McAfee System Protection McAfee® Entercept® Server and Desktop Agents 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. See Key Benefits See System Requirements

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
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WProduct 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Desktop Application Protection Desktop agents contain unique protection for commonly exploited applications like Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook
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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
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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
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Complements existing security infrastructure bEntercept will not interfere with existing security tools, and does not require changes to operating systems, applications or data.
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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

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

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

Solaris

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

HP-UX Agents - Supported Platforms

HP-UX 11i/11.0 (64-bit PA-RISC)

Linux

	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

Applications - Web Server

	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