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Table 9-1
Policy and group management
DescriptionTask
The Symantec security policies define the protection
technologies that protect your computers from known
and unknown threats. Become familiar with the policies.
Review the default protection for each policy protection
type.
See “About the security policies” on page 82.
Learn about Symantec security
policies
You organize computers with similar security needs into
groups. Review the groups. Create the groups that match
your organizational structure.
See “About computer groups” on page 81.
See “Creating a group” on page 81.
Review computer groups
Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
protects your computers out-of-the-box. You do not have
to adjust the policy settings unless you want to modify
the out-of-the-box protection.
See “About managing protection scans” on page 111.
See “About managing firewall protection” on page 127.
See “About managing Intrusion Prevention protection”
on page 137.
You can optionally allow computer users to modify the
protection on their computers.
See “Locking and unlocking policy settings” on page 86.
Symantec recommends that you test a security policy
before you use it in a production environment.
See “Testing a security policy” on page 87.
Adjust security policy settings
You assign a policy to a computer through a group. Every
group has exactly one policy of each protection type that
is assigned to it at all times.
See “How policies are assigned to groups” on page 86.
See “Moving a computer” on page 82.
Review policy assignments
You or the computer users manage unmanaged computers. Unmanaged computers
do not communicate with Symantec Protection Center to get security policies.
You can convert the computers that were installed as unmanaged computers to
managed computers.
Managing security policies and computer groups
About managing security policies and computer groups
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