Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.x: Manage and Administer (SEPMA)

Introduction

• Course environment
• Lab environment

Managing Console Access and Delegating Responsibility

• Creating administrator accounts
• Managing administrators and delegating responsibility

Managing Client-to-SEPM Communication

• Analyzing client-to-SEPM communication
• Restoring communication between clients and SEPM
• Verifying clients are online with the SEPM

Managing the Client Architecture and Active Directory Integration

• Describing the interaction between sites, domains, and groups
• Managing groups, locations, and policy inheritance
• Assigning policies to multiple locations
• Importing Active Directory Organizational Units
• Controlling access to client user interface settings

Managing Clients and Responding to Threats

• Identifying and verifying the protection status for all computers
• Monitoring for health status and anomalies
• Responding to incidents

Monitoring the Environment and Responding to Threats

• Monitoring critical log data
• Identifying new incidents
• Responding to incidents
• Proactively respond to incidents

Creating Incident and Health Reports

• Reporting on your environment’s security status
• Reporting on the health of your environment

Introducing Content Updates using LiveUpdate

• Describing the LiveUpdate ecosystem
• Configuring LiveUpdate sources
• Troubleshooting LiveUpdate
• Examining the need for an internal LiveUpdate Administration server
• Describe the high-level steps to configure an internal LiveUpdate server

Analyzing the SEPM Content Delivery System

• Describing content updates
• Configuring LiveUpdate on the SEPM and clients
• Monitoring a LiveUpdate session
• Managing content on the SEPM
• Monitoring content distribution for clients

Managing Group Update Providers

• Identifying the advantages of using group update providers
• Adding group update providers
• Adding multiple and explicit group update providers
• Identifying and monitoring group update providers
• Examining group update provider health and status

Configuring Location Aware Content Updates

• Examining location awareness
• Configuring location aware content updates
• Monitoring location aware content updates

Managing Certified and Rapid Release Definitions

• Managing Certified SEPM definitions from Symantec Security Response
• Managing Certified Windows client definitions from Symantec Security Response
• Managing Rapid Release definitions from Symantec Security Response
• Managing Certified and Rapid Release definitions from Symantec Security Response for Mac and Linux clients
• Using static definitions in scripts to download content