McAfee Web Gateway WG5000 and WG5500 Appliances
McAfee, Inc. - FIPS 140 #1645
The McAfee Web Gateway is a high-performance, enterprise-strength proxy security appliance family that provides the caching, authentication, administration, authorization controls and deep-level content security filtering required by today’s most demanding enterprises. McAfee Web Gateway WG5000 and WG5500 Appliances deliver scalable deployment flexibility and performance. McAfee Web Gateway WG5000 and WG5500 Appliances deliver comprehensive security for all aspects of Web 2.0 traffic.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 1645
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 2
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- McAfee, Inc.
- Module type
- Hardware
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- EWA - Canada
- First validated
- December 15, 2011
- Versions
- 5000 [1] and 5500 [2]; EWG-5000-FIPS-KIT [1] and EWG-5500-FIPS-KIT [2]; 7.1.0
- Caveat
- When operated in FIPS mode with the tamper evident seals and opacity baffles installed and initializing the module as specified in Section 3.1 of the Security Policy
Algorithms
- AES
- DSA
- HMAC
- RNG
- RSA
- SHS
- Triple-DES
Algorithm families of the CAVP certificates listed for this module, plus post-quantum algorithms named in its documents.
CVEs that may affect this product
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Documents and sources
Source: sec-certs.org (CRoCS, Masaryk University), from NIST CMVP and the Common Criteria Portal - dataset of September 21, 2026 - synced October 15, 2026
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