SEP for Mac 12.1.4 ignores IPS Excluded Hosts

Products

• Endpoint Protection

Issue/Introduction

You have configured Excluded Hosts in the IPS policy on Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM).

After deploying the Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 12.1 RU4 Mac client to the systems, it is noticed that Excluded Hosts were not excluded correctly.

Cause

Criteria used for Excluded Hosts is not an IP address/range/subnet.

Resolution

This is as designed.

SEP for Mac does support Excluded Hosts for IP addresses (including IP range and subnet). However, it does not support MAC addresses, hostnames or domain names.

 

Applies To

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 12.1 RU4 for Mac .