Host Intrusion Prevention for Servers (HIS)

Your servers and the critical assets they contain are under constant siege. Worms, spyware, viruses, exploits, and other threats can compromise your data and cripple your servers, with potentially devastating consequences for your business.

McAfee® Host Intrusion Prevention monitors and blocks such unwanted activity. Host Intrusion Prevention maintains server uptime and protects corporate assets like applications, customer information, and databases. It uses multiple proven methods, including signature analysis, behavioral analysis, and a stateful firewall for Microsoft Windows that sets security parameters based on how the user connects to the network. 

With automatic signature updates and zero-day protection, you get advanced vulnerability-shielding capabilities. And patching systems is something you will do less often and less urgently. You’ll also find it easier to comply with legal regulations.

Standalone products have cumbersome, unintegrated management platforms, making it difficult to deploy the comprehensive protection you need against today's blended threats. Host Intrusion Prevention integrates into your existing McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® management platform, for accurate, scalable, and easy-to-use advanced server protection.

Key Features

• Web and database server protection Protect web and database servers from attacks like directory traversal and SQL injection attacks by using unique McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention protection technology
• Vulnerability shielding Automatic security content updates target specific vulnerabilities and recognize unknown exploits and stop them from executing; security content updates do not require system reboots
• Advanced application protection McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention puts an “envelope” around an application to prevent it from communicating with other applications; this prevents applications from being leveraged in any type of attack
• Prevents buffer-overflow exploits McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention uses a patented host intrusion technology to prevent buffer-overflow attacks, one of the most common methods of attacking servers and desktops
• Firewall protection Monitor both inbound and outbound network traffic on servers with the stateful Windows firewall; keep an eye on and protect applications that are installed on a server

Alternative Products

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention for Desktops (HID) monitors and blocks such unwanted activity and makes it easier to keep desktops safe with multiple proven methods; system firewall, signature analysis, and behavioral analysis. And you can manage it all from one centralised console.