Mcafee E-BUSINESS SERVER DATASHEET

Data Sheet

McAfee System Protection Solutions

McAfee E-Business Server

Overview

Unprotected data that is exchanged or stored opens a
security risk for companies. Confidential information
could be revealed to unauthorized sources, both inside
and outside the company. Businesses need a way to
exchange secure data with branch offices, vendors, and
business partners to stay competitive and protected.

As with any security implementation, safekeeping your
data is only as secure as your weakest link. It is
common knowledge that most hacker attacks come
from inside the corporation. Therefore, it is imperative
that data be encrypted to prevent unauthorized access,
both when transferred electronically and when stored.

McAfee
end-to-end protection to securely exchange confidential
information between partners and remote offices via the
Internet. Information and data can now be exchanged
securely with automated protection within applications,
file transfers, transaction processes, and e-mail, using
the strength of PGP encryption.

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E-Business Server is an easy way to provide

Industrial-Strength Encryption

Using PGP encryption technology, McAfee E-Business
Server allows IT administrators and developers to
embed automatic encryption, decryption, digital signing,
and verification to protect data everywhere it is
accessed by users, allowing full control of who has
access to what information. PGP 128-bit encryption
incorporates the industry’s strongest encryption
algorithms, including Triple-DES CAST, IDEA, and the
Twofish Cipher algorithms.

Providing Ease-of-Use

Although McAfee E-Business Server provides full
protection, it is also easy to install and manage. Not
only does it automate encryption, compression, digital
signing, data integrity, and authentication within
applications or batch processes, it protects data without
user interaction for consistent security. And McAfee E­Business Server uses simple commands to make
securing data with encryption easy, eliminating
implementation errors and reducing maintenance.

McAfee E-Business Server 8.0 provides a simplified
installation process that makes it easy to set up on
multiple servers from a single console, enabling
customers to get up and running in just a few hours.

And because McAfee E-Business Server maps into
your existing business processes, no additional
gateway or network changes are necessary.

And with remote management capabilities, multiple
McAfee E-Business Server 8.0s can be implemented
within your enterprise and managed from a single
location. This easy-to-use, Java-based GUI console
provides a configuration interface via the network or
Internet that allows IT administrators to manage the
data that is being encrypted and the policies.

Efficient, Secure Communications

Unlike traditional methods of communication with
partners and remote offices, which may be expensive
and insecure, McAfee E-Business Server makes it easy
to exchange information with partners and remote
offices. Not only does McAfee E-Business Server allow
companies to replace expensive leased lines b y
transferring data securely and inexpensively over the
Internet, it enables data-sharing with partners who do
not have encryption installed. McAfee E-Business
Server supports large files in excess of 4GB, with built­in compression (up to 50 percent) to conserve
bandwidth, thus reducing transfer costs and providing
efficient use of storage space. And with support for self­decryption (SDA) and other archives, McAfee E­Business Server provides secure transactions and
communications for companies with their business
partners who do not use encryption.

Protection for Third-Party Applications

McAfee E-Business Server makes it easy to protect
both proprietary and third-party applications that are
used to doing business with partners and remote offices.
It allows developers to easily implement market-leading
data protection into their existing applications, batch
processes, and transfers using their choice of language
or script (UNIX Shell Scripts, Perl Scripts, CGI Scripts,
Windows
C/C++ native support) with simple commands or
optional native APIs (including C, Visual Basic, Perl,
and Java) ensuring that all data communicated with
partners from any back-end system can be encrypted.

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Batch Files using a command line, and

Compatibility with Multiple Server Platforms

McAfee E-Business Server can protect data from
practically any network server including FT P,
application, file, and Web servers, as well as

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mainframes. Also, because it supports international
PGP standards and protocols as well as X.509
certificates, McAfee E-Business Server interoperates
with a wide range of data partners. It operates by
encrypting on one platform and decrypting on another,
enabling the sharing of data across platforms running
under Windows or other operating systems including:
OS/390, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris or Windows
NT/2000 for McAfee E-Business Server 7.1; and Solaris
or Windows NT/2000/2003 for McAfee E-Business
Server 8.0. And it supports SmartCards and other
PKCS 11-compliant tokens on Windows platforms.

Extensive Certificate Support

With support for international PGP standards and
protocols as well as a long list of certificate authorities,
McAfee E-Business Server enables users the flexibility
to securely exchange information with more partners
than any other encryption solution. Certificate
authorities supported include VeriSign OnSite, Entrust,
iPlanet CMS, and Windows 2000. X.509 certificate
generation allows companies to create in-house
certificate authorities, freeing them from commercial
certificate authorities.

Algorithms Supported

Symmetric

• CAST5

• AES 128-, 192-, and 256-bit

• IDEA

• 3DES (Triple-DES)

• Twofish 256-bits

Asymetric (Public Key)

• RSA v3 and v4 up to 4,096 bits

• DSA

• ElGamal (Diffie Hellman)

Hash

• SHA-1

• MD5

• RIPEMD-160

System Requirements

For Windows:

• 32MB RAM

• 6MB free disk space

For Unix:

• 32MB RAM

• 9MB free disk space

E-Business Server 8.0

• GUI console admin station

o Microsoft

workstation versions only

o Requires a Java virtual machine to be running

(JDK 1.4 or later)

• Management agent must run on server where

EBS command line utility is installed

o Microsoft Windows NT4, 2000 Server, 2000

Advanced Server, and 2003

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Windows NT4, XP, 2000, and 2003,

o Sun Solaris 8, 9

o Red Hat 3.0 Enterprise Server
o SuSE Linux 9.0 Enterprise Sever

Platforms Supported

E-Business Server 7.1

• Windows NT/2000 (service pack 4 or later)

• Linux x86 Red Hat 6.0 or later

• Debian 2.2 (Potato) or later

• Solaris 2.6 or later

• HP-UX 10.20 or later

• AIX 4.2 or later

E-Business Server 8.0

• Microsoft Windows NT4, 2000 Server, 2000

Advanced Server, and 2003

• Sun Solaris 8, 9

• Red Hat 3.0 Enterprise Server

• SuSE Linux 9.0 Enterprise Sever

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