Product guide

How desktop firewall rules are organized
Rules are categorized as ePO Rules, Client Rules, and Adaptive Rules.
Rules are displayed in tree view. The ePO Rules group appears at the top with the list of rules, followed
by the Client Rules, then the Adaptive Rules.
To view desktop firewall rules, click
| McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac Preferences | Desktop Firewall.
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ePO Rules — Defined and enforced by administrators if your Mac is managed by ePolicy Orchestrator.
The ePO Rules group contains list of rules that desktop firewall creates automatically at run time.
These rules can't be modified.
• ePO Rules are displayed and applied only when the Mac is managed by ePolicy Orchestrator.
• A local user can't modify ePO Rules.
• A user can't add rules above or in between ePO Rules.
• When rules are created from a client Mac, they are added after the existing rules in the
respective group.
• These are the first rules processed to match the network packet.
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Configuring protection preferences on a standalone Mac
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