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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

McAfee System Protection

Enforce and monitor your system's security

Build your security risk management strategy on McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™). Single-agent, single-console management integrates your security solutions and data to give you real-time information, so that you make the right security decisions. For the first time ever, this enables an intelligent security and compliance optimization environment—delivered by McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, 4.0.

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Benefits and Features

Benefits:

  • Implement a strong SRM strategy
    Rely on proven architecture that delivers on the McAfee security risk management and integration strategy; ePO provides powerful cross-product integration, unified management, and reporting/auditing across our threat protection and compliance management products
  • Integration means cost savings
    Deploy a single, integrated agent and console across multiple endpoint security products to reduce the complexity of maintaining security product policies—which translates to cost savings
  • Get the answers at a glance with our dashboard
    Configure your own dashboard or use dashboards that are created and shared by others; our automated dashboard provides answers to the most pressing security questions of the day and drills down to immediate actions
  • Identify problems quickly
    Get answers about infections and threat events faster; ePO provides data-level integration between end points, networks, web, and email, streaming threat and vulnerability information into a single, central management hub
  • Increase confidence
    Rest assured that you have the level of security and compliance your organization requires as threats evolve and security challenges escalate
  • Accelerate response time
    Distribute the load of communication and updating out to the global network quickly and easily; IT administrators can update up to tens of thousands of systems in an hour or less-all verified by ePO's powerful reporting
  • Achieve operational efficiencies and business benefits
    Reduce staff resources and operating costs; you'll need significantly fewer deployed servers and IT administrators to manage your security products

Features:

  • Web-based console
    Access your console wherever you are without having to install any software on your system
  • Customizable dashboard
    View your customizable dashboard over a web browser; reports that users create can be aggregated to become dashboards-just click to view details; share dashboards with others too
  • Microsoft Active Directory synchronization
    Improve the usability of managing systems within ePO by synchronizing the Active Directory at any level within the directory structure; specific Organization Unit (OU) groups can be mirrored within ePO
  • Automate daily activities
    Schedule reports to run at any time; take advantage of idle time to run longer reports: automatically export reports into different formats and email in one operation
  • Actionable reports
    Select a system or a number of systems in the summary table of your report and take immediate action to resolve issues or perform tasks on targeted machines
  • Granular role-based access control
    Allow more people to take advantage of ePO data; roles are defined by permission sets, so system access can be restricted at any group level, not just site levels; users with restricted access only see reports, queries, and dashboards to which they have rights

Description:

The number of individual applications you need to address threats, risk, and compliance is surging. It’s virtually impossible for security teams to manually correlate and integrate all the data needed for an effective and timely response. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) delivers real-time information and application integration for network, desktop, and server security.

McAfee is the first to offer such a comprehensive and integrated security risk management approach, and ePO is at the center of it. ePO 4.0 brings you knowledge-driven security that is automated and actionable, so that you make more efficient and effective threat protection and compliance management decisions.

ePO 4.0 offers new capabilities in reporting and policy assignment that significantly reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies:

  • Access the web-based, customizable from just about anywhere. There’s no need to install any software on your system.
  • Dashboard-based custom configurable reports can be scheduled and emailed for improved information sharing.
  • Workflow enhancements, such as integrated reporting across your system and network security environment helps you make more informed security decisions.

ePolicy Orchestrator is the industry's most popular and respected security management technology used by more than 30,000 customers with nearly 54 million desktops and servers under management. ePO is an essential component of McAfee Total Protection solutions, providing central management for comprehensive system protection as well as for network security and compliance management.

System Requirements:

Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Server and console requirements

ePO Server:

  • CPU: Pentium III-class 1.0GHz or better (1.5GHz or better multi-processor or dual-core recommended)
  • RAM: 1GB minimum, 2-4GB recommended
  • OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4/Windows Server 2003 SP1/2 and R2 (32-bit)

ePO Web-Console:

  • CPU: Pentium Processor
  • RAM: 512MB minimum, 1 GB recommended
  • OS: Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
  • Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, SP1 or higher

Virtualization Platforms

  • VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (ESX 3.0.x)
  • Microsoft VirtualServer 2005 R2

 

Database software

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or SQL 2005 (including native mode)

  • Local or Remote install

  • 32-bit or 64-bit (64-bit is only supported when used as a remote database)

  • Microsoft SQL server 2005 Express Edition is included for smaller environments (-500 nodes)