• Centralized Management-ProtectionPilot - Designed for small- to medium-size businesses, McAfee ProtectionPilot is a centralized tool that provides a simple, proactive approach to the deployment and ongoing management of threat protection. Central to the McAfee range of SMB Edition solutions, McAfee ProtectionPilot guides you through the mystery of deploying, monitoring, and managing threat protection, keeping it in place and up-to-date

• Realtime Monitoring - Locating out-of-date systems and checking for malware infections are effortless with the ProtectionPilot Interactive Security Dashboard. At the click of a button, compliance and threat detection activity are easily viewed for all systems, groups, or individuals. More detailed information is obtained easily with the click-through capability of the interactive dashboard. Critical information is easily viewed on the screen or printable for later reference.
  
  
• Automatic Enforcement - ProtectionPilot is always at work, automatically enforcing threat protection settings and policies on each system. In addition to regular checks for any policy or setting changes with the central server, the ProtectionPilot agent also enforces compliance on each local system-the agent automatically checks the local system to ensure the protection is correctly configured and installed. Automatic policy enforcement helps ensure the protection is effective and removes possible weak links, such as end users who can change settings or disable critical protection software.
  
  
• Do It Now! Management Task Menu - Ongoing administration is made simple, quick, and effective with the Do It Now! approach of the management task menu. Tasks like deploying protection, scanning for viruses, emergency updating, enforcing settings and policies, and checking the status of a system can all be performed immediately with the click of button via the Management Task menu.
  
  
• No Security Knowledge Required - ProtectionPilot installation and management tasks are all intelligently wizard-driven, taking the mystery out of deployment and ongoing management of threat protection. Following installation, protection will be deployed and settings and policies will be implemented-domains are automatically recognized at initial installation, making locating and deploying to systems across the network simple and straightforward.
  
  

Product Features

Automatic updating
ProtectionPilot keeps a constant vigil, automatically checking with McAfee for any new threat or security updates on an hourly basis. These updates are then immediately deployed to all systems - no interaction is required by the administrator.

Interactive Security Dashboard
Locating out-of-date systems and checking for virus infections is effortless with the Interactive Security Dashboard. At the click of a button, you can easily view compliance and virus detection activity for all systems, groups, or individuals. More detailed information is obtained with the click-through capability of the dashboard. Critical information is easily viewed on the screen or is printable for later reference.

Automatic protection enforcement
ProtectionPilot is always at work, automatically enforcing threat protection settings and policies on each system. In addition to regularly checking with the central server for any policy or setting changes, the ProtectionPilot agent also enforces compliance on each local system. When this interval comes around, the agent automatically checks the local system to ensure that the protection is correctly configured and installed. Automatic policy enforcement helps ensuring the protection is effective and removes possible weak links, such as end users who might change settings or disable critical protection software.

Do it now! Management Task menu
Ongoing administration is made simple, quick and effective with the “Do it now!” approach of the Management Task menu. Tasks, such as deploying protection, scanning for viruses, emergency updating, enforcing settings and policies, and checking the status of a system can all be performed immediately with the click of a button via the Management Task menu.

Centralized deployment and management
RSave time, effort and money with a centralized approach to managing virus protection. No more visiting each individual system or guessing whether protection is in place and working. ProtectionPilot offers a simple yet effective method of centrally managing threat protection. Deploy, update, view, control, and monitor - all from one central location. No more unnecessary visits to individual systems or branch offices.

Mobile user flexibility
ProtectionPilot ensures that mobile users are as well protected and easily managed as LAN-connected users. By enforcing policies even when the laptop is not connected to the network, and making updates happen whenever a connection to the Internet is sensed, ProtectionPilot effectively manages the “unmanageable.” And since the mobile user demands more flexibility, ProtectionPilot allows them to postpone and later resume updating at a more convenient time.

Fail-over updating
ProtectionPilot offers a fail-over approach to updating. Each system is instructed to look for update location alternatives if the first location is not available. This ultimately ends with the McAfee web site, so your systems always have an available place to retrieve updates.

Bandwidth-friendly
ProtectionPilot operates from a central server to manage up to 500 users. It also uses an intelligent update design that allows the updating load to be distributed throughout the network or branch offices. Utilizing distributed repositories, customers can keep network traffic low and performance high. This includes updating for all McAfee virus definition (DAT) files, the virus-scanning engine, service pack releases, and patch releases.

Guided installation and management
ProtectionPilot installation and management tasks are all intelligently wizard-driven, taking the mystery out of deployment and ongoing management of threat protection. Following installation, protection is deployed and settings and policies implemented - domains are automatically recognized at initial installation, which makes locating and deploying to systems across the network simple and straightforward.