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McAfee Network Security Platform

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Faster time to protection. Faster time to resolution. Faster time to confidence.

When it comes to securing your network, point products aren’t the most efficient or the most accurate option. For intelligent, comprehensive enterprise-level protection for every network-connected devices, rely on McAfee Network Security Platform. Our award-winning network intrusion prevention system efficiently integrates risk and threat knowledge. The result? Real-time, actionable security.

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Benefits and Features

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive enterprise-wide threat prevention
    Block attacks before they occur with a single industry-proven security device—McAfee Network Security Platform, your single solution for proactive prevention that protects every device on your network; no other network security offering safeguards your business more broadly, accurately, and efficiently
  • Do more with less
    Bridge network and system with McAfee’s security risk management (SRM) framework for collaborative security infrastructure that’s integrated for maximum coverage and value; leverage the benefits of your existing security ecosystem; integrated network and system security infrastructure delivers efficient collaboration that’s more than the sum of its parts
  • Maintain your competitive advantage
    Don’t let network threats and exploits interrupt your business operations and affect your competitive advantage; our high-performance network-class security appliance protects your evolving security and network needs while delivering enterprise-level performance, reliability, and availability
  • Smart network and system security integration delivers real-time security
    Empower your enterprise with real-time security decisions for faster time to protection and faster time to confidence; McAfee Network Security Platform collaborates with McAfee Vulnerability Manager, ePolicy Orchestrator, and NAC for enhance protection, visibility, efficiency, and value

Features:

  • 10-Gigabit Ethernet performance
    Address your evolving security and network needs with affordable network-class performance and reliability; McAfee Network Security Platform portfolio of high-performance, purpose-built platforms protect all locations-from the network core to branch offices
  • Award-winning, network-class protection for absolute security confidence
    Rely on Network Security Platform for your enterprise network; Network Security Platform exceeds Telcordia standards; it's the only IPS appliance to hold the NSS Group's Multi-Gigabit IPS certification; protect all network-connected devices with a combination of IPS and internal firewall for overlapping, integrated protection; defend against current and future threats with dynamic threat and vulnerability updates
  • Real-time risk-aware IPS
    Empower yourself to make more informed security decisions through integration with McAfee Vulnerability Manager, which provides real-time threat relevancy on demand; highly accurate risk relevancy and visibility provides actionable security intelligence
  • System-aware IPS with McAfee ePO™ integration
    Leverage your security investment with McAfee SRM; this integration of your network and system security infrastructure results in the only system-aware IPS for efficient security collaboration that gives you a clear picture of all system and network threats; through integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™), you get real-time visibility to actionable system host details, as well as the top host IPS, virus, and spyware events
  • Dynamic network access control
    Extend the reach and depth of network enforcement with dynamic, zero-day access control; combined with the Network Security Platform on-board host quarantine capability, McAfee Network Access Control (MNAC) provides continuous pre- and post-admission control for managed, unmanaged, and unmanageable hosts

Description:

How intelligent is your network security?

Is your enterprise is outgrowing your network security appliances? Consider a smarter, more efficient approach to security risk management. McAfee® Network Security Platform  risk-aware network intrusion prevention gives you more visibility and more relevant information, so that you can make the right decisions and act quickly.

With the Network Security Platform (formerly McAfee® IntruShield®) action-oriented security, you automatically manage risk and meet compliance requirements—while reducing IT resource dependency. With Network Security Platform you get:

  • A network-class platform for any enterprise that needs absolute security confidence
  • Collaborative security for integrated, intelligent protection to defend against attacks and secure your infrastructure
  • Award-winning broad, accurate, and efficient protection for every network-connected device

Network Security Platform is a single, integrated solution that gives you insight into what's putting your network and systems at risk and what you need to do about it—in real time. The time it takes to acknowledge an attack to its final resolution shrinks dramatically. And the process is accurate and complete.

Network Security Platform makes network security smarter because it collaborates with your security infrastructure and integrates with other McAfee products:

  • McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator®(ePO™)
  • McAfee Network Access Control (MNAC)
  • McAfee Vulnerability Manager 

Get more visibility into your network on demand all in one place—including threat and risk relevance. Add it all up, and you have prioritized, pertinent information that enables Network Security Platform to act on the most pressing issues.

The Network Security Platform portfolio of high-performance, scalable appliances offers the highest up-time and port density available. It’s easy to manage, configure, administer, and monitor all Network Security Platform IPS appliances across widely distributed deployments with McAfee Network Security Manager (formerly McAfee IntruShield® Security Manager (ISM) ). Network Security Platform is the perfect fit for Class A, mission-critical global enterprise networks.

System Requirements:

There are no minimum software or hardware system requirements.