Configuring threat protection

• For Driver loading and Driver integrity audit rules, you must create a driver ID beforehand for every legitimate driver to ignore.
  For more information, refer to the section Creating driver identifiers.
• For all other protection types, application identifiers must be created beforehand for every application to be protected and for every approved application to be excluded from the protection rules.
  For more information, refer to the section Creating application identifiers.

1. Select the Security > Policies menu and click on your policy.
   
2. Select the protection or audit rule set to which you want to add your rule.
   The main page of the rule set appears.
3. Click on the Threats tab.
4. If you are in read-only mode, click on Edit in the upper banner.
5. Enable the desired rule by clicking on on the left.
6. In the Status field in Default behavior, there are three or four statuses for each protection mode. Select:
   • Allow: SES Evolution does not block malicious actions and does not generate any logs.
   • Detect only: As in audit mode, SES Evolution detects malicious actions without blocking them, and generates logs for the administrator. But unlike audit mode, this option stops evaluating the rules that follow, and ignores them.
   • Block: SES Evolution blocks malicious actions and generates logs for the administrator.
   • Block and kill: SES Evolution blocks malicious actions and shuts down the process that launched the action.
   • Block, kill and quarantine SES Evolution blocks malicious actions, shuts down the process that launched the action and quarantines suspicious files. See Managing file quarantine.
     For audit rules, the available actions are always Allow, which does not do anything, and Audit, which generates a log and evaluates the next rule.
7. Click on + Add a specific behavior to add the IDs of the applications for which the protection must behave differently. In process hollowing for example, you can enable the protection by default, and disable it specifically for your internal applications, such as virtualization tools, that use this operating mode.

8. In the upper banner in the rule, you can:

   • Enter a comment.

   • Indicate whether the rule must generate a context when applied. For some protection types, a context is automatically generated because in addition to logs, context details are also necessary for such attacks.
   • Select the log settings that this rule will send.
   • Specify whether an action must be performed when a log is sent for this rule.

     NOTE
     If you want logs to be managed differently by application, your rules must be spread out into different rule sets. Rule sets cannot contain several rules for the same threat.

9. Once the first protection type is configured, repeat steps 5 to 8 to configure the other protection types.
10. Click on Save at the top right of the window to save changes.

Advanced protection modes are available in the same panel as rules against threats described earlier. For more information, refer to the section Protection against various threats.

To enable and configure advanced protection:

1. In the desired policy, select the protection or audit rule set to which you want to add your rule.
2. Click on the Threats tab.
3. If you are in read-only mode, click on Edit in the upper banner.
4. Enable the desired rule by clicking on on the left.
5. In the Version drop-down list, indicate the version of the protection that you wish to run - either a version in particular or Always use latest version. If you are not using the latest version available, the indicator will appear to the right of the drop-down list. It also appears on a policy's general panel when at least one enabled advanced protection mode is not using its latest version.
6. In the Status field, several statuses are available for each protection. Select:
   • Allow: SES Evolution does not block malicious actions and does not generate any logs.
   • Detect only: As in audit mode, SES Evolution detects malicious actions without blocking them, and generates logs for the administrator. But unlike audit mode, this option stops evaluating the rules that follow, and ignores them.
   • Block: SES Evolution blocks malicious actions and generates logs for the administrator.
   • Block and kill: SES Evolution blocks malicious actions and shuts down the process that launched the action.
   • Block, kill and quarantine SES Evolution blocks malicious actions, shuts down the process that launched the action and quarantines suspicious files. See Managing file quarantine.
     
7. In the upper banner in the rule, you can:
   • Select the version of the protection. All versions are kept in databases and remain available in the administration console.
   • Enter a comment.
   • Select the log settings that this rule will send.
   • Specify whether an action must be performed when a log is sent for this rule.
8. Rules against WMI persistence, Malicious use of certutil, Environment discovery, Ransomware and Parent PID Spoofing each have specific parameters:

   WMI Persistence	Compatibility list: in this section, list the consumers that represent legitimate WMI events and which the protection mode must not block.
   Protection against malicious use of certutil	Compatibility list: in this section, add the IDs of applications likely to use certutil.exe for legitimate purposes and which the protection mode must not block.
   Environment discovery	Interval: indicate the interval in seconds (minimum five seconds) between the first command and the last command, and the interval after which discovery operations must be ignored. Compatibility list: in this section, add the IDs of applications allowed to run commands similar to discovery operations and which the protection mode must not block. Sensitivity: select the threshold above which the protection will be triggered.
   Ransomware	Compatibility list: add here identifiers for legitimate encryption applications that should not be blocked by protection, such as StormshieldData Security. Sensitivity: select the threshold above which the protection will be triggered. With a Very low level, the protection mode will be triggered if a ransomware program encrypted at least 20 files within 3 seconds. With a Low level, the threshold will be 15 files, and with the Moderate level, 10 files. If you enable this anti-ransomware protection mode, ensure that you also Enabling Windows shadow copies so that you can restore lost files if necessary. For further information on restoration, refer to Managing ransomware attacks.
   Parent PID Spoofing	Compatibility: here, add the IDs of applications that will be allowed to spoof parent processes without being blocked by the protection mechanism.

9. Click on Save at the top right of the window to save changes.

NOTE
If subsequently, you want to change the version of an advanced protection, a deployment is required after the change is made.