Book Image

Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nicolai Henriksen
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nicolai Henriksen

Overview of this book

System Center Configuration Manager is now used by over 70% of all the business in the world today and many have taken advantage engaging the System Center Endpoint Protection within that great product. Through this book, you will gain knowledge about System Center Endpoint Protection, and see how to work with it from System Center Configuration Manager from an objective perspective. We’ll show you several tips, tricks, and recipes to not only help you understand and resolve your daily challenges, but hopefully enhance the security level of your business. Different scenarios will be covered, such as planning and setting up Endpoint Protection, daily operations and maintenance tips, configuring Endpoint Protection for different servers and applications, as well as workstation computers. You’ll also see how to deal with malware and infected systems that are discovered. You’ll find out how perform OS deployment, Bitlocker, and Applocker, and discover what to do if there is an attack or outbreak. You’ll find out how to ensure good control and reporting, and great defense against threats and malware software. You’ll see the huge benefits when dealing with application deployments, and get to grips with OS deployments, software updates, and disk encryption such as Bitlocker. By the end, you will be fully aware of the benefits of the System Center 2016 Endpoint Protection anti-malware product, ready to ensure your business is watertight against any threat you could face.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Microsoft Security Center


How does Microsoft Security Center work and what can it give you?

Microsoft Security Center is a Service in your Windows that monitors the security health settings, including firewall, antivirus, antispyware, windows update, User Account Control (UAC) and Internet settings. Basically all the mentioned features are related to the security of the Operating System.

How to do it…

The local service is called Security Center in your Windows, and it's set, by default, to Start Automatically Delayed, meaning it starts a little bit after the Windows has finished starting up. There is about two minutes delay, which is totally fine for several services, and will result in a more rapid Windows startup time and allowing the users to start their work faster.

Note

More information about the Security Center can be found at:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/default.aspx

Now, I have seen some companies disabling this feature, because of its alert messages to the users have...