McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktops

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktops Overview:

How do you successfully manage security and connectivity policies for desktops and laptops in a global enterprise? Desktop protection can be a challenge, as any security specialist can tell you. McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention offers a sweeping three-part defense strategy—stateful firewall for Microsoft Windows, behavioral rules, and signature analysis—managed from one central console.

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  McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention can quarantine and restrict network access to systems if it is found to be out of date or running old policies.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.

Benefits and Features:

System Requirements:

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

System Requirements:

• Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2
• Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
• Windows XP Tablet PC
• Windows Vista, 32-bit and 64-bit

Documentation:

Download the McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention Datasheet (PDF).