Preface

System Center Endpoint Protection, or Windows Defender, is a great security product when using System Center Configuration Manager or Microsoft Intune.

Its ability to protect computers in business increases every day, and it continually improves its features to meet today's security risks and attacks.

Because over 75% of all business around the world are now using the popular and great management tool System Center Configuration Manager, Endpoint Protection has also become widespread over that past few years.

In this book, we will explore the main motivation of using the well-known and established System Center Endpoint Protection and Windows Defender. You will gain knowledge about how to set up and configure the products for your organization based on real-life experience and best practices from a field expert and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. Throughout the book, you will see several best practice tips and recipes for you to use in your daily life as a security administrator.

This book is suitable for everyone who works with computers, but especially useful for IT administrators who work with System Center Configuration Manager, Endpoint Protection, and Intune.

The book will be useful for most kinds of businesses, from small to large, with making decisions, whether they are already using the product or just considering it. And there will be some recipes of value to you even if you are not using Endpoint Protection or Windows Defender.

Either way, reading this book will give you value that you can take with you in the future. Windows Defender comes built in with Windows 10 as well as Windows Server 2016 and you need to decide whether you choose to use it or disable it.

You will also gain deeper knowledge as a System Center Configuration Manager admin of how to handle and administrate the Endpoint Protection role to suite your antimalware admin needs, and also perhaps give you some good tips regarding Configuration Manager.