Gartner pointed out that ‘Setting Policy’ is essential in the endpoint security life cycle in its latest Magic Quadrant Report for Endpoint Protection Platforms. By proactively configuring your endpoints, you can effectively reduce the potential attack surface. However, setting security policies across all endpoints sounds like a painful, time-consuming process. Well, not if you’re with Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 (SEP).
Application Control is an integrated feature in SEP 12.1. It offers one-click lockdown via a whitelist or blacklist of applications, allowing you to easily keep bad stuff out and good stuff in. And if you have multiple user groups located in various locations, Application Control in SEP also empowers you to customize security policies and set granular control based on your needs, maximizing the flexibility and scalability of your security policies.
Here are some ways that you can mitigate risks by taking advantage of the Application Control:
Use whitelisting or blacklisting to harden endpoints by only allowing certain applications to run
Restrict what applications are permitted to do and which system resources they can use
Block employees or others from using USB devices or only allow approved external devices
How exactly does it work? This demo will give you a great example of how Application Control can block threats even with all the other protection features disabled.
And there’s more you can achieve with Application Control in Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1. To find out more information,