McAfee Web Security, Gateway Edition protections are enabled through a choice of licensing options. The baseline solution, McAfee Web Security, combines the accuracy and breadth of reputation-based web filtering with McAfee Anti-Virus to provide bidirectional web security.

This combination creates the most powerful web filtering solution available today. It prevents malicious content from entering your network and significantly reduces the productivity losses, bandwidth consumption, and legal risks caused by unauthorized employee access to inappropriate or distracting web content. And you can specify policies that apply across all modules and are valid for all web, SSL, and FTP traffic - greatly simplifying policy management compared to multiple, stand-alone security solutions.