Endpoint Standard: What does a Background Scan do?

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)

Issue/Introduction

What does a Background Scan do?

Environment

• Carbon Black Cloud Console: 
  • Endpoint Standard
• 'Run background scan' turned on for Policy (Enforce > Policies)

Resolution

• The Sensor iterates thru all drive letters and will only perform a Background Scan on "fixed" drives
• This process helps to pre-populate a local reputation database (information about reputations and hashes)