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Tamper Protection in Forefront Client Security
Every Anti-Virus has a mechanism called tamper protection that helps administrator keep users from mishandling there antivirus settings and services. Forefront Client Security only offers basic control over what the user can or cannot do with the FCS Client Console on his client machine. What the FCS System doesn’t provide is a built-in mechanism to protect FCS services from being stopped or prevent FCS from being removed by the user. It’s true that some of these are possible to prevent by not giving...
Forefront Client Security Deployment Tool
After a lot of work, I am very pleased to finally announce the release of "Forefront Client Security Deployment Tool". FCS Deployment Tool is a free toolkit provides additional deployment capabilities in addition to those which are available with the RTM Version of FCS . This tool gives network and security administrators the ability to scan their network and/or AD, discover existing installed Anti-Virus solutions (currently supporting Mcafee, Symantec and Trend-Micro) that are already...
Forefront Client Security Remote Definitions Update Using MOM Tasks
Overview This Guide explains how to create a process of remote updating forefront client security definitions using MOM2005 Tasks. This ability to MOM2005 gives you the ability to "Right Click à Update Definitions" on each and every installed client and by that gives you the ability to update and control your client definitions outside "windows update". Note: This update method is not a replacement for the Windows update method. You can take the scripts and the first part of this...
Forefront @ Tech-Ed 2008
Just a little bit more then 48 hours until the first unveiling of Forefront Stirling, the second generation of Forefront Security line of solutions at RSA. But we are not in RSA, we are going to Tech-ED! for the first time ever, we will present stirling a few hours before the rest of the world so you guys will be the first people in world (outside of MS) that will get the first glance about the most amazing security solution youv'e seen a great while.... in addition to that, those of you who...
10 free security tools you should already be using
Ryan Naraine recently put together a photo gallery that describes 10 free security tools you might want to look into, and I just PDFed it for those who want to download the info in one consolidated document . The gallery includes one product that has since become defunct (Active Virus Shield), so I substituted another tool that received a secondary mention in his gallery (LinkScanner Lite). Here’s a list of all the products discussed in the download: #1: Secunia Personal Software Inspector #2: OpenDNS...