Groupshield Features - McAfee GSSCDE-AA-DA - GroupShield Security Suite User Manual

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McAfee GroupShield 7.0 User Guide

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
within the Microsoft
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:
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
Orchestrator and McAfee
ePolicy Orchestrator and McAfee
for rolling out, administering and updating the GroupShield software across your
Microsoft
implementation of the GroupShield software reduces the time required to
administer and update the system.
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Exchange Server store.
email message subject line
email message body
email attachment
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Exchange system. The ability to centrally manage an organization-wide
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ProtectionPilot — GroupShield integrates with McAfee
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ProtectionPilot to provide a centralized method
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Introduction
GroupShield Features
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