Title

The HBSS McAfee Agent must be installed. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The McAfee Agent is the client side distributed component of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) which provides a secure communication channel between the ePO server and managed point products.

Check Content

Run "Services.msc". Verify the McAfee Agent service is running, depending on the version installed. Version - Service Name McAfee Agent v5.x - McAfee Agent Service McAfee Agent v4.x - McAfee Framework Service If the service is not listed or does not have a Status of "Started", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Deploy the McAfee Agent as detailed in accordance with the DoD HBSS STIG.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-29560r3_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-15505

Group Title: HBSS McAfee Agent

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.