Novell ZENWORKS ENDPOINT SECURITY MANAGEMENT User Guide
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Endpoint Security Client 4.0 User Guide
ZENworks® Endpoint Security Management
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ZENworks Endpoint Security Client 4.0 User Guide
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About This Guide
This Novell® ZENworks® Endpoint Security Client 4.0 User Guide is written to instruct the end-user
on the operation of the Endpoint Security Client 4.0 for Microsoft Windows* Vista*.
The information in this guide is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, “Introduction,” on page 9
Chapter 2, “Endpoint Security Client 4.0 Overview,” on page 11
Chapter 3, “Using the Endpoint Security Client 4.0,” on page 15
Audience
This guide can be sent to all employees in the enterprise to help them understand how to use the
Endpoint Security Client.
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ZENworks Endpoint Security Management is supported by other documentation (in both PDF and
HTML formats) that you can use to learn about and implement the product. For additional
documentation, see the ZENworks Endpoint Security Management 3.5 documentation Web site
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Contents
About This Guide 5
1 Introduction 9
1.1 Security Enforcement for Mobile Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2 NDIS Layer Firewall Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2 Endpoint Security Client 4.0 Overview 11
2.1 ESM Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2 Logging In to the Endpoint Security Client 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3 Using the Endpoint Security Client 4.0 15
3.1 Moving Among Network Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2 Changing Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.3 Data Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.3.1 Managing Files on Non-System Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.3.2 Managing Files on Removable Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.4 Updating Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.5 Viewing Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.6 Overriding a Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.7 Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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