Shared threat intelligence across multiple security solutions
McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange optimizes threat detection and response by closing the gap from malware encounter to containment from days, weeks, and months down to milliseconds.
Secure your system in real time
This collaborative system operationalizes threat intelligence data in real time, delivering protection to all points in your enterprise as new threats emerge.
Combine threat information sources
Leveraging the Data Exchange Layer (DXL), instantly share threat data to all your connected security solutions, including third-party solutions.
Get adaptive detection
McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange provides adaptive threat detection on unknown files, resulting in faster time to protection and lower costs.
Supercharge endpoint protection
Broader, collective threat intelligence makes accurate file execution decisions and customizes policies based on your risk tolerance level.
Uniting security components to act as one
Gain immediate visibility
Integrated intelligence from multiple sources combined with contextual data from the encounter enable better decision-making to handle never-before-seen and potentially malicious files.
Operationalize threat intelligence in real time
Combine global imported threat information from McAfee Global Threat Intelligence and third parties with locally collected intelligence from your security solutions and share across your network in real time.
Create a collaborative threat intelligence ecosystem
DXL joins disparate security solutions. Protection against an emerging attack is propagated instantly and shared to both McAfee and third-party security products.
System requirements
Platform Support
McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange consists of the following components
- McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange Server 2.1
- Data Exchange Layer Client 2.0 or later
- McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange Module 1.0.1
- For VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Patch 5
- For Endpoint Security 10.1 or later
Additional requirements for McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange include:
- McAfee Endpoint Protection
- McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8, Patch 5
- McAfee Endpoint Security 10.1 or later
- McAfee Security Management
- McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 5.1.1 or later
- Virtualization Infrastructure
- VMWare vSphere 5.5 or later with ESXi 5.1 or later
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Security that Plays Well with Others
Our open, integrated architecture can help legacy point products play well together, optimize the effectiveness of your entire security infrastructure, and simplify, unify, and advance the threat defense lifecycle.
McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange
McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange optimizes threat prevention, closing the gap from encounter to containment for advanced targeted attacks from days, weeks, and months, down to milliseconds.
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