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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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.