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McAfee Application Control
Reduce risk from unauthorized applications and gain stronger endpoint control
McAfee Application Control ensures only trusted applications run on servers and endpoints. It reduces risks from unauthorized software, boosts endpoint control, extends the viability of fixed-function systems without impacting performance, and lowers operating costs.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Reduce risks from unauthorized applications
Block unwanted applications and their risks. Users can unintentionally introduce software that installs malware, creates support issues, and violates software licenses—compromising systems and your overall business. McAfee Application Control allows only trusted applications to run on your endpoints and servers. - Get comprehensive code protection
Stop unauthorized applications and malware—whether binaries, kernel components, DLLs, ActiveX controls, scripts, or Java components—from executing. For greater security, Application Control protects approved applications from being corrupted by allowing only authorized applications to make changes.
Easily safeguard critical systems, field units, and fixed-function devices
Take advantage of our transparent model—it is compact enough for small fixed-function devices, consuming less than 10MB of RAM and minimal CPU. - Extend the lifespan of legacy systems
Lock down system configurations with the help of Application Control. This is particularly useful as your older systems lose vendor support, and it helps alleviate the need to patch these systems.
Features:
- Dynamic whitelisting via a trusted source
Eliminate the need for IT administrators to manually maintain lists of approved applications. IT departments can adopt a flexible approach, where a repository of trusted applications can run on endpoints. This prevents execution of all unauthorized software scripts and dynamic link libraries (DLLs), and further defends against memory exploits. - Low overhead footprint
Reduce costs and resource needs. Application Control runs transparently on endpoints, and can be set up quickly, with very low initial and ongoing operational overhead. - Centralized security management
Optimize and simplify management with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). With ePO, you can oversee and administer all your security protections from a single, centralized console. Application Control integrates easily and completely with ePO to deliver significant operational efficiencies that save you time and money.
Description:
McAfee Application Control gives enterprises an effective way to block unauthorized applications on servers and endpoints. Unlike simple whitelisting, Application Control uses a dynamic trust model, which eliminates the need for tedious manual updates to approved lists. As enterprises face an avalanche of unknown software from the web, this centrally managed solution adds a timely control to your systems security strategy, attuned to the operational needs of enterprises.
Complete protection from unwanted applications—Application Control extends coverage to Java, ActiveX controls, scripts, batch files, and specialty code for greater control over application components.
Viable security for fixed-function and legacy systems—Application Control uniquely extends a layer of protection to fixed-function devices, such as kiosks and point-of-sale (POS) terminals, and to legacy Microsoft Windows NT and 2000 systems.
Flexible, affordable, and secure—Application Control dynamically manages whitelists, making it easy to support multiple configurations for different business needs: POS terminals, back-office servers, and multiple desktop images for different user profiles.
Scalable, centralized management—Application Control leverages your investment in the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform. McAfee ePO provides remote deployment, which means you can easily manage and report on large enterprise rollouts from a central location.
System Requirements:
Operating Systems (OS)
These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
- Microsoft Windows NT*
- Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008
- Microsoft Windows XP/Vista
- Microsoft Windows XPE
- Microsoft Windows XP/Vista (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 (64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows CE 6.0*
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4/5
- CentOS 4/5
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 9/10
- Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
- Solaris 8/9/10
*These platforms are not supported by McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) or work in standalone mode.
