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Plan your evaluation
Write down the workflow, systems, operating owner, and evidence needed to make your decision. Use the same scope for every supplier, and ask which parts of the demonstration are included in the proposed package.
Protection and coverage
Inventory workstations, servers, remote devices, and operating systems. Record unsupported cases and dependencies instead of assuming one endpoint agent covers every environment.
Investigation and response
Follow a safe test event into an investigation. Check what an analyst can inspect, how a device can be contained, and who authorizes a disruptive action.
Deployment and operations
Trial agent rollout, upgrades, policy changes, and exception handling on representative devices. Include a recovery path for a device that loses connectivity.
Questions to ask
- Which device and operating-system combinations are supported?
- Can an analyst reconstruct the event and approve a response?
- How are deployment failures, exclusions, and agent health handled?
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