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Overview
McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktops safeguards your business against complex security threats that may otherwise be unintentionally introduced or allowed by desktops and laptops. Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktops is easy to deploy, configure, and manage.
Comprehensive security — Three layers of protection (signature analysis, behavioral analysis, and dynamic stateful firewall with global reputation technology) prevent intrusions, protect assets, and defend your company against known and emerging exploits, including zero-day attacks.
Advanced vulnerability shielding — Stronger protection against exploits that target new vulnerabilities means your IT staff has more time for planning, testing, and deploying patches.
Automatic updates — Security content updates are delivered automatically to target specific vulnerabilities and block emerging threats (including buffer-overflow attacks) from executing.
Customized security control — Easily apply different levels of protection based on location (corporate network, VPN, or public network). Host Intrusion Prevention travels with the laptop and can provide varying degrees of protection, depending on whether you are in the office, at home, or on the road.
Enhanced security powered by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence — McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) is a comprehensive cloud-based threat intelligence service. Already integrated into McAfee security products, it works in real time, 24 hours a day, to protect customers against cyberthreats across all vectors — file, web, message, and network. McAfee GTI offers the broadest threat data, most robust data correlation, and most complete product integration in the industry. McAfee’s GTI network allows enabled products to evaluate threats on multiple vectors in real time, leading to faster identification of threats and higher capture rates. Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktop uses the McAfee GTI network connection reputation service to identify suspicious domains/IP addresses that are infected or hosting malware attacks, and block those attacks.
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Keep your business running smoothly
Prevent intrusions, protect assets, and enforce intrusion prevention system (IPS) and zero-day threat protection coverage at all levels: network, endpoint, and application. Integrated reputation-based global intelligence in the desktop firewall (Microsoft Windows only) blocks threats such as botnets and denial of service before attacks can occur.
Get the broadest intrusion prevention coverage
Trust McAfee behavioral protection to secure endpoints against unknown attacks. Our signature protection identifies and blocks known attacks while a stateful firewall applies policies, bars unsolicited inbound traffic, and controls outbound traffic.
Save time and cut costs with simplified, centralized management
Protect and manage all desktops across your entire enterprise with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) console, the scalable, centralized platform for easy deployment, management, reporting, and auditing.
Create custom, location-based policies
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.
Spot and block new vulnerabilities
Count on automatic security content updates targeting specific vulnerabilities to recognize unknown exploits and stop them from executing. Security content updates do not require system reboots, and updating signatures is similar to updating .DAT files.
Avoid trouble with prioritized patching
Reduce patching frequency and deploy patches on a priority basis for the most effective and efficient use of IT resources.
Prove compliance without headaches
Use McAfee’s easy-to-understand actionable views, workflow, event monitoring, and reporting to quickly remediate threats and maintain compliance.
System Requirements
These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows (English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, traditional Chinese)
- Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1) (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows XP Home with SP3
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional with SP3
- Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC
- Microsoft Windows 7
Customer Stories
Riverside Healthcare
Riverside Healthcare protects more than 1,950 endpoints including mobile devices with McAfee software.
Highlights
- Optimize mobility management of corporate data
- Protect corporate data from the data center to the mobile device
- Set mobile policies that work while providing flexibility to users
Scottrade
Scottrade partners with McAfee to secure customer data.
Highlights
- Eliminated network vulnerabilities and protected customer information
- Improved monitoring and control of workstations and servers via a single management console
- Streamlined and accelerated security management and vulnerability assessment
- Simplified deployment, patches, and upgrades
- Helped Scottrade garner multiple awards for customer satisfaction and IT excellence
TeliaSonera AB
A leading telecommunications group in the Nordic and Baltic regions strengthens anti-virus security with McAfee.
Highlights
- Protected 23,000 endpoints against viruses
- Enforced blacklisting of potentially malicious applications
- Delivered powerful functionality, ease of use, and simplified administration
- Helped secure the patch update process
News / Events
News
- McAfee Leads in Protection Against Advanced Threats
February 27, 2013Topics : Endpoint Protection
- McAfee Leads in Enterprise Endpoint Protection and Performance; Unifies Customer Approach to Emerging Security Threats
May 2, 2011Topics : Endpoint Protection, Security-as-a-Service (SaaS)
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Community
Forums
McAfee Communities : All Content - Host Intrusion Prevention
- HIPS 8 HF 803520 disables Windows Firewall
1 day ago - 17 posts - Help with creating a signature
1 day ago - 2 posts - How to test HIPS
1 year ago - 20 posts - Custom Signatures
2 days ago - 1 Post - Webinar Questions ("Host IPS Client Troubleshooting", May 16) FINAL
3 days ago
Blogs
- SQL Slammer Worm Regains Momentum
Archive - April 20, 2011
At McAfee Labs every day we monitor millions of intrusion prevention systems (IPS) alerts from our sensors around the world. From these alerts, we often see interesting global data and trends. Recently, ISC noticed a sudden decline of Slammer traffic in the wild, which we also noticed on our sensors. The infamous Slammer was a Read more... - Lost the Keys to Okena?
Archive - June 18, 2010
On June 11, Cisco announced end-of-life and end-of-sale of the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) ending months of speculation. Cisco will continue to support CSA for three years but without product enhancements. CSA is a host intrusion prevention product for endpoints and servers made originally by Okena and which was acquired by Cisco in 2003. Cisco CSA Read more...