Re: End Point Security - relying on one vendor's product a weakness in itself?

["Malcolm Heath" <malcolmpdx () gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM, secrookie () gmail com <secrookie () gmail com> wrote:
> Our company is looking into using one vendor's product to manage our
>  workstations end-point security which consists of:
>
>  Antivirus/Spyware
>  Managed Firewall
>  IPS
>  Application Control
>  Buffer Overflow
>  Device Control (USB, PDA, Phones etc..)

There's been some good discussion of this, but I thought I'd bring up
one other point.  Most of the vendors offering all in one solutions
have put together these products from a variety of third party
products themselves, from companies they have bought or licensed from.
 Integration is rarely well done.  Sure, they might have a unified
console of some sort or another, but internally, they're very much
separate programs and can conflict with each other.

One of the biggest issues with endpoint security I see is how to do
all these things you mention in a way that doesn't make the endpoint
unusable for actually doing work on. due to resource contention
issues.

Malcolm