Chapter 4. Updates

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Understanding Endpoint Protection updates
  • Working with updates from WSUS
  • Working with updates from SCCM
  • What you need to consider and optimize when working with low bandwidth locations
  • Why and how to use offline updates

Introduction

It's obvious that having a good working solution for delivering definitions, engine updates as well as program updates is of the essence for security reasons. For example, it is important to have Definition updates to make Endpoint Protection able to detect new sorts of malwares and Engine updates, to improve Endpoint Protection with new methods and smart features.

But what do I mean by program updates? Well by this I mean that you have to keep up with ...

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