Kaseya VSA: organizations, policies, patching and hardening

Skills you'll practise

• Place devices in the right organization, site and agent group when deploying the VSA 10 agent
• Explain how VSA 10 policies are assigned and inherited, and that they are non-cumulative per type
• Describe the three tiers of patch review and the reboot options in a patch policy
• Use teams and access levels to give technicians least privilege
• Describe what the July 2021 VSA attack was and the protective steps CISA and the FBI advised

Course outline

1. 1.Organizations, sites, agent groups and deploymentLesson · 15 min
2. 2.Policies, monitoring, patching and automationLesson · 18 min
3. 3.Access, logging, deletion and the 2021 attackLesson · 17 min
4. 4.Kaseya VSA: organizations, policies, patching and hardening: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
5. 5.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Organizations
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Creating agent groups
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Deploying to Windows
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Discovery and deployment
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Policies
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Monitored services profiles
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Patch review
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Patch policies
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Automation introduction
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Teams and users
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Two-factor authentication
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Audit log
• Kaseya VSA 10 help: Device management
• Kaseya VSA 9.5 help: Policy Management
• Kaseya VSA 9.5 help: Agent procedures

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