Features
McAfee offers small business clients a range of powerful cybersecurity features.
On-Demand Scanning
McAfee Small Business Security offers a host of options for scanning your network and devices for threats and vulnerabilities. Users can leverage quick scans, which target typical points of access for IT infrastructure.
Full scans, which are far more exhaustive, let you review all the drives and folders on a given system. It’s considerably more cumbersome but powerful enough to detect almost any threat lurking within your company network. Custom scans let you check specific files and folders.
Flexible Licensing Model
A great perk of McAfee for small business users is the flexible licensing. A single subscription allows a business to protect up to five desktop computers (Windows or macOS). Furthermore, the license covers any number of iOS and Android devices, including phones and tablets.
Customers can acquire protection for their entire operation in one fell swoop. Licensing is available for single one-year periods and must be renewed at the end of each one.
Multi-Layered Protection
Modern business doesn’t merely exist within the confines of a brick-and-mortar store. McAfee Small Business Security offers multi-layered protection for detecting and neutralizing threats in a variety of real-world situations.
That includes local protection on business IT infrastructure but extends much further. For instance, McAfee secures your business email accounts and web browsers while also keeping intruders at bay with a robust firewall. It’s the kind of all-inclusive security companies need.
Performance and Protection
When it comes to protection, McAfee is a fairly comprehensive security suite for business owners. The software consumes relatively few system resources, guaranteeing smooth operation. It also includes tools to boost your overall system performance.
Scheduled Scans
Scheduled scans are a standard line of defense for your business’s IT assets. McAfee allows users to schedule regular exhaustive full system scans.
The best part of scheduled scans is that they take away responsibility from the staff. Employees don’t need to remember to scan their devices to be protected, which improves overall security across the business.
Real-Time Scanning
During standard operations, employees and clients may unwittingly introduce threats to business devices. McAfee provides powerful real-time scanning, keeping all protected devices secure throughout the day.
Real-time scanning can detect and quarantine threats as they appear. It offers a degree of protection that scheduled scans simply aren’t capable of providing.
McAfee Web Boost
The modern web is filled with all sorts of malicious, inefficient, or glitchy code. Many websites are greatly bogged down by a ton of videos, GIFs, widgets, and apps.
This can make employees waste considerable amounts of time completing basic tasks. McAfee Web Boost optimizes your browser’s handling of resources and scripts, keeping things smooth.
McAfee App Boost
Certain apps can slow your system down to a crawl. The McAfee App Boost allows businesses to optimize the functioning of those that are key to business operations.
The software automatically detects apps that stand to benefit from a performance boost. That includes extra resources and a higher processing priority.
Privacy and Security
McAfee Small Business Security offers a host of tools for companies to protect their data and secure IT assets.
McAfee Firewall
The McAfee Firewall keeps your business network secure from would-be intruders. It’s a sophisticated tool capable of monitoring your local traffic, offering smart advice and advanced options. An automated threat detection algorithm makes it easy to stay on top of attacks.
Additionally, many business applications and software suites require unfettered network access. The McAfee Firewall incorporates a complex system of exclusions, exceptions, and white lists for all your business tools.
McAfee QuickClean
The McAfee QuickClean tool offers businesses a fast and simple way to get rid of a number of harmful files. From cumbersome temporary files to trouble tracking cookies, these files can terribly bog down your business IT assets
QuickClean sweeps through the device in question, seeking out all such cookies and temporary files for swift removal. Better yet, the cleanings can be scheduled in advance, so the entire network is always spiffy.
McAfee Anti-Spam
McAfee for small businesses provides an excellent tool for keeping all forms of spam in check. Spam filters can be set to different levels, geared for diverse usage cases. This ensures companies can attain optimal security levels without interfering with business operations.
Anti-spam measures include a dedicated toolbar, custom filtering rules for browsers and webmail, and anti-phishing email processing. There’s a broad set of options to fiddle with, which is perfect for all kinds of industries.
McAfee File Shredder
Important attack vectors for a business are misplaced sensitive files. Businesses have plenty of them with private, customer, supplier, and financial data.
McAfee allows companies to securely shred their files, ensuring that they can’t be recovered later. For a business of any size, that’s the difference between security and vulnerability. The File Shredder utility is extremely straightforward and very easy to use.
