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Corporate AV suggestions
From: Russell.Butturini at Healthways.com (Butturini, Russell)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:10:34 -0500
Fortunately or unfortunately, I've worked with almost every product that's been discussed so far: here are my thoughts: 1. Nod32 probably has the best client piece of all 3...Very lightweight and not resource intensive at all. We had full system scans running while playing WoW with no performance impact! I never was a fan of the centralized management in larger environments though. Having to define mirror servers, manage client passwords, policy, etc. was always a little bit clunky when you got over 100 machines IMO. 2. Agree with the post about Trend. One of their client release really required a lot of horsepower to run. Also they seemed to go through a period of missing some really big threats. They do have a terrific management console and their entire product suite integrates together really nicely. 3. We are running Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 and I've done deployments other places as well. It does a nice job mitigating threats and has some great host based IPS features. The pricing can be steep, but you also get a lot of extras like vulnerability scanners and integration with full disk encryption solutions. Lately though, the last few updates (RU5 and RU6) have had some odd issues with breaking things on client machines. We've seen a higher than normal issue rate in these last few upgrades. Also, doing large scale deployments to unmanaged machines can be a little clunky from the console. Using a 3rd party package to distribute an MSI to your clients works a whole lot better. Hope this helps! Looking forward to hearing other people's thoughts! ________________________________ From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of infogeek2u at gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 9:27 AM To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Corporate AV suggestions On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:32 AM, xgermx <xgermx at gmail.com<mailto:xgermx at gmail.com>> wrote: So, it's license renewal time for our A/V and I'm open for suggestions/recommendations/horror stories. (I'll be covering roughly 500 Windows based machines). I would be interested in seeing the responses to this question. I will be in the same position in a few months. Currently we are using Symantec but are still on v10.1. I've heard more good than bad about v11 but no personal experience with it myself. We have been happy with the Symantec product. It has been easy to roll out and administer and catches the majority of bad stuff that I would expect it to. ****************************************************************************** This email contains confidential and proprietary information and is not to be used or disclosed to anyone other than the named recipient of this email, and is to be used only for the intended purpose of this communication. ****************************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pauldotcom.com/pipermail/pauldotcom/attachments/20100511/bb83e9fa/attachment.htm
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