McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Essentials — A 5-day course
Course Synopsis
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The McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Essentials course enables attendees to receive in-depth training on the full benefits of the centralized management and deployment of McAfee products. Enabling administrators to fully understand the capabilities of their security solution not only reduces the risks of mis-configuration but also ensures an organization gets the maximum protection from their installation.
Key Advantages
Improved ROI
McAfee training Courses allow customers to get more from McAfee products faster. Fully understanding a product enables optimal configuration allowing maximum protection to an organization Quicker migration reduces time spent paying for legacy solutions Administrators can become more efficient, so that they spend less time managing the day-to-day tasks required to run their infrastructure.
Reduce risk
When deploying any new product there is the risk of disrupting business continuity. Providing training to administrators can significantly reduce the risk of misconfiguration. The impact could be: Reduced system security System downtime impacting productivity and revenue System performance issues, including reduced resilience and scalability Delays and additional costs in implementing.
McAfee Education provides instructor-led training proving classroom and practical hands-on exercises to ensure that administrators understand and successfully deploy/manage McAfee products from a single centralized management solution. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® provides a flexible platform for the centralized management and deployment of products. Its scalability and resilience is shown it its successful management of environments with tens of nodes to environments with more than a million. The cost and risk of system downtime is not easy to quantify but can be very significant depending on a company's dependence on its IT infrastructure to create revenue. Any mis-configured security product can result in reduced protection, increasing the vulnerability to attack and impacting system performance.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, attendees should understand the capabilities of McAfee's centralized management solution and have the ability to install McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and deploy and manage McAfee VirusScan on remote clients.
Prerequisites
It is recommended that the students have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows administration, system Administration concepts, a basic understanding of computer security concepts, and a general understanding of viruses and antivirus technologies.
Schedule
This course has been retired and is no longer available.
Course Contents
Security Risk Management with ePolicy Orchestrator
Installing ePolicy Orchestrator and Remote Agent Handler
The web console and dashboards
Permission sets and user accounts
Creating the system tree
Populating the system tree
Using Tags & Sorting the System Tree
The policy catalog and managing policies
Agent policies, system information, and client tasks
The McAfee agent
ePO repositories
Managing Product Maintenance with ePO Repositories
Automatic Responses
Reporting with Queries
Rogue System Detection
Server Maintenance & Utilities
Introduction to VirusScan 8.7i and Installation
Configuring VirusScan On-Access Policies
Configuring Access Protection Policies
E-Mail, Interface, & Alert Manager for VSE
Buffer Overflow, PUP, & Quarantine Policies
Configuring VSE Tasks
All topics are supported by hands-on exercises specifically designed to increase knowledge retention and provide experience needed to install, configure, and manage McAfee products centrally via ePolicy Orchestrator.