We have deployed a single Windows 2012 server in the Amazon EC2 cloud. We need anti-virus and Intrusion Detection/Prevention installed on the server for obvious reasons. The server is a web+application+database server running IIS with ASP.Net code and SQL Sever Standard edition. Due to budget constraints, we will be using a single server for now, but may expand in future depending upon business growth.
While researching available options, we found that the Endpoint Protection product provided by symantec would serve our purpose. We are running into a few issues understanding the deployment configuration for this product and would really appreciate help from the forum members. I have tried researching the support documentation and other forum posts to get answers to my questions, but all of them address a multi-server configuration with a manager and multiple clients. I would really appreciate answers for the single-server scenario.
- Is Endpoint Protection the correct product for anti-virus and intrusion detection on a Windows Server from the symantec suite?
- I downloaded and installed a trial version on the single server, but it let me install only the manager piece. The link to install the anti-virus etc is always disabled. How do I install the anti-virus and other client pieces on the same server? Do I just create a client deployment and install it on the same server as the manager. Basically I need to know how to protect the manager hardware from viruses and intrustion attempts.
