Symantec Critical System Manuel D’Utilisation

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Introducing Symantec™ Critical System Protection
How Symantec Critical System Protection works
How Symantec Critical System Protection works
Symantec Critical System Protection controls and monitors what programs and 
users can do to computers. Agent software at the endpoints controls and 
monitors behavior based on policy. There are two types of policies: prevention 
and detection. An agent enforces one prevention policy at a time. An agent can 
enforce one or more detection policies simultaneously.
For example, prevention policies can contain a list of files and registry keys that 
no program or user can access. Prevention policies can contain a list of UDP and 
TCP ports that permit and deny traffic. Prevention policies can deny access to 
startup folders. Prevention policies also define the actions to take when 
unacceptable behavior occurs. 
Detection policies can contain a list of files and registry keys that when deleted, 
generate an event in the management console. Detection policies can also be 
configured to generate events when known, vulnerable CGI scripts are run on 
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), when USB devices are inserted and 
removed from computers, and when network shares are created and deleted.
Communication between the management server and the management console 
is secured with Secure Sockets Layer X.509 certificate-based channel 
encryption.
About the policy library
Symantec Critical System Protection provides a policy library that contains pre-
configured prevention and detection policies, which you can use and customize 
to protect your network. A prevention policy is a collection of rules that governs 
how processes and users access resources. A detection policy is a collection of 
rules that are configured to detect specific events and take actions.