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McAfee ePO Cloud shares many similarities with SecurityCenter. There are also differences in the way that McAfee ePO Cloud and SecurityCenter present your security options. This overview is designed to help you ease your transition and identify options for securing your environment using McAfee ePO Cloud. To continue learning about McAfee ePO Cloud, click on the arrow to the right of this slide. Comparing McAfee Security Center to McAfee ePO Cloud

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Page 1: Comparing McAfee Security Center to McAfee ePO Cloud · McAfee ePO Cloud shares many similarities with SecurityCenter. There are also differences in the way that McAfee ePO Cloud

McAfee ePO Cloud shares many similarities with SecurityCenter.

There are also differences in the way that McAfee ePO Cloud and

SecurityCenter present your security options. This overview is

designed to help you ease your transition and identify options for

securing your environment using McAfee ePO Cloud.

To continue learning about McAfee ePO Cloud, click on the arrow

to the right of this slide.

Comparing McAfee Security Center to McAfee ePO Cloud

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Account management in McAfee Security Center is spread across

three areas:

• My Account

• My Licenses

• The Purchase Licenses button under Actions

McAfee ePO Cloud consolidates account management on the My

Account page, available from the McAfee ePO Cloud menu.

The My Account page includes the ability to:

• Manage subscriptions

• Download product installs

• Add users

•Updateaccountprofiles

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Feature or FunctionMcAfee SecurityCenter

McAfeeePO Cloud Notes

Dashboards Both products support 18 different languages

Language support

Monitors Called widgets in SecurityCenter

Policy Assignments

Policy Catalog

Product management

Reports

System management

System tree

URL installation of endpoint products

User management

Automatic product update

Client tasks

Getting Started workflow

Policy comparison

Policy history

Queries

Server tasks

Tag groups

Tags

Active Directory synchronization This feature will be implemented in ePO Cloud in a future release

Notifications

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The SecurityCenter menu stretches across the top of the screen.

Submenus are nested beneath each menu item.

The Actions and Widgets menus provide additional functionality.

McAfeeePOCloudprovidesafly-outmenufornavigationtodif-

ferent functions and managed product features. This menu shows

your recently used items and information about your install and

who you are logged in as.

Drag your frequently used menu items to the top of the screen for

quick access to the features you use most often.

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McAfee SecurityCenter provides a dashboard you can customize

with widgets to gain insights into your system security.

With McAfee ePO Cloud you can select from many dashboards,

each with a different theme. Within each dashboard you will see

one or more monitors.

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Depending on your software subscriptions, you can protect mobile

devices, as well as desktop computers and laptops. For this

reason, McAfee ePO Cloud lists systems instead of computers.

ToseeallyourmanagedsystemsselectSystemsfromtheflyout

menu. To modify tasks on one or more systems, apply tags, view

events, and more, choose System Tree.

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Wrapping Up

McAfee SecurityCenter and McAfee ePO Cloud help you manage your security software and protect your network. You can

transition to McAfee ePO Cloud with a minimum of network interruption.

Next Steps

• Make sure that you have used the SecurityCenter cleanup tool under Utilities > Optimization to uninstall theSaaS endpoint client.

• Logon to McAfee ePO Cloud. We have already created an account for you, since you are moving from McAfee SecurityCenter.

• RecreateanycustompoliciesyouoriginallydefinedinMcAfeeSecurityCenter.Noactionneedstobetakenifyouwereusing the Default policies in McAfee SecurityCenter, and wish to continue using Default policies in McAfee ePO.