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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

Introduction


First, it's important to understand a little bit more about the difference between antimalware and antivirus.

A virus is a written piece of code made to copy itself to the computer with the intention of doing harm, such as destroying data or corrupting the Operating System. It has been the most common threat to computer systems for the last few decades. Antivirus security products and the security patching of Windows got very good at detecting and removing this kind of malicious code from files.

So it was only natural that more and more advanced and devious ways of doing damage and manipulating computers were developed. There came an increasing need for something that could detect all of these different kinds of attacks to a computer.

Over time, software known as antimalware was developed to deal with Trojans, Rootkits, Spyware, Exploits, Worms, Adware, and last but not least viruses.

System Center Endpoint Protection or Defender will scan for and detect all of these and remove...