McAfee Client Proxy 2.3.5

McAfee Client Proxy is endpoint client software for Microsoft Windows that is an essential component of the McAfee Web Protection hybrid deployment solution. The Client Proxy technology allows you to apply your organization's web security policy to a computer, whether it is located inside or outside your network.

What is the Web Protection hybrid solution?
The hybrid solution allows organizations to switch between the network-based and cloud-based security solutions provided by McAfee Web Gateway and McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service (McAfee WGCS), respectively.

Web gateways and other appliances do not protect equipment after it leaves your organization's network. For example, when users in your organization take laptops on business trips or work from home, they leave the network's secure zone.
Client Proxy is installed on the computers of end users in your organization. Using the location-awareness settings that you configure, Client Proxy determines whether the computers are located inside or outside your network or are connected to your network by VPN. In a hybrid deployment, Client Proxy lets web requests sent by users working inside the network or connected to the network by VPN pass. These requests are automatically redirected for filtering to a Web Gateway appliance installed on the network. Web requests sent by users working outside the network, on the other hand, are redirected to McAfee WGCS for filtering.

How Client Proxy works:
Using location-awareness settings, Client Proxy protects the computers of end users in your organization, whether they are located inside or outside your network. Client Proxy software redirects, blocks, or lets pass web traffic and network communications according to the policy you configure and location of the end-user computer.

Client Proxy workflow
When an end user is working inside your organization's network, Client Proxy software:
1 Recognizes that the end user is working inside your organization's network
2 Remains passive, allowing web traffic and network communications to pass to Web Gateway for filtering When an end user is working outsid your organization's network, Client Proxy software:
1 Recognizes that the end user is working outside your organization's network
2 Redirects all web traffic and network communications to the McAfee WGCS service

Deployment options
Client Proxy consists of server and client software that is deployed using the McAfee ePO or McAfee ePO Cloud management platform. Deployment details depend on which management platform is used.

Server software
The server software is installed on the McAfee ePO server and adds the Client Proxy server functionality to the McAfee ePO platform. Because the server software extends the McAfee ePO functionality, it is called the extension software or extension.

Client software
The client software is checked in to the McAfee ePO Master Repository as a package and then deployed to the client computers in your organization. Client software and computers are also called endpoint software and computers, respectively. Endpoint computers are sometimes called the endpoint.

Integration with Endpoint Security
Client Proxy is available as a standalone product or integrated with Endpoint Security. When integrated, Client Proxy joins the Endpoint Security family, including:
- McAfee Endpoint Security Threat Prevention
- McAfee Endpoint Security Firewall
- McAfee Endpoint Security Web Control

Whether standalone or integrated, Client Proxy is managed using McAfee ePO and the management tasks are the same. When Client Proxy is integrated with Endpoint Security:
1 The client software package is deployed to the endpoint and installed as a module on the Endpoint Solution Platform.
2 The administrator can configure Web Control so that it is disabled while Client Proxy is installed and running.On a Windows-based computer, you can view the integration status of Client Proxy by opening the About McAfee Client Proxy window. If EspMode is set to ON, Client Proxy is installed and running on the Endpoint Security Platform.