Proactive risk mitigation — McAfee IntruShield provides proactive risk mitigation and assures the availability and security of critical system and network infrastructure by accurately detecting and blocking attacks on the network link before they reach their intended targets.

Comprehensive protection from today's dynamic threats — McAfee IntruShield delivers comprehensive protection against today’s constantly evolving threats, including known, zero-day, and encrypted attacks.

Virtual Perimeter Protection — Pioneering Virtual Perimeter technology provides an added layer of protection to guard against threats that penetrate traditional network perimeters or originate internal to enterprise networks.

Highly accurate detection and reduced false positives — McAfee IntruShield integrates a full suite of pioneering technologies in a single purpose-built platform to significantly improve detection and prevention accuracy while reducing false positives.

Enterprise-wide scalability — McAfee IntruShield delivers broad network protection extending from the network core, to the edge and branch office, while providing mission-critical solutions that scale from 100’s of Mbps to multi-gigabit bandwidth rates for large and small enterprise environments.

Low cost of ownership — McAfee IntruShield delivers a rapid Return on Investment (ROI) and the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in the industry by mitigating patch management costs, eliminating availability costs, and by minimizing the resources and investments needed to deploy and maintain network protection.

Encrypted Attack Prevention — Industry’s first and only network IPS to protect against both clear-text and encrypted attacks

Signature, anomaly and DoS Analysis — Protects against known, zero-day and DoS attacks

IPS and Internal Firewall — Unprecedented internal system and network infrastructure threat protection and policy enforcement through converged network IPS and internal firewall capabilities

Integrated Network and Host IPS Protection — Provides breakthrough integration by enabling host (Entercept) and network (IntruShield) IPS security event aggregation and coordination on a single IntruShield Manager console

Depth-of-Analysis — IntruShield’s purpose-built platform enables stateful traffic analysis by providing thorough parsing of more than 100 protocols, over 3,000 high-quality multi-token, multi-trigger signatures and advanced evasion resistance to deliver unmatched accuracy for mission-critical in-line prevention.

Virtual IPS and Internal Firewall — IntruShield’s unique virtualization capability extends to both IPS and internal firewall, enabling highly customized and granular security policies for a dramatic reduction in false-positives.

Intrusion Intelligence™ — Powerful capabilities provide detailed, accurate, and reliable information related to intrusion identification, relevancy, direction, impact, and analysis.

Enterprise-Wide Scalability — Through a full suite of solutions that scale from 100’s of Mbps to multi-gigabit bandwidth rates, IntruShield’s broad protection extends from the network core, to the edge and the branch office, and provides mission-critical solutions with proven scalability for all enterprise, carrier and service provider environments.

Flexible Deployment — Unprecedented flexibility of IPS or IDS deployment—including in-line, port clustering, high availability, span and tap modes—to suit any network security architecture.

Automated Real-Time Threat Updates — Innovative, automated processdelivers real-time, enterprise-wide signature updates without requiring sensor reboots, and provides protection against newly discovered vulnerabilities while eliminating manual updates and network downtime.