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McAfee® | Security Management Center

Unified Network Security Management The McAfee® Security Management Center forms the core of our security solution, providing unified network security management for the McAfee Next Generation Firewall, McAfee Firewall/VPN, and McAfee Next Generation Firewall in IPS mode. In addition to managing McAfee next-generation devices, the McAfee Security Management
Center also provides event management, status monitoring, and reporting capabilities for thirdparty devices. By collecting all of this information in one centralized system, administrators can get a complete overview of what is occurring in their
environment.

The McAfee Security Management Center includes at least one management server and one log server that can be installed either on the same or separate servers. The management client is the graphical user interface used for configuring, managing, and monitoring the entire system. Optionally, the McAfee Security Management Center solution can be extended by adding additional management and log servers and web portal servers.

The McAfee Security Management Center is designed to manage large, geographically distributed installations. It is flexible and allows you to scale up current components and add new components to the system without sacrificing ease-of-use. The larger the environment, the greater the benefits you gain through the efficient policy management, centralized monitoring, and reporting capabilities the McAfee Security Management Center provides. The administration workflows are optimized to make daily securitymanagement as efficient as possible.

McAfee Security Management Center High Availability enables you to build an extremely resilient management infrastructure, ensuring continuous access to the management and log resources. When using McAfee Security Management Center High Availability, administrators have full control of the security devices even if the primary management server is unavailable. Log server high availability ensures that logs and alerts are received even if the primary log server is unavailable. With McAfee Security Management Center High Availability licenses, you ensure that maintenance of the management or log server does not cause any interruptions in business traffic.

The McAfee Security Management client provides all relevant security management tools and functions in the same unified graphical user interface. Configuration, monitoring, logging, status information, alerts, reports, updates, and upgrades can be managed centrally for all devices, regardless of their physical location. All these tools have been designed to work seamlessly together from day one. The McAfee Security Management client provides administrators with shortcuts and drill-down actions for effective management of the whole security environment.