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• Policy Manager
• Introduction
• Main components
• Features
• Product registration
• Upstream reporting
• Basic terminology
• Policy-based management
• Installing the product
• System requirements
• Policy Manager Server
• Policy Manager Console
• Installing the product on Windows
• Installation steps
• Download and run the installation package
• Supported MSI parameters
• Run Policy Manager Console
• Changing the web browser path
• Upgrading the product on a Windows Server
• Uninstalling the product
• Installing the product on Linux
• Installation steps
• Install Policy Manager Server
• Install Policy Manager Console
• Upgrading the product on a Linux server
• Uninstalling the product
• Using Policy Manager Console
• Overview
• Basic information and tasks
• Logging in
• Connection properties
• Changing your password
• Dashboard
• Adding new users
• Policy domain tree
• Messages pane
• Product upgrade notifications
• Managing domains and hosts
• Adding policy domains
• Adding hosts
• Importing hosts from an Active Directory
• Importing the company certificate for Active Directory authentication on Linux
• Creating an Active Directory synchronization rule
• Creating an Active Directory notification rule
• Manually importing from Active Directory
• Handling unmanaged hosts
• Adding hosts in Windows domains
• Importing new hosts
• Using import rules
• Creating hosts manually
• Handling disconnected hosts automatically
• Managing policies
• Configuring settings
• Checking modified settings
• Adding notes to settings
• Discarding undistributed changes to settings
• Restrictions
• Using password-protected uninstallation
• Copying policy settings between Policy Manager instances
• Exporting the policy file for a host
• Policy inheritance
• How settings inheritance is displayed on the user interface
• Locking and unlocking all settings on a page at once
• Settings inheritance in tables
• Index inheritance in tables
• Managing operations and tasks
• Remote collection of diagnostics reports
• Alerts
• Viewing alerts and reports
• Filtering alerts sent by managed hosts
• Sending alerts by email
• Forwarding alerts to syslog server
• Configuring alert forwarding for a specific domain
• Reporting tool
• Viewing and exporting a report
• Using data mining to get information about managed hosts
• Running queries on managed endpoint data
• Publishing saved queries for reports and external use
• Example of using data mining
• How to check that the network environment is protected
• Checking that all the hosts have the latest policy
• Checking that the hosts have the latest virus definitions
• Checking that there are no disconnected hosts
• Viewing scanning reports
• Viewing alerts
• Creating a weekly infection report
• Monitoring a possible network attack
• Maintaining Policy Manager Server
• Malware definition updates
• Checking the malware definitions on Policy Manager Server
• Updating malware definitions in isolated networks
• Using Policy Manager Proxy to update malware definitions
• Using archives to update malware definitions
• Updating malware definitions on isolated Client Security hosts
• Backing up and restoring Policy Manager data
• Creating the backup
• Restoring the backup
• Restoring an automatically saved backup on Linux
• Exporting and importing signing keys
• Replicating software using image files
• Re-indexing search data
• Running the database maintenance tool
• Running the search maintenance tool
• Database maintenance troubleshooting
• Web Reporting
• Viewing reports
• Scheduling reports
• Changing the Web Reporting port
• Policy Manager Proxy
• Overview
• When should you use Policy Manager Proxy?
• Setting up Policy Manager Proxy
• Setting up Policy Manager Proxy in silent mode
• Upgrading Policy Manager Proxy in silent mode
• Centralized management of Policy Manager Proxy
• Software distribution
• Push installations
• Autodiscover Windows hosts
• Autodiscover hosts from an Active Directory server
• Push install to Windows hosts
• Push install after target host selection
• Policy-based installation
• Using policy-based installation
• Local installation and updates with pre-configured packages
• Using the customized remote installation package
• How to prepare MSI installation packages with Policy Manager for Linux
• Upgrading managed software
• Managing endpoint security
• Migration of Email and Server Security settings
• Using MDM profiles to set up WithSecure Client Security for Mac
• Configuring automatic updates
• Configuring automatic updates from Policy Manager Server
• Configuring Policy Manager Proxy
• Configuring hosts to download updates from each other
• Configuring virus and spyware protection
• Configuring real-time scanning
• Enabling real-time scanning for the whole domain
• Using AMSI integration to identify script-based attacks
• Excluding files from real-time scanning
• Excluding processes from real-time scanning
• Scanning content on network drives
• Using Security Cloud for malware scanning
• Configuring scheduled scanning
• Configuring DeepGuard
• DataGuard (a Premium feature)
• Setting up DataGuard
• Managing quarantined objects
• Deleting quarantined objects
• Releasing quarantined objects
• Configuring firewall settings
• Turning on the firewall
• Configuring network quarantine
• Turning network quarantine on in the whole domain
• Fine-tuning network quarantine
• Firewall settings for Windows clients
• Selecting the active firewall profile for a domain
• Creating a new firewall profile for a domain
• Adding firewall rules
• Creating a new network service for firewall rules
• Hiding certain firewall profiles from end users
• Configuring web traffic (HTTP) scanning
• Enabling web traffic scanning for the whole domain
• Blocking specific content types
• Blocking botnet communication
• Configuring application control
• Configuring application control
• Creating a new application control profile
• Adding exclusion rules
• Example: Preventing a vulnerable version from running
• Example: Preventing applications from automatically opening downloaded files
• How to protect your users' sensitive data
• Protecting secure connections on managed hosts
• Blocking unsuitable web content
• Web content categories
• Selecting the content categories to block
• Using Device Control
• Configuring Device control
• Limiting access permissions for removable drives
• Blocking hardware devices
• Granting access to specific devices
• Finding hardware ID for a device
• Managing software updates
• Installing software updates automatically
• Handling manually downloaded software updates
• Excluding software updates from automatic installation
• Checking the status of software updates in your network
• Installing missing software updates
• Allowing end users to manage software updates
• Configuring a third-party HTTP proxy for Software Updater
• Endpoint Detection and Response
• Activating endpoint sensors
• Reactivating endpoint sensors
• Activating endpoint sensors in VDI
• Checking the status of endpoint sensors
• Isolating hosts from the network
• Hiding notifications on managed hosts
• Hiding the local user interface on managed hosts
• Preventing users from changing settings
• Setting all virus protection settings as final
• Preventing changes to protected WithSecure files and processes
• Monitoring viruses on the network
• Testing your antivirus protection
• Virus information
• Malware information and tools on the WithSecure web pages
• How to send a virus sample to WithSecure
• How to package and send a virus sample
• Finding new malware
• What should be sent
• Windows Management Instrumentation
• WMI integration
• Obtaining properties via WMI
• WMI classes for integration
• WMI classes
• WMI classes in the Windows registry
• Troubleshooting
• Policy Manager Server and Policy Manager Console
• Policy Manager Web Reporting
• Policy distribution
• Frequently asked questions for Linux versions
• Using Policy Manager with a MySQL database
• Migrating H2 data to MySQL using the command line
• License terms
• WithSecure license terms
• Third-party license terms
• Oracle Binary Code License Agreement for the Java SE Platform Products and JavaFX
• Apache Software License - Version 2.0
• Eclipse Public License - v 1.0
• H2 License - Version 1.0
• Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) Version 1.0
• spring-asm Copyright Notice and Permissions
• SLF4J Copyright Notice and Permissions
• Liberica JDK End User License Agreement

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