Preface; Introducing Mcafee Network Security Platform; About This Guide; Conventions Used In This Guide - McAfee M-1250 - Network Security Platform Manual

Preface

This preface provides a brief introduction to the product, discusses the information in this
document, and explains how this document is organized. It also provides information such
as, the supporting documents for this guide and how to contact McAfee Technical Support.

Introducing McAfee Network Security Platform

®
McAfee Network Security Platform [formerly McAfee
comprehensive, accurate, and scalable Network Access Control (NAC), network Intrusion
Prevention System (IPS) and Network Threat Behavior Analysis (NTBA) for mission-critical
enterprise, carrier, and service provider networks, while providing unmatched protection
against spyware and known, zero-day, and encrypted attacks.
McAfee Network Threat Behavior Analysis Appliance provides the capability of monitoring
network traffic by analyzing NetFlow information flowing through the network in real time,
thus complementing the NAC and IPS capabilities in a scenario in which McAfee Network
Security Sensor, NAC Sensor, and NTBA Appliance are installed and managed through a
single Manager.

About this Guide

describes the process of deploying
This guide
mode. The information in this guide details best practices for inline mode configuration,
information on attack blocking, and inline troubleshooting options.
This guide assumes that the reader has a working understanding of McAfee Network
Security Platform products, including McAfee Network Security Manager (nsm) and
McAfee Network Security Sensors (Sensors).

Conventions used in this guide

This document uses the following typographical conventions:
Terms that identify fields, buttons,
tabs, options, selections, and
commands on the User Interface
(UI) are shown in
font.
Menu or action group selections
are indicated using a right angle
bracket.
Convention
The
name of the requested service.
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bold
Select
v
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IntruShield ] delivers the most
Network Security Sensors (Sensors) in inline
Example
Service Properties
field on the
My Company > Admin Domain > Summary.
tab specifies the