CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (CA HIPS) blends endpoint Firewall, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, Operating System Security and Application Controls capabilities to provide centralized proactive threat protection to counter online threats. This combination offers superior security, access control, policy enforcement, easy intrusion prevention management and deployment from a central location via a single, intuitive console to enhance your endpoint protection.

With CA HIPS you can:

• Determine what traffic is appropriate
• Determine what applications can communicate
• Determine what behaviors and access rights on individual systems will be allowed or blocked
• Log all relevant events to help with compliance, reporting and investigations

Features and Benefits

• Centralized management saves IT administrators time and trouble while enhancing threat protection.
• Five Threat Protection Technologies in One. CA HIPS blends endpoint Firewall, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, Operating System Security and Application Controls capabilities to provide proactive threat protection.
• Behavior-based Real-time Protection from known and unknown threats. System administrators can use key functionality within CA HIPS to learn system behavior and create or edit existing policies.
• Fewer threat infections means reduced costs. CA HIPS reduces the risk of downtime by preventing malware, spyware, adware and rogue software from gaining access to the network.
• Works together with CA's portfolio of threat products to offer maximum endpoint threat protection. Provides the combination of products working together that is necessary to help protect network-enabled workstations and mobile devices from network-based attacks.

Languages Supported: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese

Server Requirements

The following requirements must be met or exceeded for the CA HIPS server to install and run correctly:

• Intel Xeon 3 GHz processor(s) or higher (x86/x64)
• 2 GB RAM
• 80 GB or larger hard disk
• 100/1000mbps network interface card

Supported Server Platforms:

• Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows 2000 Server with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows XP Professional with SP2 (32/64 bit)
• Windows 2003 Server with SP2 (32/64 bit)
• Windows 2008 Server (32/64 bit)

Client Requirements

The following requirements must be met or exceeded for the CA HIPS client to install and run correctly:

• 1.6 GHz processor
• 512MB of RAM
• 20 GB or larger hard disk

Supported Client Platforms:

• Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows 2000 Server with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4 Rollup 1
• Windows XP Professional with SP2 and SP3 (32/64 bit)
• Windows Vista with and without SP1 (32/64 bit)
• Windows 2003 Server with SP2 (32/64 bit)
• Windows 2008 Server (32/64 bit)