Re: Personal Firewalls

[Kay Sommers <ksommers () VCU EDU>]

Symantec hasn't been much help.   We discovered SCS wasn't getting the
secuirty patches when there was a personal firewall security alert
several weeks ago.  Symantec said that it was their design not to have
SCS get the updates since the patches could break large numbers of
computers when pushed out from the admin console.  This seems backwards
since the consumer version does get the patches, but of course can't be
managed centrally.

We are still struggling with how to distribute SCS to thousands of users
and are now looking into the possibility of using ZEN Patch Management
to take care of delivering all the patches.

James Van Meter wrote:

> We have purchased SCS as well; however, have not yet began to deploy it.
> Has Symantec assisted at all with a resolution on the liveupdate issue?
>
> James Van Meter
> Security Administration
> Medical College of Georgia
> 706.721.3487
>
> James Van Meter
> Security Administration
> Medical College of Georgia
> jvanmete () mcg edu
> 706-721-3487
>
>
> > > > ksommers () VCU EDU 06/25/04 4:18 PM >>>
> We have a site license that includes SCS, but we are having problems
> deploying it.   We would like to deploy it as "managed" so that users
> get the FW, intrusion detection and A/V updates automatically.
> However, we've found that only the A/V signature files get updated and
> even if we distributed it "unmanaged" which means we would have to
> depend on the users using the LiveUpdate option, security patches are
> not included.  To get the security patches for SCS, the user would have
> to download a patch separately.
> Does anybody have a solution to these problems?
>
> Lucas, Bryan wrote:
>
>
>
> > We've considered the SCS from Symantec, but honestly I think we're
> > waiting for SP2 from XP which will be free rather than buying some
> > package.  From what I've read it will be manageable via Group Policy
> and
>
>
> > free, did I mention that ;)
> >
> > Bryan Lucas
> > Lead Server Administrator
> > Texas Christian University
> > (817) 257-6971
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
> > [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Sadler, Connie
> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:33 AM
> > To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> > Subject: [SECURITY] Personal Firewalls
> >
> >
> > Does anyone recommend a personal firewall on campus? If not, are you
> > considering doing so? If you do make a recommendation, did you do an
> > eval? We're considering an evaluation of personal firewalls, for remote
> > users as well as users on campus, and know that it presents risks and
> > challenges. I'm interested in what others may have learned about this.
> >
> > Connie J. Sadler, CM, CISSP, CISM
> > Director, IT Security, Brown University
> > Box 1885, Providence, RI 02912
> > Connie_Sadler () Brown edu
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