Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook Second Edition by Second Edition

Author:Second Edition
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Packt Publishing

Consider configuring All Management Points for HTTPS encrypted communication. Now, this is something I have not addressed particularly because you want to consider this thoroughly. This requires quite a lot of planning and thoughts regarding PKI certificates and so on.

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You can read more about the requirements in this Microsoft Technet link: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699362.aspx

But why do we need encrypted communication between our clients and server infrastructure? All communication floating over the Internet today should be secured with certificate encryption. You will see this more and more in the future, but today we see it for the most part on VPNs, email, bank accounts, and websites where we need to type our login and password. So basically, it means that all communication running over port 80 HTTP is wide open for hackers and thieves to steel whatever information they could use.

The Configuration Manager client that System Center Endpoint Protection uses are mentioned in previous chapters, for deployment, policy configuration, compliance, health check, update and status reporting. All this communication will flow unencrypted on port 80 HTTP if not configured for HTTPS. Now, this is alright when the client is on LAN which is usually secured well with Firewalls and often intrusion detection. When the client computer travels home or on the Internet there is no longer any communication with the System Center Configuration Manager infrastructure. So there is basically no risk there, and this is the most common configuration in my experience. But some choose the configuration with setting up HTTPS, also called Internet-Based Client Management (IBCM).

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