{"id":5312,"date":"2022-09-16T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2022-09-16T10:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T10:24:02","slug":"sophos-account-health-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/2022\/09\/products\/sophos-account-health-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Account Health Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos\u2019 endpoint and server protection solutions are packed with technologies that protect your customers&#8217; organization against advanced threats. To optimize their defenses, it\u2019s important that they are correctly configured and deployed.<\/p>\n<p>The Sophos Account Health Check enables you and your customers to quickly identify and address configuration issues with Sophos protected devices, maximizing your defenses. Available to all customers managing their Sophos endpoint and server security through the Sophos Central platform, it performs a number of key checks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Software assignment<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 do devices have all the right software assigned to them?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threat policy<\/strong>\u00a0\u200b\u2013 are policies using recommended settings?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exclusions<\/strong>\u200b \u2013 are any exclusions creating significant exposure?\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tamper protection<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 has tamper protection been disabled?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86558\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_86558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86558\" style=\"width: 1239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Policy_Screen-_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86558 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Policy_Screen-_1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1239px) 100vw, 1239px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Policy_Screen-_1.png 1239w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Policy_Screen-_1.png?resize=300,252 300w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Policy_Screen-_1.png?resize=768,645 768w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Policy_Screen-_1.png?resize=1024,860 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1239\" height=\"1041\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Threat policy check<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While recommended settings are automatically applied with all new Sophos deployments, over time issues can develop as devices are added and removed, team members change, and different software subscriptions are purchased.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend customers (or you) review the health check at least every three months to maintain a healthy environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Getting started with the Account Health Check<\/h2>\n<p>Find the Account Health Check in the main menu in Sophos Central:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86559\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86559\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_86559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86559\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Central_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86559 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Central_2.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Central_2.png 411w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Central_2.png?resize=236,300 236w\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Access via the main Sophos Central menu<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Clicking through takes you to the Account Health Check dashboard where you can see the status of all the checks in one place.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86557\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86557\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_86557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86557\" style=\"width: 1730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Summary_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Summary_1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1730px) 100vw, 1730px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Summary_1.png 1730w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Summary_1.png?resize=300,224 300w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Summary_1.png?resize=768,573 768w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Summary_1.png?resize=1024,764 1024w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Summary_1.png?resize=1536,1146 1536w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1730\" height=\"1291\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Account Health Check dashboard<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Example Check: Tamper Protection<\/h2>\n<p>Tamper protection prevents adversaries from turning off your customers&#8217; defenses so they can deploy their payloads. The tamper protection check identifies any machines with this feature disabled and provides guidance on how to fix it.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Click the link to jump directly to device management list, then select the impacted devices and turn tamper protection back on. \u200b<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86561\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86561\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_86561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86561\" style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Tamper-Protection-Report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86561 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Tamper-Protection-Report.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Tamper-Protection-Report.png 601w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Tamper-Protection-Report.png?resize=300,118 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamper protection report<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If tamper protection has been turned off at a global level, you will be prompted to enable it in the Global Settings before fixing individual machines.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86560\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_86560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86560\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Tamper-Protection-Screen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86560 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Tamper-Protection-Screen.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Tamper-Protection-Screen.png 551w, https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AHC_Tamper-Protection-Screen.png?resize=300,144 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamper protection update guidance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Click-to-Fix<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cClick-to-Fix\u201d will be the next enhancement to the Account Health Check feature. This will allow you to easily correct a failed check; for example, to update all Threat Protection policies to use with Sophos recommended settings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>More to come!<\/h2>\n<p>We are continuing to develop the Account Health Check capability and will be adding further checks and remediation guidance in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Should you need help running the check, check out our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/intercept-x-endpoint\/b\/blog\/posts\/account-health-check\">Sophos Community article<\/a>\u00a0and reach out to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/support\">Sophos technical support team<\/a>.<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimize the health of your customers&#8217; endpoints and servers with our intuitive Account Health Check feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3000005313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[33,34,112],"coauthors":[42],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-intercept-x","tag-intercept-x-for-server","tag-sophos-endpoint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/featured-image-Account-Health-Check.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5356,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions\/5356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/es-es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}