Basic Concepts

McAfee® Host Intrusion Prevention is a host-based intrusion protection system. It protects against known and unknown attacks, including worms, Trojan horses, buffer overflow, critical system file modification, and privilege escalation. Host Intrusion Prevention management is delivered through the ePolicy Orchestrator console and provides the ability to set and apply host intrusion prevention, firewall, application blocking, and general policies. Host Intrusion Prevention agents are deployed to servers and desktops and function as independent protective units. They report their activity to ePolicy Orchestrator and retrieve updates for new attack definitions.

This section describes the four features of Host Intrusion Prevention and how it works with ePolicy Orchestrator, and includes the following topics:

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