Proactive risk mitigation — McAfee Entercept detects and blocks zero-day and known attacks before they can compromise critical assets, rather than simply detecting attacks after the fact.

Silent Installation and Updates — The Entercept Management System deploys and updates agents silently, requiring no user-intervention or reboot, nor prompting of end-users for response to security events, which can cause catastrophic security breaches.

Comprehensive protection — The Entercept Management System ensures protection through uniform policy enforcement across mixed server environments reducing security complexity; it controls, updates, and monitors applications and user groups across Windows, HP-UX, and Solaris platforms.

Superior accuracy — Organizations can quickly create custom rules with the policy wizard tool to match their unique applications and processes, eliminating the possibility of blocking business-critical traffic.

Scalability — Deploy and manage up to 10,000 agents with a single McAfee Entercept management server; optional deployment and monitoring with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5.

Lower total cost of ownership — Entercept lowers costs by mitigating patch criticality, reduces the number of resources needed to deploy and maintain the protection, and maximizes system integrity and availability.

Comprehensive policy enforcement — Security administrators create, enforce, and maintain customizable policies for applications and groups across Windows, HP-UX, and Solaris platforms.

Advanced management tools — Dashboard screen provides ‘at-a-glance’ summary of system status and current threats; Audit trail information records all configuration changes.

"Global" security monitoring and event display — Centralized storage of security events from agents around the world enables comprehensive view of system security posture from geographically distributed locations.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5 deployment and monitoring — Optional deployment and monitoring with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5.

Integrated host- and network-based IPS event monitoring — IntruShield 2.1 Manager imports and correlates Entercept Agent alerts with IntruShield Sensor alerts for a consolidated, system-wide view of network and system security status.

Reporting and data analysis — The management server provides searching, filtering, and grouping tools that minimize computer security and enable security administrators to focus on relevant information as well as identify security trends using customizable report templates.

Broad set of response and notification options — The management server can send various notifications, including email and pager alerts, SNMP traps, "spawn a process," and other warnings in response to security events.

User-defined safeguards — Users can easily create custom policies to match their environment with wizard-based interfaces for creation of custom protection rules and attack signatures.