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Stop SPAM and URL Filtering with CA Gateway Security - Learn more  

• End to End Content Protection - provides integrated, multilayered policy-driven email (SMTP) and web (HTTP, FTP) traffic scanning that addresses content threats at the gateway
• Best of Breed Components - offers best of breed anti-virus, anti-spam, inbound and outbound email filtering and web URL filtering. 
• Simplified Administration - enables a business to address and manage all email and web content threats remotely.
• Extensive Automated Actions and Alerts - automated, customizable actions, such as "block" and "quarantine," can be defined for each policy so that there is an immediate response when an object matches the policy criteria. 

Shut Down Malware with CA Threat Manager - Learn more 

• Single Integrated Management - the integrated management console reduces installation complexity, simplifies the system image, reduces support costs and raises efficiency through a common agent. 
• Active Protection - harmful executables are stopped dead, spyware, root kits, keyloggers, and other malicious code cannot execute and are promptly removed.
• Bandwidth-saving Signature Updates - MicroDAT antivirus signature updates are less than 500KB in size.  This is a more efficient way to distribute signature updates and ensures up-to-the-minute protection while saving valuable bandwidth.
• Flexible Reporting Capabilities - reports can be created based on workstation, date/time, security risk priority and virus/pest category.  Automated email alerts of threats detected can be configured to meet specific business needs such as, defining "safe lists' or exclusion files of authorized applications to prevent false alarms.
• Expanded Reporting Capabilities - contains seventy five administrative reports.  These reports are displayed in an easy-to-read, graphical format for improved administration and troubleshooting.
• Improved Agent Communications - communications between the CA Threat Manager agent and the web-based management console are initiated by the agent.  This allows the agent to regularly "phone home" to the management console where it reports its status and obtains new policy configuration changes for proactive real-time management.
• Support For Microsoft Vista - CA Threat Manager is certified to support Microsoft Vista OS/desktop.

Protect Your Network Devices With CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) - Learn more 

• Three Threat Protection Technologies in One - CA HIPS blends stand-alone firewall and intrusion detection and prevention capabilities to provide centralized proactive threat protection to counter online threats. This combination offers superior access control, policy enforcement, easy intrusion prevention management and deployment from a central location via a single interface.
• Behavior-based Real-time Protection - System administrators can use key functionality within CA HIPS to learn system behavior and prevent potentially malicious activity. This helps customize environments based on business requirements.
• Enterprise-focused Threat Management Solution - Environments can be protected against security breaches and ensure service continuity by determining what traffic is appropriate, what applications can communicate and even what behaviors and access rights on individual systems will be allowed or blocked. Centralized management functions allow for efficient and effective logging of all relevant events to help with compliance, reporting and investigations.
• USB Port Blocking - USB ports can be locked completely as well as locked out to certain types of USB plug-ins such as; specific make and model USB flash drives, iPod adaptors, NAS devices, etc. 
• Centralized Policy Management - CA HIPS offers excellent centrally-managed policy creation, deployment and maintenance to make ongoing administration of security policy across the enterprise easy and flexible. Access and control levels can be determined and applied to the system, groups of users or to an individual user. Policies can also be set to specific users when they are in specific roles or locations.

CA Gateway Security:   

CA Gateway Security r8.1 supports the following operating systems:

• Windows Vista - supported under the following conditions; if CleverPath Reporter and Ingres are not selected during the CA Gateway Security r8.1 installation for use with the CA Gateway Security r8.1 Outlook Plug-in Desktop Option. 
  Not supported under the following conditions; for use with ADCP or for use with the Role Based package
• Windows 2008 - supported under the following conitions; if CleverPath and Ingres are not selected during the CA Gateway Security r8.1 installation for use with the CA Gateway Security r8.1 Plug-in Desktop Option
  Not supported under the following conditions; for use with ADCP or for use with the Role Based package
• Windows 2003 Server (Standard or Enterprise Edition), SP1, SP2
• Windows XP Professional SP1, SP2
• Windows 2000 SP4

CA Gateway Security r8.1 supports the following databases:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
   

Recommended Hardware, One Computer
The following are the recommended hardware requirements to install all CA Gateway Security 8.1 components on a dedicated computer:

