Endpoint Location

OfficeScan provides a location awareness feature that determines whether the OfficeScan agent’s location is internal or external. Location awareness is leveraged in the following OfficeScan features and services:

Table 1. Features and Services that Leverage Location Awareness

Feature/Service

Description

Web Reputation Services

The OfficeScan agent’s location determines the web reputation policy that the OfficeScan agent will apply. Administrators typically enforce a stricter policy for external agents.

For details about web reputation policies, see Web Reputation Policies.

File Reputation Services

For agents that use smart scan, the OfficeScan agent’s location determine the smart protection source to which agents send scan queries.

External OfficeScan agents send scan queries to Smart Protection Network while internal agents send the queries to the sources defined in the smart protection source list.

For details about smart protection sources, see Smart Protection Sources.

Data Loss Prevention

The OfficeScan agent’s location determines the Data Loss Prevention policy that the agent will apply. Administrators typically enforce a stricter policy for external agents.

For details about Data Loss Prevention policies, see Data Loss Prevention Policies.

Device Control

The OfficeScan agent’s location determines the Device Control policy that the agent will apply. Administrators typically enforce a stricter policy for external agents.

For details about Device Control policies, see Device Control.
Parent topic: Managing the OfficeScan Agent