Threat Detection: The InfoWorld review highlighted Entercept's complementary layers of intrusion prevention technology: "Combining signature- and behavior-based detection is the best way to guard against a wide range of new and old attacks. Entercept uses both approaches to secure desktops and servers, and throws buffer overflow protection and a process firewall into the bargain.

The best part is, it really works."

Management: The review reported "Entercept's Java-based management interface is nicely laid out, responsive, and easy to use."

Ease of Use: InfoWorld found that Entercept 5.0 is "easy to deploy and manage over the long haul," providing enterprises with "flexible policy administration for specific hosts and groups."

Scalability: Regarding Entercept's enterprise scalability, InfoWorld wrote, "for large deployments, you can configure a Microsoft installer package to push agents out to hosts en masse" and found "the default rulesets to be effective without tweaking."

Accuracy: Entercept 5.0 proved to be extremely accurate in protecting the InfoWorld test systems: "Using both signatures and behavioral rules to identify attacks, McAfee Entercept 5.0 thwarted all (of our) exploits and yielded no false positives during testing."

Setup: The review stated that "the (installation) process was straightforward, and no reboot was required" which highlights Entercept's ability to be deployed and updated silently, ensuring uninterrupted protection that is invisible to the end-user.