McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktops

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktops 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.

Description:

Managing security and controlling connectivity for the desktops and laptops that your employees use every day can be a real IT headache. Employees can inadvertently introduce worms, spyware, and other threats into your network through their desktops or laptops. The other side of the coin is that desktops are commonly the target of exploits like buffer-overflow attacks. This can compromise your data, put employees at risk, and result in lost productivity.

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention monitors and blocks such unwanted activity and makes it easier to keep desktops safe with multiple proven methods—system firewall, signature analysis, and behavioral analysis. And you can manage it all from one centralized console.

With automatic signature updates and zero-day protection, you get advanced vulnerability-shielding capabilities. Patching systems is something you will do less often and less urgently. You’ll also find it easier to comply with legal regulations. With a single agent for host intrusion prevention on your desktops, Host Intrusion Prevention is easy to deploy, easy to configure, and easy to manage.

Our stateful firewall for Microsoft Windows proactively defends and controls your desktops and laptops to combat new threats that anti-virus alone cannot defend against.  With connection aware policies you can apply different levels of protection depending on how and where a system connects to the network (wired or wireless).  McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention can quarantine and restrict network access to systems if it is found to be out of date or running old policies.

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 desktop protection.

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.

Benefits and Features:

System Requirements:

These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Operating System

• 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

Documentation:

Download the McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention Datasheet (PDF).