• Platform: 2.8 GHz Dual Processor Intal Xeon Server
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Disk Szie: 73 GB ULTRA Wide SCSI hard drive
• Media: CD-ROM
• Network Interface: One standard network interface card (NIC)

Minimum Hardware, Multiple Computers
If you choose a distributed installation, install the following components on individual computers:

• SMTP Content Manager
• HTTP/FTP Content Manager
• Central Reporter, Quarantine Manager and Manager Console (install on same computer)
• ADCP Agent
• ADCP Agent Distrubuted Source Client (Server Side)
• ADCP Agent Distributed Source Client (Client Side)

The following are minimum hardware requirements for each component installed on individual computers:

SMTP Content Manager Computer

• Platform: Pentium IV, 1.3 GHz CPU
• Memory: Minimum of 1 GB RAM
• Disk Size: 5.0 GB free disk space
• Media: CD-ROM
• Domain Name services: Domain Name services
• Network Interface: one standard network interface card (NIC)

HTTP/FTP Content Manager Computer

• Platform: Pentium IV, 1.3 GHz CPU
• Memory: Minimum of 1 GB RAM
• Disk Size: 5.0 GB free disk space
• Media: CD-ROM
• Network Interface: One standard NIC
  

Central Reporter, Quarantine Manager, Manager Console Computer

• Platform: Pentium IV, 1.3 GHz CPU
• Memory: Minimum of 1 GB RAM
• Disk Size: 5.0 GB free disk space
• Media: CD-ROM
• Domain Name services: Domain Name services (used by the Quarantine Manager)
• Network Interface: One standard NIC 

ADCP Agent

• Platform: Pentium III, 1.0 GHz CPU
• Memory: Minimum of 1.0 GB RAM
• Disk Size: 10.0 GB IDE hard drive, with at least 2 GB free disk space
• Network Interface: One standard NIC

ADCP Agent Distributed Source Client (Server Side)

• Platform: Pentium III, 1.0 GHz CPU
• Memory: Minimum of 1.0 GB RAM
• Disk Size: 10.0 GB IDE hard drive, with at least 2 GB free disk space
• Network: One standard NIC

ADCP Agent Distributed Source Client (Client Side)

• Platform: Pentium III, 500 MHz CPU
• Memory: Minimum of 256 MB RAM
• Disk Size: 500 MB free disk space
• Network Interface: One standard NIC

CA Threat Manager:

Client Computer

• Pentium 150 or higher, 64 MB free disk space and 512MB free RAM
• Windows NT 4.0 SP6A or later
• Windows 2000
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows XP Professional
• Windows Vista

Notes: tested on Windows 2008 server

Management Server

• Pentium 4 2.6 MHz or higher, 10GB free disk space and 1 GB RAM required
• Windows NT 4.0 SP6A or later
• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows 2000 Workstation
• Windows XP Professional
• Windows Vista

Anti-spyware Notes: Anti-Spyware engine not available on Non-Windows and/or 64-bit platforms.
Management Server Notes: Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000 Workstation not recommended as Management Server. 

CA Host Based Intrusion Prevention (HIPS):

CA HIPS Supported Server Platforms:

• Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows 2000 Server with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows XP Professional with SP2 (32/64 bit)
• Windows 2003 Server with SP2 (32/64 bit)
• Windows 2008 Server (32/64 bit)

Server Requirements:

• Intel Xeon 3 GHz processor or higher (x86/x64)
• 2 GB RAM
• 80 GB or larger hard disk
• 100/1000mbps network interface card

CA HIPS Suppored Client Platforms:

• Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows 2000 Server with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows XP Professional with SP2 or SP3 (32/64 bit)
• Window Vista with and without SP1 (32/64 bit)
• Windows 2003 Server SP2 (32/64 bit)
• Windows 2008 Server (32/64 bit)
• Database Support (for server side):
• Apache Derby 10.3 (included in the installation)
• HSQL 1.8.0
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Client Requirements

• 1.6 GHz processor
• 512MB of RAM
• 20 GB or larger hard disk

Java runtime (for server side):

• The Sun J2SE Runtime Environment 1.6 or higher (included on the CD)

Other:

• VMware