System Protection From Malwares

Course Duration – 18 hours

Our System Security training program will provide in-depth learning of protecting endpoint systems (desktop, laptop & server) with McAfee Endpoint security software from malware attacks.

This course provides an in-depth understanding of the tasks crucial to set up and administer McAfee Endpoint Security with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) software. McAfee Endpoint Security comprises multiple modules such as Threat Prevention, Host Firewall, Web Control, and Adaptive Threat Protection—to help you take immediate action against potentially dangerous applications, downloads, websites, and files. 

Participants must have prior knowledge of following areas —

• Windows administration & network communication,  Windows Active Directory & DNS fundamentals.
• Basic understanding of computer security, command line syntax, type of  malwares and its impact. 

Content Coverage

This course combines lectures and practical lab exercises, with significant time allocated for hands-on interaction on following topics.

1. Solution Overview – McAfee Endpoint Security & ePO software purpose & capabilities along its key features and benefits.
2. Installation Prerequisites – Understand hardware, operating system & database requirement for the deployment of McAfee Endpoint Software components. 
3. Planning & Design Deployment Architecture – Plan centralized McAfee Endpoint Security deployment across wide spread network nodes including deployment architecture.
4. McAfee ePO Installation & Configuration – We will perform hands-on to learn installation of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator centralized management software. After the installation we will  walk through different configuration options in the ePO interface.
5. Centralized deployment of McAfee Endpoint Security – We will perform & learn centralized installation of McAfee Endpoint Security software via ePO
6. Strengthening System Security with Policy Configuration – We must strengthen security of the endpoint system with appropriate recommended configuration. You will learn to perform configuration of McAfee Endpoint Security components such as Threat Prevention, Host Firewall, Web Control, and Adaptive Threat Protection. You will learn & perform hands-on of following  configurations –

• Configuring Common Settings – Logging, Proxy server for McAfee Global Threat Intelligence reputation, and Update configuration.
• Threat Prevention: Configuring Access Protection, Exploit Prevention, On-Access with On-Demand Scanners, setup exclusions and Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) Detection features.
• Host Firewall Overview and Configuring Firewall Options 
• Configuring Web Control to implement web site access restrictions.
• Monitoring and Reporting – Learn using dashboards, queries, reports, and threat event detail.