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McAfee Network Security Manager

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Our award-winning intrusion prevention has never been easier to use, manage, and maintain

Unrivaled simplicity teams up with proven protection against a broad range of attacks and threats—from spyware to DoS—with the powerful McAfee® Network Security Manager. Centrally manage your McAfee IPS sensors and policies in real time through our enhanced wizard-based interface. A single, hardened plug-and-play appliance offers user-friendly, hassle-free web-based IPS management.

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Benefits and Features

Benefits:

One appliance handles it all
With a single rack-mountable, fully-hardened, plug-and-play appliance, you get comprehensive, scalable, accurate, and intuitive management of IPS policies and appliances

Comprehensive protection
This powerful yet easy-to-use web-based appliance delivers comprehensive, proven management of IPS configuration, policy, attack blocking, and response actions for small or large Network Security Manager deployments

Implement policies to suit your needs
IPS policy management is more effective and flexible when you have granular control; you can individualize security policies for different enterprise locations, business units, and remote offices

Protect your most critical assets
The configurable, color-coded intrusion Alert Viewer offers prioritized visual tracking of suspicious attack activity for accurate protection of your most critical network assets

Turn data into knowledge
Our centralized at-a-glance dashboard gives you a complete threat and system summary in seconds, while our real-time alert manager offers single-click navigation to alert and attack information; Network Security Manager also creates highly customized, intuitive, and flexible graphical reports

Simplifies management and increases productivity
We’ve made our graphical user interface even more user-friendly and intuitive for simplified, centralized management and maintenance; Network Security Manager’s clean and simple interface reduces the complexity, cost, and time spent managing appliances

It grows with your enterprise
The Network Security Manager’s virtual IPS and internal firewall capabilities are built to scale; it can manage up to 100 IPS appliances and support up to 1000 granular virtual sensors per Network Security Manager appliance

Features:

An all-in-one management platform
Our powerful preconfigured and hardened appliance provides plug-and-play functionality and an intuitive, easy-to-use interface for managing a single device or an entire enterprise-wide deployment

Improves threat visibility and response
Network Security Manager’s easy-to-use alert manager helps your IT staff stay on top of threats;  with its easy three-click navigation and drill down, your IT staff can quickly view threat data in real time to proactively determine the best course of action

Simple, granular security policy management
Network Security Manager provides granular, yet simple, policy management framework for implementing individualized security policies to suit the needs of your various enterprise entities

Easy-to-use preconfigured policies combat the worst threats
The Network Security Manager comes with a rich set of fourteen ready-to-use, predefined IPS security polices for easy customization and deployment; it accurately and proactively blocks hundreds of attacks right out of the box

Deployment is fast and pain-free
With Network Security Manager’s new setup wizard, deploying advanced McAfee IPS is a snap; it takes only three minutes to install new sensors

It blocks the most relevant attacks
Risk-aware intrusion prevention identifies and blocks most relevant attacks by importing and correlating information from McAfee® Vulnerability Manager as well as open source VA systems like Nessus, for targeted, prioritized risk management

IPS and internal firewall are a mighty duo
Our converged network IPS and internal firewall capabilities deliver a powerful defense against threats while providing unmatched policy enforcement and internal system and network threat protection

Description:

Boost productivity and reduce IT costs associated with managing your intrusion prevention system with the McAfee® Network Security Manager (formerly McAfee® IntruShield® Security Manager). A powerful rack-mountable plug-and-play appliance, Network Security Manager offers comprehensive, real-time, policy-based management of your McAfee IPS sensors. Flexible and scalable, this hardened appliance can manage up to 100 Network Security Manager IPS appliances. A nd its user-friendly, intuitive interface makes it easier than ever to manage and maintain your IPS sensors.

A single Network Security Manager appliance delivers simple, centralized web-based management of Network Security Manager appliances and policies. The Network Security Manager's state-of-the-art console with its user-friendly intuitive graphical interface gives IT administrators complete control a nd real-time data, so that they can easily manage, configure, administer, and monitor all Network Security Manager IPS appliances across widely distributed, mission-critical deployments.

You can use Network Security Manager to control one device or large, distributed enterprise-wide deployments. Network Security Manager delivers comprehensive, in-depth attack information and highly customized graphical reporting. It’s preset for default IPS threat blocking policies right out of the box to protect you against hundreds of attacks.

Select the version of the Network Security Manager that’s right for your organization:

McAfee Network Security Manager
The McAfee Network Security Manager appliance is an advanced solution for managing Network Security Manager sensor deployments for small and medium-size network s and enterprise branch offices. It is suitable for deployments of up to six Network Security Manager sensors.

McAfee Network Security Manager  - Global Edition
The McAfee Network Security Manager Global Edition appliance is an advanced solution for managing Network Security Manager sensor deployments for larg e and distributed enterprise and service provider networks. It is suitable for global IPS deployments of up to one hundred Network Security Manager appliances.

System Requirements:

The McAfee Network Security Manager Appliance is a self-contained device. There are no minimum software or hardware system requirements.

Client requirements

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