Create User Groups - McAfee TSA00M005PAA - Total Protection Service Product Manual

Introducing Total Protection Service
Management with the SecurityCenter
Subscription tracking — Widgets are available to show subscription and licensing
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information for your account. Click a button to install protection, create a trial subscription,
renew or purchase a subscription, or buy additional licenses.
Links to related portals — Some widgets contain a link to a portal used for managing
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non-client-based protection, such as email protection and vulnerability scanning.
The SecurityCenter offers two powerful tools for protecting and monitoring displaying your
computers and fine-tuning their security settings.
• User groups: Create groups for computers that have one or more common characteristics.
This enables you to view and manage them as a single entity when needed.
Customized policies: Select settings for protection features, save them in a policy, and
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assign the policy to computers or groups of computers. This enables you to configure
settings targeted specifically for each computer's environment and risk factors.
From the SecurityCenter, access important information and additional management tools.
• Installation wizard and links to remote installation methods.
• Detailed identification, activity, and detection data for the groups and computers on
your account.
• Administrative reports.
• Policy configuration tools.
• Account configuration, reference information, and subscription status.
• Helpful utilities.
• Product documentation and links to product support and demos.

Create user groups

A group consists of one or more computers that share a particular feature. Each computer
running the client software belongs to a group. By default, computers are placed in the
Default Group.
In large accounts, groups are an essential tool for managing computers because they let you
manage different types of computers more easily. You can view all the computers in a group,
view detections and reports for the group, and assign security settings (called policies ) to a
group as a single entity rather than individually. You can base groups on geographic location,
department, computer type, user tasks, or anything meaningful to your organization.
For example, you might place all laptops used by traveling sales representatives into a single
group called Sales Team. You can then view details about this group of computers separately
from other computers in your account. You can easily check detections for these computers
or customize their security settings to protect them from the risks specific to users of public
networks.
To create groups, use the Computers tab on the SecurityCenter website.
The following example shows how an administrator might configure policies for client computers
in three different groups. You should configure policies for your users to meet your own
company's needs.
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