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McAfee Shores Up Your Defenses: Page 2 of 4

Enforcing Security

For security, McAfee offers ePo Fusion Services, which customizes third-party toolkits so ePo can manage almost any desktop-security product. I chose, however, to manage and deploy McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.0--one of the products ePo can manage out of the box.

Before deploying antivirus protection to managed machines, you must install the software into the master software repository. Once the managed software is imported into ePo, you can customize the default security policy's level of enforcement. I created a policy that forces managed clients to run VirusScan, update the virus definitions at start-up once per day and perform weekly virus scans of local hard drives during off-hours.

Good
• Single console scalable to 250,000 clients
• Automatically manages and thwarts virus outbreaks

• Excellent built-in graphical reporting

Bad
• Complex environment, but easily managed once configured
• Manages only those security products you have purchased and licensed
• Works best within a Microsoft NT Domain, requiring additional configuration when outside of a domain

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.0, starts at $24 per managed node. Network Associates, (972) 963-8000. www.mcafeesecurity.com

Next I deployed VirusScan to machines. First I had to install an ePo agent on each managed computer--this can be done from the server using appropriate credentials within the domain or manually using the silent install executable.

I created a group containing the server and a desktop computer, and created a task to deploy and manage VirusScan on this group. It was installed within minutes.