McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO)

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Overview:

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) software is a key component of the McAfee Security Management Platform, and the only enterprise-class software to provide unified management of endpoint, network, and data security. With end-to-end visibility and powerful automations that slash incident response times, McAfee ePO software dramatically strengthens protection and drives down the cost and complexity of managing risk and security.

Description:

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) is widely acknowledged as the most advanced and scalable security management software in the industry. Unifying security management through an open platform, McAfee ePO makes risk and compliance management simpler and more successful for organizations of all sizes. As the foundation of McAfee Security Management Platform, McAfee ePO enables customers to connect industry-leading security solutions to their enterprise infrastructure to increase visibility, gain efficiencies, and strengthen protection.

Customers use ePO’s flexible automation capabilities to streamline workflows, dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of security and compliance administration.

Security providers and system integrators can extend the reach of their offerings by incorporating their expertise and best practices with the ePO platform to deliver differentiated solutions.

Only McAfee ePO delivers:

• End-to-end visibility — Get a unified view of your security posture. A single point of reference for security data across endpoints, data, and networks provides immediate insight and shortens response times.
  
  
• Simplified security operations — Streamline workflows for proven efficiencies. Independent studies show ePO software helps organizations of every size streamline administrative tasks, ease audit fatigue, and reduce security management-related hardware costs.
  
  
• An open, extensible architecture — Leverage your existing IT infrastructure. McAfee ePO software connects management of both McAfee and third-party security solutions to your LDAP, IT operations, and configuration management tools.

View the McAfee's Single Console Management, ePolicy Orchestrator Demo

Benefits and Features:

Solutions:

Extensible Workflows Streamline Security and Compliance Processes

McAfee ePO allows IT administrators to centrally manage security for endpoints, networks, data, and compliance solutions from McAfee and third-party solutions. A key component of the open McAfee Security Management Platform, McAfee ePO helps companies master the security and compliance challenges of today and tomorrow.

McAfee ePO provides extensible workflow capabilities to increase administrators’ effectiveness so they can define and deploy security quickly, as well as respond to events and issues as they arise. With McAfee ePO, administrators can automate alerts, escalation paths, and remediation tasks, creating flexible workflows across security and IT operations tools. McAfee ePO eliminates the boundaries between security, processes, and people to drive down the cost and complexity of managing security.

Automation and workflow highlights:

• Automate policies, tasks, and escalations to streamline management processes and simplify management
• Communication within and between endpoints, networks, data, and compliance solutions reduces security gaps and management complexity
• Open application programming interfaces (APIs) integrate system management solutions to provide faster response time and better visibility
• Built-in product deployment capabilities and automated policy enforcement secure your environment quickly—and keep it secure
• Rogue system detection identifies new systems that gain network access, enabling faster time to protection
• Integration with Microsoft Active Directory simplifies role-based administration and automates the addition of new systems requiring security

Fast Response Times and Confidence in Your Security and Compliance Posture

For companies of every size, McAfee ePO provides a central point of reference for an organization’s entire security environment. A single web interface leverages security data from multiple points across the enterprise, surfacing issues that are not visible using a siloed approach.

Administrators can tune McAfee ePO to streamline their jobs, customizing interactive dashboards, automating actionable reports, and adjusting the user interface itself to spot issues quickly, reduce response times, and maintain compliance. Role-based permission sets in McAfee ePO ensure that each administrator has only the appropriate controls and access to support business needs with speed and confidence. End-to-end visibility:

• A single point of reference for enterprise security enables you to quickly identify and understand relationships between security events throughout your environment
• The web interface provides flexibility for managing security enterprise wide
• Customizable dashboards and user interface provide personalized views of the security status and trends
• Automated reports and personalized dashboards provide clear, current, role-based visibility into security status across the organization
• Role-based permissions ensure appropriate access and control for all administrators by product, region, and function

Enterprise-Class Architecture Dramatically Reduces Costs with Proven Scalability

As the industry’s most scalable security management software, McAfee ePO reduces the operational and capital costs of security management. McAfee ePO allows enterprises to manage up to hundreds of thousands of devices with a single server, dramatically reducing costs associated with enterprise deployments. The multitiered architecture, failover support, and load-balancing capabilities with McAfee ePO help reduce bandwidth costs and ensure reliability of the management infrastructure.

Scalability highlights:

• Highly scalable server allows you to manage more with less
• Multitiered architecture helps reduce network bandwidth and ensures that critical data and updates are always close to the systems that need them
• Agent handlers allow management of endpoint systems, even when disconnected from the network
• Policy sharing across servers and roll-up reporting reduce administrative time

System Requirements:

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

Platform Support

Server O/S: 32-bit:

• Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter
• Windows Server 2003 with SP2 Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter

Server O/S: 64-bit:

• Windows Server 2008 with SP2 Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter
• Windows 2008 Small Business Server Premium
• Windows Server 2003 with SP2 Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter

Browser:

• Firefox 3.5
• Firefox 3.6
• Internet Explorer 7.0
• Internet Explorer 8.0

Network Support:

• IPv4
• IPv6

Virtual Server:

• VMware ESX 3.5.x Update 4
• VMware ESX 4.0 Update 1
• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 with SP1
• Citrix XenServer 5.5 Update 2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

Database:

• SQL Server 2008 with SP1/SP2/R2 Standard, Enterprise, Workgroup, Express
• SQL Server 2005 with SP3 Standard, Enterprise, Workgroup, Express

Additional Requirements

• 1 GB free disk space (2 GB recommended)
• 1 GB RAM (2-4 GB recommended)
• Intel Premium 4 Processor or later, 1.3 GHz or faster
• Monitor: 1024x768, 256 color, VGA
• NIC: 100 MB or higher
• File System: NTFS recommended
• Dedicated server recommended if managing more than 250 systems
• IP Address: McAfee recommends using a static IP address

Documentation:

Download the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Datasheet (PDF).