Preface; Introducing Mcafee Network Security Platform; About The Guide; Audience - McAfee M-1250 - Network Security Platform Configuration 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

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McAfee Network Security Platform [formerly McAfee
comprehensive, accurate, and scalable Network Access Control (NAC) and network
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) for mission-critical enterprise, carrier, and service
provider networks, while providing unmatched protection against spyware and known,
zero-day, and encrypted attacks.
McAfee Network Security Platform combines real-time detection and prevention to provide
the most comprehensive and effective network IPS in the market.

About the guide

This guide provides conceptual and procedural information on how to use the McAfee
Network Security Manager [formerly McAfee
security policies in Network Security Platform. You need to apply policies to your McAfee
Network Security Sensors [formerly McAfee
generate alerts. For an overview of security policies in Network Security Platform, see the
Getting Started Guide.
Signatures Guide.
The following are some of the tasks discussed in this guide:
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Viewing the policies currently applied to the McAfee Network Security Sensors
(Sensors) and interfaces in an admin domain.
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Assigning policies to Sensors.
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Managing rule sets using the Rule Set Editor.
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Managing attack responses at a global level using GARE.
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Managing policies using the IPS Policy Editor.
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Using Global Auto ACK to automatically acknowledge alerts.
This guide explains how to perform the above-mentioned tasks using the Configuration
page of the McAfee Network Security Manager (Manager). For a detailed description of
the Configuration page and information on how to use this page, see
Basics Guide.

Audience

This guide is intended for use by network technicians and maintenance personnel
responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the Manager and Sensors, but is
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