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McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for desktop
Proactively secure desktops against zero-day attacks
Exploits and vulnerabilities are more complex, and they’re released more quickly than ever before. Anti-virus alone can’t do the job. Defend your desktops and laptops from known and new zero-day attacks with McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention. Part of McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint, it boosts security, lowers costs by reducing the frequency and urgency of patching, and simplifies compliance.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Guard desktops against rampant complex threats with layered protection
Three layers of protection—behavioral and signature-based intrusion prevention (IPS), stateful firewall, and application control—prevent loss of confidential data by securing desktops from targeted attacks; it also defends against known and unknown zero-day exploits - Security for workers on the go
Protect your mobile workforce with nonstop security that travels with the laptops - Patch less frequently and less urgently
Have more time to research, prioritize, test, and deploy patches by using the power of McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention against new vulnerabilities and exploits: your IT staff maintain a high level of security but patch less frequently, less urgently, and on their own schedule - Manage centrally—easily and more effectively
Optimize and simplify management with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, our single, centralized console, which helps you oversee and administer all your protection; full integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® saves you money and time with significant operational efficiencies - Integrated protection for your desktops and laptops
McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention is an integral part of Total Protection for Endpoint, McAfee's comprehensive endpoint security solution; it’s also fully integrated into McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator®, the centralized, unified security risk management console that saves organizations money and time with significant operational efficiencies - Simplify compliance efforts with greater visibility and control
Monitor your security status and prove to stakeholders that all host intrusion prevention measures are in place for internal and regulatory compliance
Features:
- Broadest intrusion prevention coverage
Behavioral protection secures endpoints against unknown attacks; signature protection identifies and blocks known attacks; stateful firewall applies policies, bars unsolicited inbound traffic, and controls outbound traffic: application control specifies which applications can or cannot be run - Custom, connection-based policies safeguard laptops when they’re off the network
Apply different levels of security using rules based on the endpoint’s connection—on the corporate network, over VPN, or from a public network—with connection-aware protection; use quarantine mode to block remote users that fail security checks and prevent them from accessing the network - Award-winning management technology
Access centralized event monitoring reports, dashboard, and workflow with ePolicy Orchestrator; deploy, manage, and update agents and policies across various operating system and administer endpoint protection with one web-based console - Gather all the details you need for compliance processes
Collect attack details, complete with timestamps, for prompt compliance reporting, auditing, investigations, and response; customized dashboards deliver real-time compliance status and produce clear, easy-to-read reports for auditors and other stakeholders - Vulnerability shielding
Automatic security content updates target specific vulnerabilities and recognize unknown exploits and stop them from executing; security content updates do not require system reboots; updating signatures is similar to updating .DAT files
Testimonials
“McAfee's is the most complete offering of the three we examined. McAfee also has the easiest-to-use management suite of these products, something we feel is important.”
—Don MacVittie
Description:
Managing security and patching to defend against emerging zero-day threats that anti-virus solutions can’t handle is painful and costly. The volume of vulnerabilities increased by 45 percent since 20031. Thirty-two percent of zero-day exploits are released within three days of vulnerability discovery2. And, with the average enterprise taking upwards of 30 days or more to deploy desktop and laptop patches3, how do you keep up?
McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for desktop helps you proactively protect desktops from complex threats. Host Intrusion Prevention monitors and blocks unwanted activity and protects corporate assets like desktops and laptops, applications, customer information, and databases. It uses multiple proven methods, including behavioral and signature analysis, a stateful firewall that sets security parameters based on how users connect to the network, and application control. Laptops are also protected. Different levels of protection are applied based on connection (corporate network, VPN, or public network), and quarantine mode prevents remote users from accessing the network if their device fails checks.
Automatic signature updates and zero-day protection give you advanced vulnerability-shielding capabilities, so that you patch systems less often and less urgently. Better protection against exploits targeting new vulnerabilities means your IT staff has more time for planning, testing, and deploying patches. You’ll also find it easier to comply with legal and industry regulations.
Standalone products have cumbersome, non-integrated management platforms, making it difficult to deploy the comprehensive protection against today's blended threats. Host Intrusion Prevention is part of McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint, which integrates with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® for centralized reporting and management that’s accurate, scalable, easy to use and works with other McAfee and non-McAfee products.
1 National Vulnerability Database
2 McAfee® Avert® Labs
System Requirements:
Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
System requirements
- Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3
- Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3
- Windows XP Tablet PC
- Windows Vista with Service Pack 1, 32-bit and 64-bit
