Deployment Checklist: MDR Complete

Deployment Phase

Questions

Creating MDR Portal Accounts & User Management

• Have I created my own MDR Portal account?
• Were the correct users invited?
• Have invited users activated their account?

Setting up the Monitoring Profile

• Have I collected the proper information in advance?
  • Client’s domains Client’s email domains
  • Client’s public IPs
  • Staff locations

Setting up Active Response

• Have I chosen the appropriate Response Policy (Limited, Balanced, Aggressive) myself or the client?
• Did I enable Active Response before integrating Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace for cloud monitoring?
  • When integrating these services, you will be prompted to enable Active Response for the service.

Setting up Cloud Monitoring

• Have I collected admin credentials for all the cloud services i want to enroll for MDR Cloud monitoring?
• Microsoft 365: 
  • Have I authorized Microsoft 365 fore Cloud Monitoring?
  • Have I enabled audit logging?
• Google Workspace:
  • Have I enabled audit logging? 
  • have I allowed Field Effect MDR access via the Google Admin Console?

• Have I set up the additional features available to me? 
  • ITSM Integrations
  • Other Integrations
  • AI Detection & Response (AIDR)
  • DNS Firewall
  • SEAS
  • Single Sign On
  • Antivirus Management
  • Syslog Forwarding
  • Drive Lock
  • Enable Optional AROs

Physical Network Sensor

• Have I verified my deployment by visiting the sensor's online management interface? 

Installing Endpoint Agents

• Have I downloaded the appropriate install package(s) (macOS, Windows, Linux)? 
• Have I downloaded the install package(s) specific to your client in the MDR Portal?