ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6 New Features Overview

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ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6New Features Overview

• August, 2005
• Rita Tetzlaff

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ePolicy Orchestrator is a Solutions Platform
Enforcement (Network Access)
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
Foundation Components
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ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6 Goals

• Complete centralized management of all McAfee
  System Security Products from one platform
• General Product Improvements
• Usability
• Scalability
• Flexibility
• Bandwidth control

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ePO 3.6 - Key Features and Benefits

• Platform Enhancements
• Usability Workflow Enhancements
• Administrative Enhancements

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Platform Enhancements
Benefit
Support for Host Intrusion Prevention

• Integrated management for all McAfee system
  security solutions, including anti-virus,
  anti-spam, anti-spyware, firewall, content
  filtering, and HIPS
• Centrally deploy, configure, update, and manage
  McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention solution.

Full management integration McAfee HIPS
Entercept 6.0
High-Availability Support
Support for Microsoft Clustering Services through
clustering setup wizard
Apache HTTP Server
Replaces existing HTTP server with Apache
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Platform Enhancements
Support for Host Intrusion Prevention
Benefit
Full management integration for HIPS technology

• Improved business continuity through higher
  availability and easier manageability
• Greater, cost-effective scalability
• Meets business requirements for continuity
  without increased pressure on IT staff

High-Availability Support
Support for Microsoft Clustering Services through
clustering setup wizard
Apache HTTP Server
Replaces existing HTTP server with Apache
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Platform Enhancements
Support for Host Intrusion Prevention
Benefit
Full management integration for HIPS technology

• Improved performance
• Improved scalability
• Improved responsiveness

High-Availability Support
Support for Microsoft Clustering Services through
clustering setup wizard
Apache HTTP Server
Integrated with Apache -- industry-leading HTTP
server.
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Usability Workflow Enhancements
Benefit
Improved Policy Management

• Create policies once and easily assign policy to
  systems in different parts of directory tree
• Simplifies policy creation, assignment and
  updating
• Organize the directory tree by geography and
  easily manage policies by system function.

Named Policies Reuse policies, name policies,
and identify broken inheritance.
Improved Repository Management
Selective repository scheduling, content
replication and server replication.
Progress Tracking
Active server task log displays status of tasks
in progress with status bars
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Usability Workflow Enhancements
Improved Policy Management
Benefit
Named Policies Reuse policies, name policies,
and identify broken inheritance.

• Saves valuable bandwidth resources during the
  execution of a replication task and by ensuring
  that only necessary content is replicated.
• Schedule replication to take place in off-hours
  around the world.
• Faster on-demand replication

Improved Repository Management
Selective repository scheduling, content
replication and server replication.
Progress Tracking
Active server task log displays status of tasks
in progress with status bars
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Usability Workflow Enhancements
Improved Policy Management
Benefit
Named Policies Reuse policies, name policies,
and identify broken inheritance.

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• Server task logs easily accessible via ePO
  console
• Improved scalability and responsiveness
• Improved management capabilities by easily
  tracking replication progress across all
  repositories
• Quickly identify replication failures, improving
  troubleshooting capabilities

Improved Repository Management
Selective repository scheduling, content
replication and server replication.
Progress Tracking
Active server task log displays status of tasks
in progress with status bars
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Administrative Enhancements
AVERT Integration
Benefit
Embedded AVERT Threat Knowledge into ePO 3.6
console

• Easy access from one central console to AVERT
  knowledge
• Quickly assess whether most current update
  signatures/data files are downloaded to ePO
• Drill-down capabilities into alerts and warnings
  for new high-risk viruses and threats

Admin Roles Permissions
Product-based roles, multi-site permissions, and
support for NT/AD authentication.
Console Auditing
Automated auditing capabilities
Purge Events Task
New functionality allowing selective purging of
events
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Administrative Enhancements
Benefit
AVERT Integration
Embedded AVERT Threat Knowledge into ePO 3.6
console

• Granular control capabilities based on product
  responsibility
• Site administrators gain access to multiple sites
  in the directory tree, rather than just one site
• Central view and reporting for all sites admin
  has permission for
• Comply with regulatory guidelines for password
  controls

Admin Roles Permissions
Product-based roles, multi-site permissions, and
support for NT/AD authentication.
Console Auditing
Automated auditing capabilities
Purge Events Task
New functionality allowing selective purging of
events
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Administrative Enhancements
AVERT Integration
Embedded AVERT Threat Knowledge into ePO 3.6
console
Benefit

• Easily obtain console auditing trail for SOX
  regulatory compliance
• Automated, integrated and easy to use
  capabilities

Admin Roles Permissions
Product-based roles, multi-site permissions, and
support for NT/AD authentication.
Console Auditing
Automated console auditing capabilities
Purge Events Task
New functionality allowing selective purging of
events
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Administrative Enhancements
AVERT Integration
Embedded AVERT Threat Knowledge into ePO 3.6
console
Benefit
Admin Roles Permissions
Product-based roles, multi-site permissions, and
support for NT/AD authentication.

• Fine grained control over event retention and
  purging
• Automatic scheduling and selective purge
  capabilities

Console Auditing
Automated auditing capabilities
Purge Events Task
New functionality allowing selective purging of
events