McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.5

McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.5

Proactively protects network desktop clients against new threats that anti-virus software cannot defeat alone. Combining comprehensive network and application firewall capabilities with intrusion protection, Desktop Firewall prevents clients from sending or receiving traffic or application-borne threats. It also precludes trusted applications from being used to spread attacks across the network.
Key Benefits:
- Proactive prevention of threats that anti-virus alone can’t stop. Desktop Firewall filters all incoming and outgoing traffic, and controls applications, ports, and protocols to prevent attacks
- Protection from network-borne viruses. Authorized applications are managed and monitored to prevent their being used to send or receive threats across the network
- Shielding from unwanted applications. Spyware and other potentially dangerous programs can be prevented from running or hooking into other programs
- Exclusion of insecure clients. A quarantine mode keeps unprotected or inadequately shielded clients from communicating over the network
- Protection for mobile users. Desktop Firewall supports a wide range of protocols, including those used by mobile users accessing the corporate network via the Internet

Key Features:
- Connection aware policies.
Provide administrators with the ability to develop specific rule sets that only apply when a user connects to a network using a specific medium (LAN, wireless, VPN or dial-up). For example, an administrator can create a VPN-based connection group, and Desktop Firewall only applies the associated rules when a user tries to connect to a VPN.
- Packet-level firewall.
Desktop Firewall prevents network attacks using traffic-control rules for over 120 IP protocols. Security is further enhanced with support for non-IP protocols including WiFi, NetBEUI, IPX, and AppleTalk.
- Application-layer firewall.
Rules are created to restrict network traffic generated by applications; administrators can further strengthen security by controlling the ports and protocols used by authorized applications.
- Application monitoring.
Application-creation rules prohibit unauthorized applications, stop threats such as Trojans, worms, remote access Trojans, and spyware, and prohibit users from installing or running unapproved software.
- Intrusion prevention system.
Attack signatures enable Desktop Firewall to detect traffic behavior or application activity that indicates an attack on the client. These identified intrusions-such as IP spoofing, ping flood, and SYN flood-are blocked, and the client machine is prevented from being used to attack other network resources.
- Quarantine mode.
This feature enhances security by automatically checking client security policies before permitting full network connection. If the client is unprotected or running out-of-date software or security policies, access is denied.
- Mobile-user protection.
With support for 120 IP-based protocols, Desktop Firewall can be configured to provide security for mobile users connecting to the enterprise network via the Internet.

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