Re: Managed AV

["Hagan, Sean" <sean.hagan () YC EDU>]

We considered nine different products and did on-site evals of six of them (not all would be considered "AV" - they 
might be considered NGAV or simply anti-malware or EPP/EDR).  Ended up selecting Trend Micro and have been generally 
very pleased (but we're not using many of the more advanced features at the moment).  This replaced Microsoft's SCEP.  
I will say price and ease of management were our primary considerations.  This will vary by geographic area, but we 
also had excellent sales and SE reps for Trend, and while I personally liked the Sophos product better, their sales and 
SE reps didn't represent the product well and didn't give us confidence that we'd get good support if we needed it.  
They also tried to pull a fast one on us during the final quotation process.

Products we considered:
Sophos (Cloud Endpoint + InterceptX) *
Kaspersky *
Carbon Black (Protect and Defense, although we spent more time looking at Protect) *
MalwareBytes
Trend Micro (Smart Protection Complete)*
Cisco AMP *
HEAT Software Lumension (pretty sure the name has changed now)
Palo Alto Traps *
CyberArk

* = we conducted an on-site trial of these.

Happy to speak about any of this or share pricing information if it's helpful - it's now at least four months old, and 
was based on ~500 endpoints since we were only going to protect employee workstations, but you could at least see 
relative differences.

Regards,

Sean

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Sean Hagan
Chief Information Security Officer
Yavapai College
(928) 717-7651 - direct
https://www.yc.edu<https://www.yc.edu/>




From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Dexter 
Caldwell
Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 8:16 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Managed AV

All,
                What AV product(s) are you using and are you happy with it's features?  (Detection, management, 
performance, user experience, etc.)  We're looking at changing or adding a product and I'd like to hear your thoughts 
if you're willing to share.

Thanks,

Dexter Caldwell
Dir. Systems & Networks
Information Technology Services
Furman University
3300 Poinsett Hwy
Greenville, SC 29613
email: dexter.caldwell () furman edu<mailto:dexter.caldwell () furman edu>
office: 864-294-3566
facsimile: 864-294.3001