Best Practices for Agents on Microsoft Servers

Products

• Carbon Black App Control (formerly Cb Protection)

Issue/Introduction

What are some best practices for App Control Agents on Microsoft Server endpoints?

Environment

• App Control Server: All Supported Versions
• Microsoft Windows Server: All Supported Versions

Resolution

Some of the Common Practices or Best Practices include, but are not limited to:

• Verify all Policies for application servers are separate and unique from any workstation Policy.
  • Custom Rules for application servers will differ from workstations, and vice versa.
  • Exclusions for application servers or workstations will vary greatly.
• Verifying any applicable Rapid Config or Updater is enabled and configured accordingly, examples:
  • Microsoft Exchange Server
  • Microsoft SQL Server
• Review the Custom Rules Best Practices Guide.
• Review Custom Rules to Avoid.