BCX Security Information
The BCX Manager is able to alert you to events triggered on stations protected by SCEP, Defender or Sophos antivirus software.
The Security Information Tab gives you global visibility of your antivirus estate on both stations and servers, and from here, you can view events, acknowledge detections, initiate scans and update definitions.
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Acknowledge Detected Threats
This section of the guide will take you through Threat Management.
If a threat has been reported by a station, on opening BCX Manager it will take you straight to the detected event in Security Information. If BCX Manager is already open, it will display a warning in the status bar, which if clicked also displays the detected event.
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Clicking on the event displays an overview of the threat.
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The Events tab allows you to investigate both the threat, and the action taken by the stations virus protection.
Image showing events tab
Click on each to review the information provided. First the threat.
Image showing event details
Then the action taken.
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Once happy that the threat has been resolved, you would select both the threat and action taken events, and acknowledge them.
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The AV Information should then revert to healthy status.
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Filtering Information
This section of the guide will take you through displaying the available data using various views/filters.
We will start by looking at the "Quick View Tools" Both options available here allow you to view detections in greater detail, and acknowledge threats.
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Selecting "View All Unacknowledged Detected Threats" will display a listing of outstanding threats to follow up on.
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The "View All Detected Threat History" will display all detected threats acknowledged or not
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We will now look at the available "Filters".
The "Choose Filter" drop down provides access to a set of pre-defined set of filters you can apply to the collected data.
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You can also select "Advanced Filters" to display the "Filter Editor" for defining your own filters.
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From within a stations Events tab, You can select from the Filter Events dropdown to specify the displayed data.
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AV Tasks
From Security Information, choose a station and either right click to display available options, or choose one from the menus shown in the interface. Basically, the task you choose is run remotely on the selected station.
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The "Task Options" available are as follows:
Sync Events with Server - This collects and adds any new events from the selected client
Acknowledge Detected - Becomes available when a detection event is selected, and allows you to acknowledge it.
Quick/Full/Custom Scan - Provides the facility to initiate the chosen scan type on the selected station.
Definition Update - Requests the station to perform an AV definition update.
Remove Computer - Removes the selected station from the AV Information interface.
Client Installation For Servers
Stations with BCX Client will automatically have AV Information collected.
For Servers etc. that don’t have the BCX Client, use the AV Reporting Services Tab to install the AV reporting client.
Click Push MSI to begin a client install. (The Target device will need .NET4.0 pre-installed).
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In the resulting interface, either enter the desired station name, or browse for the required server.
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Click Push BCX AV Reporting
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After confirming your choice, wait for the installation to complete and press Enter when prompted.
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The new deployment will appear in the AV Reporting Services tab, and will also be added to the Security Information Tab in BCX Manager.
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AV Settings
To set up the AV feature in BCX go to File – Settings – AV Information Tab. From here select and adjust the settings as required.
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Enable AV information features – Tick to enable AV Information tab in BCX Manager (Default),
adjust refresh interval and retention period as required. Untick to disable.
Automatically create AV computer record for all stations - Tick to enable (Default), causes a record to be created for all stations existing in the Station Information tab, with or without an AV installation. Untick to disable.
On detected threat, go to AV Information on manager startup – Tick to enable (Default), forces the BCX Manager on startup, to open at the AV Information tab if a threat has been detected (or threats have not been acknowledged). Untick to disable.
Disable warning not scanned for over 2 weeks – Tick to enable, will not flag stations that have not been scanned for 2 weeks or more. Untick to disable (Default) and have stations not scanned present warnings.
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