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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

Monitoring infectious outbreaks


If you don't want to go as far as implementing AppLocker as described in the preceding recipe, there is another method that you can consider.

We will look into how to protect your computers with more tools than System Center Endpoint Protection will give you. We will be looking at scenarios for the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET).

Another possibility that we can investigate is simply blocking certain file extensions that all known cryptolocker and ransomware programs use, such as .locky, and .zepto. Later in this chapter I will show you how you can achieve this.

How to do it…

First, Exploits need some explaining.

These are vulnerability holes in software installed on computers. Malware can slip through the antimalware solution and then has the ability to take advantage of and use these vulnerabilities to exploit how the software works; it can then figure out a way to infect computers concealed from the antimalware software.

This is an increasingly...