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Hello ESET Endpoint Antivirus! Deployment, management and migrating from SCEP.

Following Microsoft’s announcement that System Centre Endpoint Protection (SCEP) for macOS and Linux is to be discontinued by the end of this year, their recommended migration path is to switch to ESET Cyber Security. In fact, ESET are granting anyone wishing to switch a year’s subscription for free, which is nice. It’s been difficult to … Continue reading “Hello ESET Endpoint Antivirus! Deployment, management and migrating from SCEP.”

Farewell SCEP!

No, not the certificate thing. Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection for macOS and Linux, as announced at Microsoft’s Blog. There were rumours of its impending demise on Twitter back in March but nothing concrete from Microsoft until now. So, no more support after the end of 2018 and definition updates may stop any time after … Continue reading “Farewell SCEP!”

Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) – More hidden reporting goodness

I thought I was done with SCEP (see parts 1, 2 and 3) but whilst undertaking an exercise looking into using SCEP on some Linux servers (and specifically looking at how it can provide reporting data to SCOM via a Management Pack), I inadvertently came across a little-documented command line argument for one of its binaries, … Continue reading “Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) – More hidden reporting goodness”

Managing Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) – Part 3

The Mac Admins community is interesting (amongst other things!). What’s really interesting is when someone contributes something, others often come forward and build on their work, ever-advancing it towards a state of pure awesome. @glaurung got in touch with me on the Slack after I published part 1 and part 2 of my thoughts on … Continue reading “Managing Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) – Part 3”

Managing Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) – Part 2

In Part 1, we looked at how it was possible to configure pretty much anything in SCEP with the venerable scep_set command. Here, we’re going to focus on something else. It’s often in an organisation’s information security policy to ascertain whether the devices you manage are “compliant” with a set benchmark, whatever it may be. … Continue reading “Managing Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) – Part 2”

Managing Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) – Part 1

If you’re using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to deal with Windows machines in your environment, you may notice that it comes licensed with an antivirus/malware product; Endpoint Protection (SCEP), with versions for Windows, Linux and macOS. This fits the bill nicely for organisations where their IT security policies dictate that such software is … Continue reading “Managing Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) – Part 1”