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McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for servers

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Maximize server uptime. Guard critical assets. Maintain business availability.

Your corporate servers are critical to your operation. They house your most valuable information assets and keep your business alive. Don’t let your servers go down or succumb to identity theft and corporate espionage. With McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention, you get multiple layers of protection to keep your servers up and running and secure.

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Benefits and Features

Benefits:

  • An aggressive, comprehensive defense strategy for your servers
    Three layers of protection—behavioral rules, signatures analysis, and stateful firewall for Microsoft Windows—prevent intrusions, protect assets, and keep your servers up and running; it defends your servers against unknown zero-day exploits
  • Protect enterprise servers worldwide
    McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention is centrally managed and scalable, so that you can deploy it across your entire enterprise for complete global protection with multiple language support
  • Stay ahead of threats with prioritized patch management
    Use the power of McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention against new vulnerabilities and exploits when they hit for more time to research, test, and deploy patches
  • Lower your costs and simplify management
    Reduce the frequency and urgency of patching systems; and, with its centralized streamlined management, you also lower system maintenance costs

Features:

  • Web and database server protection
    Protect web and database servers from attacks like directory traversal and SQL injection attacks by using unique McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention protection technology
  • 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
  • Advanced application protection
    McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention puts an “envelope” around an application to prevent it from communicating with other applications; this prevents applications from being leveraged in any type of attack
  • Prevents buffer-overflow exploits
    McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention uses a patented host intrusion technology to prevent buffer-overflow attacks, one of the most common methods of attacking servers and desktops
  • Firewall protection
    Monitor both inbound and outbound network traffic on servers with the stateful Windows firewall; keep an eye on and protect applications that are installed on a server

Testimonials

"McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention is vital to protecting critical systems that run our databases, including human resource applications, operating room schedules, financial systems, and patient records."

—Ash Shehata - Director of Information Security and Telecom.

Description:

Your servers—and the critical assets they contain—are under constant siege. Worms, spyware, viruses, exploits, and other threats can compromise your data and cripple your servers, with potentially devastating consequences for your business.

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention monitors and blocks such unwanted activity. Host Intrusion Prevention maintains server uptime and protects corporate assets like applications, customer information, and databases. It uses multiple proven methods, including signature analysis, behavioral analysis, and a stateful firewall for Microsoft Windows that sets security parameters based on how the user connects to the network. 

With automatic signature updates and zero-day protection, you get advanced vulnerability-shielding capabilities. And patching systems is something you will do less often and less urgently. You’ll also find it easier to comply with legal regulations.

Standalone products have cumbersome, unintegrated management platforms, making it difficult to deploy the comprehensive protection you need against today's blended threats. Host Intrusion Prevention integrates into your existing McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® management platform, for accurate, scalable, and easy-to-use advanced server protection.

System Requirements:

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

System Requirements

  • Microsoft Windows (English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese)

    • Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 3 or later
    • Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server with Service Pack 3 or later
    • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
    • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 3 or later
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with Service Pack 2 or later, 32-bit and 64-bit
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise, 32-bit and 64-bit
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard with Service Pack 2, 32-bit and 64-bit
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard, 32-bit and 64-bit
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web with Service Pack 1 or later
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Web

     

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (32-bit only)

    The following Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel modules are supported:

    • 2.6.9-22.EL
    • 2.6.9-22.EL-smp
    • 2.6.9-34.EL
    • 2.6.9-34.EL-smp
    • 2.6.9-42.EL
    • 2.6.9-42.EL-smp

     

    Sun Solaris

    • SPARC Solaris 8, sun4u (32-bit or 64-bit kernel)
    • SPARC Solaris 9, sun4u (32-bit or 64-bit kernel)
    • SPARC Solaris 10, sun4u

     

    Supported web server platforms:

    IIS 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 (Microsoft Windows)

    • Apache 1.3.6 and later Web Server
    • Apache 2.0.42 or later Web Server
    • Sun ONE Web Server 6.0
    • Sun Java Web Server 6.1

     

    Supported database server platforms:

    • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (Windows) SP3a, SP4