McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac
Advanced protection to secure Macintosh endpoints

Features:

Enforce security compliance
Report on and enforce security policies on Macs to ensure endpoints fully comply with your security standards.

Lower operational costs and simplify management
Use a single web-based console to manage both Mac and Windows endpoints. Endpoint Protection for Mac integrates seamlessly with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform, saving you time and money.

Get fast and reliable performance
Rely on advanced scanning functions for fast and accurate threat protection that doesn’t impact system performance.

Stop data-stealing malware
Prevent malicious attacks designed to steal data from being downloaded or installed on your Mac endpoints.

Count on 24/7 security vigilance in a Web 2.0 world
Trust McAfee Labs, our 24/7 Global Threat Intelligence team, to ensure your protections remain strong and up to date, even as applications and environments change.

Obtain proven anti-virus technology
Secure your endpoints against every type of virus and malicious code threat, even those hidden in compressed files, with advanced heuristics and generic detection from Endpoint Protection for Mac.

Secure reliable anti-spyware protection
Neutralize spyware before it takes root and spreads by stopping spyware and other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) before they install and start stealing personal information.

Utilize a proactive desktop firewall
Stop network-based attacks with inbound and outbound firewalls to prevent unwanted network activity. Ensure same network firewall policies can be enforced on both Mac and Windows endpoints.

Lock down Mac endpoints
Prevent malicious programs from modifying applications, and allow or deny applications that are not approved to run on your Mac.

Benefits:

Security Technology Way Beyond Antivirus

As Macs have entered the mainstream workforce, McAfee has responded with mature security technology that keeps pace with emerging threats.

This isn’t your father’s antivirus. With its advanced anti-malware protection that includes antispyware, a robust system firewall, and application protection (as well as antivirus), McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac offers complete coverage for the Mac users in your organization.

McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac is designed to block viruses, spam, spyware, and other malicious exploits:

• Antispyware stops spyware and other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) before they install and start stealing personal information.
• On-access scanning is always-on protection that also provides selective scanning functions to improve system performance.
• Desktop firewall stops network-based attacks from infecting the Mac, closes the door on cybercriminals while allowing legitimate traffic, and even stops probes from identifying vulnerabilities.
• Application protection provides the ability to deny applications that are not approved to run on your Mac and prevents malicious programs from modifying existing applications.

Centralized, Simultaneous Management of Macs and PCs

In addition to the advanced features and capabilities provided by Endpoint Protection for Mac, McAfee is unique in offering a single-console approach to managing endpoint security for both Macs and Windows-based PCs. McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (McAfee ePO™) software enables you to:

• Lower operational management costs by making it easier to manage all endpoints with fewer resources.
• Respond faster to security incidents, regardless of where they originate.
• Confirm compliance with security requirements, supported by powerful reporting capabilities.
• Bring new Macs onto the network quickly and seamlessly
• Update security settings on all endpoints—PCs and Macs—at the same time.

McAfee ePO software delivers these benefits to organizations with any number of users in today’s dispersed workforce—regardless of their location or preferred endpoint or software platform.

Advanced Stateful Firewall

McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac provides the most advanced firewall protection for Apple Macs in the market.

• Prevents unauthorized access to specific networks, subnets, hosts, IP addresses and domains.
• Tracks the outgoing network connection and ensures that the incoming connection is in response to the outgoing connection.
• Keeps your managed Mac in compliance with your organization firewall policies, by enforcing the same network firewall policies on Mac and Windows systems using a common McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software extension.
• Prevents access to unauthorized websites using DNS blocking policy.
• Protects your Mac inside and outside the office using location-awareness policy.

Application and Data Lockdown

The application-protection feature of McAfee Endpoint for Mac protects against data-stealing threats that attempt to modify existing legitimate applications or install new malicious software.

• Allows administrators to determine which applications are approved to run on your Macs—and prevent all others from installing or executing.
• Prevents malicious programs from accessing incoming or outgoing network connections.
• Locks down Mac endpoints to ensure compliance with company policies.

Cybercriminals are Equal-Opportunity Thieves

Cybercriminals don’t much care where they get their data from. Just like legitimate businesses, what they do care about is maximizing their investment. That’s a key reason why, when Macs made up a tiny fraction of market share and were used primarily by college students, designers, and musicians, criminals didn’t pay much attention to them. But that’s changed.

The conclusion for business is clear: As the market share for Macs grows and Macs play a continually more important role in the enterprise network, companies must make sure they’re protected. “Security through obscurity” will no longer be a sufficient defense.

System Requirements:

These are minimum system requirements only. Recommended requirements are in parenthesis, where applicable. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Operating Systems

• Mac OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8 or later)
• Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7 or later)
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6 or later)
• Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5 or later)

Documentation:

Download the McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac Datasheet (PDF).