Symantec Endpoint Protection is a cybersecurity defense program that is designed for small businesses. There are some amazing features that come along with it. For example, there are antivirus, anti-spyware, and firewalls to protect computers and laptops from being exposed to online threats and hackers. Symantec Endpoint Security helps to scan and analyze the files and applications for more potential threats and prevent the employees from being open to attacks.Apart from the major protection Symantec Endpoint Protection offers, it also has a central control panel to monitor the cloud through an online portal. With administrative privileges, the user will have the capability to add exceptions and form policies for devices to receive alerts through emails or SMS. In this article, you’ll read the steps to add exception in Symantec Endpoint protection. If you want to skip a file or folder from Symantec Endpoint Protection’s scanning, you can add an exception.
When it comes to exceptions, there are different exceptions you can have for your Windows platform.
- Auto-Protect (Extension Exception)
- Scheduled and on-demand (Extension Exception)
- Security Risk (File Exception)
- SONAR (File Exception)
- All Scans (Extension Exception)
- Application Control (File Exception)
