Module 01: Course Welcome
- Introduce the course and course agenda
- Introduce the training organization
- Show common resources
- Describe the lab environment and how to use the Lab Guide
Module 02: Endpoint Security – Solution Overview
- Describe the solution and its key features.
- Identify new features and enhancements for this release.
- Identify the components in a basic deployment architecture.
- Explain how the solution works.
Module 03: Planning the Endpoint Security Deployment
- Identify considerations for defining business requirements or objectives.
- Identify supported operating systems and platform hardware for endpoints.
- Identify the components included with ENS.
- Describe the key parts of a deployment plan.
Module 04: ePolicy Orchestrator Overview
- Identify key differences between ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) On-Premises, ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) Cloud, and MVISION ePO.
- Identify the purpose of the McAfee Agent.
- Identify and distinguish between the menu bar options.
- Identify and explain the purpose of commonly used pages, such as the System Tree, Permissions Sets, and Users pages.
- Navigate through the interface and access commonly used pages.
Module 05: Installing Endpoint Security Packages and Extensions
- Explain how to obtain the required software components.
- Identify the steps to install Endpoint Security for use in ePolicy Orchestrator and standalone or self-managed environments.
- Identify and distinguish between the required software components.
- Add the required extensions and packages software to the ePO server.
- Verify the extensions and packages were added successfully to the ePO server.
Module 06: Deploy the Endpoint Security Client to the Endpoints
- Identify the different ways to deploy the required software components to endpoint systems.
- Deploy the required software components to the client endpoints.
- Verify the success of the deployment.
Module 07: Using the Endpoint Security Client
- Identify two ways to manage ENS clients.
- Open the ENS client interface.
- Log in as an administrator.
- Navigate through the client interface.
- Identify the default settings.
Module 08: Endpoint Security Policy Management Overview
- Explain the purpose of policies.
- Identify the various actions performed from the Policy Catalog page.
- Explain how policy inheritance works, as well as how to break inheritance.
- Explain policy ownership, as well as how to give other users permissions to control selected policy types.
Module 09: Configuring Common Settings
- Configure common settings that apply to all Endpoint Security modules and features, such as:
- Client interface
- Language
- Logging
- Proxy server for Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) reputation
- Update configuration
Module 10: Threat Prevention – Configuring Access Protection
- Describe the purpose of Access Protection policies.
- Identify types of system-defined rules.
- Describe situations where user-defined rules are useful.
- Describe similarities and differences between system-defined and user-defined rules.
- Describe how to enable and disable rules.
- Identify supported wildcards and syntax for exclusions.
- Customize a system-defined rule.
- Create a user-defined rule.
Module 11: Threat Prevention – Configuring Exploit Prevention
- Describe the key features of ENS Exploit Prevention.
- Configure Exploit Prevention policies to meet customer requirements.
- Describe how to configure the Network Intrusion feature of ENS.
- List the severities of the Exploit signatures.
- Define the types of expert rules.
- Define the application protection rules and how they work.
- Define how to create an exception for the signatures.
Module 12: Threat Prevention – Configuring On-Access Scan
- Identify the different types of scanners that ENS provides.
- Explain how the on-access scanner works.
- Configure on-access scan settings to meet customer requirements.
Module 13: Threat Prevention – Configuring On-Demand Scans
- Identify the different types of on-demand scans that ENS provides.
- Explain how the on-demand scanners work.
- Configure on-demand scanner settings to meet customer requirements.
Module 14: Threat Prevention – Configuring the Options Policy
- Identify the purpose of the Quarantine Manager, Exclusions by Detection Name, and Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) Detection.
- Describe some ways to manage quarantined items.
- Configure Quarantine Manager, Exclusions by Detection Name, and PUP Detection settings as necessary to meet customer requirements.
Module 15: Configuring Adaptive Threat Protection
- Identify the purpose of the Adaptive Threat Protection module.
- Deploy Adaptive Threat Protection.
- Identify the different policies available for Adaptive Threat Protection, as well as their default settings.
- Configure Adaptive Threat Protection policies to meet customer requirements.
- Configure Adaptive Threat Protection Server Settings.
Module 16: Firewall Overview and Configuring Firewall Options
- Identify the purpose of the Firewall module.
- Distinguish between the two types of Firewall policies.
- Configure settings in the Firewall Options policy to meet customer requirements.
Module 17: Configuring Firewall Rules and Groups
- Identify the purpose of Firewall rule and groups.
- Distinguish between settings for Firewall rules and groups.
- Identify considerations for rule design.
- Identify the purpose of location awareness, connection isolation, and timed groups.
- Describe best practices for Firewall configuration and rule design.
- Configure Firewall rules and groups to meet customer requirements.
Module 18: Configuring Web Control
- Identify the purpose of the Web Control module.
- Identify key features that Web Control provides.
- Identify the different policies available for Web Control, as well as their default settings.
- Configure Web Control policies to meet customer requirements.
Module 19: Monitoring and Reporting
- Access, navigate, and interpret dashboards.
- Describe situations where customized dashboards are useful.
- Generate and interpret queries and reports.
- View threat event detail.
Module 20: Endpoint Security for Servers
- Describe the Smart Scheduler of the ENS for Servers.
- Describe how to create resource-intensive tasks and a time slot for smart scheduling in the UI of the Smart Scheduler Catalog and Smart Scheduler.
- Describe the components and benefits of the ENS for Servers.
- Describe how the CPU load is calculated.
- Describe how Smart Scheduler decides the number of instances that can run the on-demand scan while maintaining the CPU Utilization value below the threshold value.
- List the benefits of ENS for Servers.
Module 21: Protection Workspace Overview
- List the elements of the Protection Workspace user interface.
- Use the Protection Workspace dashboard to monitor your environment.