Next Generation Host Intrusion Prevention!

McAfee® Entercept® agents protects desktops and servers against zero-day and known attacks. As the only host intrusion prevention system (IPS) combining behavioral rules, signatures and a system firewall, McAfee Entercept provides unmatched proactive threat protection of critical systems and applications, preserving the confidentiality of data and ensuring business availability.

Key Benefits

Zero-day attack protection
McAfee Entercept agents provide zero-day protection against new attacks with no updates, significantly decreases the criticality of patch deployment and giving enterprises time to research, test and deploy patches.

Risk Mitigation
The three complementary attack prevention technologies: behavioral rules, attack signatures and system firewall, proactively blocks threats before they can compromise critical systems and data, rather than simply detecting attacks after the fact

Optimize cost of ownership
Entercept lowers costs by mitigating patch criticality and minimizing resources needed to deploy and maintain protection

Ensure business availability & data confidentiality
Preconfigured, customizable policies enable maximum accuracy of detection for any environment, enabling business to protect critical systems and data, and satisfy regulatory requirements


Product Features

Three layers of protection
Entercept deploys the most robust protection available to protect enterprises from attack. Behavioral rules that block zero-day and enforce proper operating system and application behavior, Signatures that block known attacks and provide administrators complete understanding of the threats they face, and a system firewall that ensures compliance to application and system access policies.

Buffer overflow exploit prevention
Patented McAfee Entercept technology prevents code execution resulting from buffer overflow attacks, one of the most common methods of attacking servers and desktops.

Application Shielding and Enveloping
Prevents compromise of applications and their data, as well as prevents the application from being used to attack other applications, even by user with administrative privileges.

Web Server and Database Server Protection
Server agents contain unique protection engineered specifically for to protect Web Servers and Database Servers from attacks like directory traversal and SQL injection attacks

Desktop Application Protection
Desktop agents contain unique protection for commonly exploited applications like Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook
Customizable policy templates
Entercept ships with a set of fully configured default templates for rapid product deployment. It includes powerful customization features to modify policies as needed, virtually eliminating false positives and the risk of blocking business-critical process

Enterprise scalability
Deploy and manage up to 10,000 agents with a single McAfee Entercept management server; manage up to 100,000 agents with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® 3.5

Complements existing security infrastructure
Entercept will not interfere with existing security tools, and does not require changes to operating systems, applications or data.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for McAfee Entercept Server and Desktop Agents

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

Desktop Agents - Windows: (English, Fr, & De OS Versions Only)

• Windows XP SP1 or 2
• Windows 2000 Professional
• Windows NT Workstation

• Windows XP SP1 or 2
• Windows 2003 Server SP1
• Windows 2000 Professional/ Server and Advanced Server
• Windows NT 4 Server and Enterprise Server

• Solaris 7/8/9 architecture 4u (32-bit and 64-bit kernel)
• Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER (SPARC compliant)

• HP-UX 11i/11.0 (64-bit PA-RISC)

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS/DS/WS
• Supported Kernnels: 2.4.21-4.EL, 2.4.21-4.EL-smp, 2.4.21-27.EL, 2.4.21-27.EL-smp

• Microsoft IIS 4, 5, and 6
• Apache 1.3.6 and later, 2.0.42 and later
• Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6
• iPlanet 4.0, 4.1
• SunOne 6
• Note: Linux supports Apache and Sun webservers only