McAfee Secure sites help keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams
Business Home → Products & Solutions → Network Security
McAfee Network Security Manager

McAfee Network Security Manager

Simple, centralized control for distributed McAfee intrusion prevention system sensors and Network Access Control appliances

Next Steps:

Overview

McAfee Network Security Manager gives you real-time visibility and control over all McAfee intrusion prevention systems and Network Access Control appliances deployed across your network. With its plug-and-play operation, easy-to-use functions, and web-based management, Network Security Manager saves you time, trouble, and operating costs.

Network Security Manager and Network Security Central Manager are available as a pre-configured, hardened appliance, or as a software-only option.

Network Security Manager delivers:

Fast deployment — Preconfigured templates, recommended-for-block policies, and a powerful and intuitive user interface enable administrators to rapidly bring up their network intrusion prevention system sensors and Network Access Control appliances.

Real-time control of real-time data — Manage, configure, and monitor all your McAfee intrusion prevention systems and Network Access Control appliances. An intuitive, customizable dashboard, accessible through any web browser, makes it easy — no matter where you are.

Faster time to resolution and faster time to confidence — Use up-to-the-minute input from all intrusion prevention system sensors to respond to threats quickly and make the right decisions.

Comprehensive protection — Count on proven management of intrusion prevention system configuration, policy, attack blocking, and automatic response actions for small networks, global enterprises, and high-traffic data centers.

Efficient compliance and reporting — Use our preconfigured threat-blocking policies or create your own policies. Easily define and automate distribution of custom graphical reports for audits and management reviews.

Features & Benefits

Gain consistent visibility and control

Manage and monitor multiple intrusion prevention devices from a single, centralized system. Get a complete threat and system summary in seconds from an at-a-glance dashboard.

Make better decisions faster

Get reliable, real-time information on all McAfee intrusion prevention system sensors and Network Access Control appliances across your network to accelerate your time to resolution and time to confidence. You can even simulate inline blocking to determine the potential impact when the intrusion prevention system recommends blocking an attack.

Streamline network management and lower costs

Reduce your administration and compliance workloads with integrated, automated policy creation and enforcement, plus enterprise-class auditing and reporting capabilities.

Implement policies to suit your needs

Create custom security policies for different enterprise locations, business units, and remote offices. Global policy editing makes it easy to set consistent policies across devices.

Block attacks from the minute you deploy

Stop hundreds of attacks right out of the box with 14 predefined intrusion prevention system security threat-blocking policies and hundreds of recommended-for-block intrusion prevention system signatures.

Demos / Tutorials

Tutorials

Quick Tips for Network Security Manager

For guidance on how to use this McAfee product, watch the Quick Tips video listed above.

Customer Stories

Liberty Behavioral Management

McAfee security risk management delivers comprehensive, integrated protection to Liberty Behavioral Management.

Highlights
  • Increased visibility of overall and site-by-site security posture
  • Protected IT investment by supporting existing McAfee, Microsoft, and Cisco products
  • Integrated with management tools to minimize deployment and maintenance expenses
  • Consolidated administration points to streamline operations
  • Provided centralized, automated reporting to ease audit processes

Read Full Case Study

Royal Caribbean Cruises

Royal Caribbean Cruises safeguards network traffic with McAfee Network Security Platform.

Highlights
  • Enabled robust perimeter security on shore and onboard while conserving bandwidth
  • Provided application-layer detection of malicious traffic
  • Dramatically reduced the time and risks of patch cycle management
  • Delivered centralized security policy management through an easy-to-use, web-based interface

Read Full Case Study

SIM University

SIM University uses McAfee Firewall Enterprise to protect its data center.

Highlights
  • Provide a multilayered defense against security threats
  • Amplify network bandwidth and dramatically improve throughput
  • Increase availability of learning management system to more than 99.9 percent
  • Free up IT administration time of security staff

Read Full Case Study

News / Events

Resources

Data Sheets

McAfee Network Security Manager

For a technical summary on the McAfee product listed above, please view the product data sheet.

McAfee Network Security Central Manager

McAfee Network Security Central Manager eliminates policy maintenance bottlenecks to support compliance and improve efficiency.

White Papers

Community

Forums

No results found

Blogs

  • How To Steal A Car: Hack It!
    Robert Siciliano - January 25, 2012
    No more jimmying doors with a Slim Jim, bricks through windows, extracting lock cylinders with a dent puller, or hot-wiring ignitions. Automobiles today are being built to include wireless capabilities that allow for remote unlock, remote start, and of course, there’s global positioning systems (GPS) and services like OnStar and ATX, which offer “telematics,” or Read more...
  • Urchins, LizaMoons, Tigers, and Bears
    Jim Walter - October 21, 2011
    In early April, I wrote about the famed “LizaMoon” SQL-injection attacks. I said it then, and I’ll say it again now: SQL-injection (SQLi) attacks are a constant. Some of these attacks are more visible than others.  Some adversaries find intelligent ways to hide their tracks so as not to splatter evidence of their misdeeds all over various search Read more...
  • Long Weekend Security Highlights: Morto Worms, Linux Hacks and a Lesson in Pronunciation
    Brian Contos - September 06, 2011
    This week’s (somewhat belated) Highlights are short and sweet with a quick review of the week’s top infosec topics. An Internet worm dubbed “Morto” was found spreading in the wild via Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The worm is the first of its kind capable of spreading via RDP and has so far impacted a few Read more...
  • Friday Security Highlights: Security Breach Showcase
    Brian Contos - August 26, 2011
    Welcome to another week in infosec with Friday Security Highlights. Yesterday from the @McAfeeBusiness Twitter handle, we live-tweeted the Dark Reading & InformationWeek virtual session The Aftermath of a Security Breach – Getting the Ship Righted Again. We tuned in as speakers and infosec thought leaders Jerry Johnson (@jerryjpnnl), Ernest McDuffie, and Rich Mogull (@rmogull) Read more...
  • The New Reality of Stealth Crimeware
    David Marcus - June 20, 2011
    Anyone who has been in information security recently knows that it has gotten easier for cybercriminals to build stealth crimeware. The malware we deal with on a regular basis grows ever more difficult to find, while high-end targeted attacks such as Stuxnet and other advanced persistent threats (APTs, the abbreviation I hate) are using ever Read more...
View All
United States - English