Outbreak Prevention Policy (OPP) for Worry-Free Business Security (WFBS) 9.0

- Updated:
- 6 Jun 2018
- Product/Version:
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 10.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.5
- Platform:
- Windows 2003 Enterprise
- Windows 2003 Server R2
- Windows 2003 Small Business Server
- Windows 2003 Small Business Server R2
- Windows 2003 Standard
- Windows 2008 Enterprise
- Windows 2008 Essential Business Server
- Windows 2008 Server R2
- Windows 2008 Small Business Server
- Windows 2008 Standard
- Windows 2011 Small Business Server Essentials
- Windows 2011 Small Business Server Standard
- Windows 2012 Enterprise
- Windows 2012 Server Essentials
- Windows 2012 Web Server Edition
- Windows 7 32-bit
- Windows 7 64-bit
- Windows 8 32-bit
- Windows 8 64-bit
- Windows 8.1 32-bit
- Windows 8.1 64-bit
- Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC
- Windows Vista 32-bit
- Windows Vista 64-bit
- Windows XP Home
- Windows XP Professional

Summary

A new and improved Outbreak Defense is introduced in WFBS 9.0

Details

The following are the enhancements for Outbreak Defense in WFBS 9.0:

Administrators can manually enable/disable OPP for all Agents. This task is now also consolidated in a single window.

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In WFBS 9.0, you can enable Outbreak Defense for Yellow Alerts, compared to the old Outbreak Defense where it is only triggered for Red Alerts.
The WFBS 9.0 OPP provides users with more functions:
- Limit/Deny access to shared folders
- Block ports
  
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  You can also set which ports to block.
  
  Limitations when blocking ports:
  - If the firewall of the Security Agent (SA) is not enabled, port blocking will not work.
  - The new OPP is only applicable to the SA and not for the Messaging Security Agent.
  - There is no exception list for "Blocked ports"
- Deny write access to files and folders
  
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