The award-winning family of purpose-built McAfee® IntruShield® network intrusion detection and prevention sensors integrate patented detection techniques, centralized management, flexible deployment and the industry's highest Gigabit port density to enable Enterprises, Carriers and Service Providers to deploy the most accurate and comprehensive real-time attack prevention at multi-gigabit speeds. With a breadth of solutions that scale from 100's of Mb/s to multi-Gigabit bandwidth rates, its proactive protection extends from the network core to the edge and branch office and secures business availability and critical resources from the threat of known, zero-day, DoS and encrypted attacks.

• 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.

Comprehensive 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 (HIPS) and network (IntruShield) IPS security event aggregation and coordination on a single IntruShield Manager console

Accurate Protection

• 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.