Where to find Host Intrusion Prevention signature descriptions

Technical Articles ID: KB69571
Last Modified: 9/17/2020

Environment

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.x
McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention (Host IPS) 8.0

Summary

McAfee regularly publishes new monthly Security Content for Host IPS, typically after Microsoft's monthly Security Advisories notices (Patch Tuesday).

Solution

Host IPS Security Content Release Notes are available at: https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-in/release-notes/exploit-prevention.html.

Solution

The description of each signature is also available from the ePO console:

Log on to the ePO console.
Click Menu, Policy, Policy Catalog.
Select Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0.x: IPS from the Product drop-down list.
Select IPS Rules (All Platforms) from the Category drop-down list.
Click the McAfee Default policy. You see a list of signatures.
Click the signature, and click the Description tab. You can see the detailed information for that signature.

If you want to export the Host IPS signature information from the ePO database, see KB82313.

Affected Products

Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0

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