integration with
to protect and the locations where it’s likely to be stored,
McAfee MVISION Cloud.
McAfee DLP Discover does the heavy lifting by rapidly
Centralized Incident Management and categorizing large amounts of unclassified data—so that
Reporting only relevant files are being examined and remediated.
McAfee Total Protection for DLP offers users a single- Exact data matching offers fingerprinting capabilities
pane-of-glass experience when it comes to managing for structured data. The enhanced protection for
all DLP violations (incidents) and reporting via McAfee structured data in databases and Excel spreadsheets
ePO software. This centralized console also helps reduce is achieved through the flexibility of setting multiple
complexity when it comes to auditing and regulatory criteria to trigger a DLP policy for accuracy. Optical
compliance by providing visibility over sensitive data Character Recognition (OCR) offers enhanced protection
across multiple environments. for sensitive data hidden in the text of scanned images,
forms, and screen shots.

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The software agent-based McAfee DLP Discover is Capture technology is included in the McAfee DLP
centrally deployable and managed by McAfee ePO Prevent license. Capture technology enables you to
software. The solution scans and protects data-at-rest leverage your own historical data to implement a fast,
on file servers, databases, and cloud storage, like Box. efficient deployment—no more guessing, months of
Policies can be easily defined in McAfee ePO software, trial and error, or the business disruption that it can
and scans can be automated and scheduled ahead of cause. Fine-tuning DLP rules for accuracy based on your
time. Special reports on incidents and detailed analytics everchanging business needs is easy. The technology
are readily available to help meet compliance and audit also aids in forensics investigation by acting as a digital
requirements. Furthermore, McAfee DLP Discover recorder and replay for after-the-fact DLP incidents for
shares the same management extension and policy and thorough investigation.
classification engines with McAfee® DLP Endpoint.
McAfee® DLP Prevent for Mobile Email provides content-
Click here to find out more about McAfee DLP Discover. aware protection to mobile email. It intercepts emails
downloaded to mobile device via ActiveSync proxy with
McAfee® DLP Prevent enforces policies
DLP capability. Fully managed by McAfee ePO™ software,
McAfee DLP Prevent works with email and web gateways it helps enterprises easily monitor email for compliance
to enforce policies for information leaving the network evidence collection and protect both managed and
through email, webmail, instant messaging (IM), wikis, unmanaged mobile devices.
blogs, portals, and more. Help ensure the security of the
information you know you must protect—Social Security McAfee DLP Prevent is available both as a physical
numbers, credit card numbers, and financial data—and appliance or a virtual appliance. It is fully McAfee ePO
the information you want to protect, such as highly software-managed and shares the same policy engine as
valuable intellectual property. McAfee DLP Prevent McAfee DLP Endpoint. Common dictionaries and regex
allows you to reduce risks associated with your data and syntax provide continuity for creating common web and
enables you to take a variety of remediation actions, email protection rules. With centralized management,
including encrypting, redirecting, quarantining, and the McAfee DLP solution provides single-pane-of-glass
blocking to support your compliance with regulations visibility, which helps increase business efficiency and
governing the privacy of sensitive information. reduce administrative overhead.

Click here to find out more about McAfee DLP Prevent.

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McAfee® DLP Monitor scans traffic in real time appliance for added flexibility. It is also high performance
McAfee DLP Monitor performs real-time scanning and scalable, with an anticipated performance of around
and analysis of the network traffic. Through detailed 10Gbps per McAfee DLP Monitor appliance2 and up to 8
classification, indexing, and storage of all network scanning appliances for clustering.
traffic—not just information that violates its real-time Click here to find out more about McAfee DLP Monitor.
policies—McAfee DLP Monitor allows you to quickly
leverage historical information via the newly redesigned McAfee DLP Endpoint helps prevent insider
capture technology to build effective and accurate threats.
policies and allows you to anticipate how changes in your Centrally deployable and managed by McAfee ePO
environment might impact the security of the sensitive software, McAfee® DLP Endpoint helps monitor and
data it contains. Additionally, you can perform rapid prevent confidential data loss at work, at home, in the
investigations based on the historical data to ensure that cloud, and on the road. McAfee DLP Endpoint protects
you leave no stone unturned. your organization from day-to-day employee risks,
which can lead to financial loss, brand damage, lost
McAfee DLP Monitor offers comprehensive analysis and
customers, competitive disadvantage, and regulatory
can detect more than 300 unique content types over
noncompliance. With McAfee DLP Endpoint, you can
any port and any applications. It allows you to quickly
quickly and easily monitor real-time events, apply
build a deep understanding of where data is, how it is
centrally managed security policies to control how
being used, who is using it, and where it is going, helping
employees use and transfer sensitive data, and generate
you anticipate new risks as the environment changes.
detailed forensics reports with minimal impact to your
McAfee DLP Monitor is fully unified with McAfee ePO™ daily business activities. Prevent data loss and leakage
software and shares common policies and incident when data is modified, copied, pasted, printed, or
and case management with McAfee DLP Endpoint. It transmitted while enabling its flexible use.
is available both as a physical appliance and a virtual

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With the integration of McAfee Endpoint DLP and Summary Contact Us

McAfee® MVISION Cloud, customers who have both McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention offers
solutions can easily extend current enterprise DLP universal data protection across endpoints, networks, For more information about our
policies to the cloud via the McAfee ePO console. and the cloud. The open platform, McAfee ePO software,
data loss prevention solution,
Connecting the two solutions can be as easy as one click please visit www.mcafee.com/dlp,
makes it simple to enable device-to-cloud DLP. McAfee or call us at 888.847.8766.
and as fast as under one minute.3 On-premises DLP DLP customers can easily extend current enterprise DLP
classification tags are shared with cloud DLP policies to policies to the cloud and leverage common policies to
ensure consistent data loss detection. ensure consistent data loss detection. A single-pane-of-
McAfee DLP Endpoint integrates with third-party end glass management console manages all DLP violations
user behavioral analytics (UEBA) to tackle insider treats. and incident workflows, regardless if the DLP violations
It leverages a open big data platform to conduct security are coming from corporate devices or cloud applications.
analytics and detect unusual and highly risky user and With more data being created in and sent to the cloud
entity behavior. Alerts are sent back to McAfee ePO every day, it is more important than ever to have a set
software DLP Incident Manager, and suspicious behavior of consistent DLP policies that protect data from any
is halted, even if there is no existing DLP policy in place. leakage vectors—whether it’s corporate endpoints,
unmanaged devices, on the network, or even in cloud
Click here to find out more about McAfee DLP Endpoint. applications.

1. 2018 IDB Global Information Security Survey: https://www.pwc.com/us/

en/cybersecurity/information-security-survey.html
2. Based on consistent McAfee internal lab testing.
3. Ibid.

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