Re: Microsoft antivirus

["Fisher, Matthew C" <FisherMC () WOFFORD EDU>]

We have been using MS Endpoint AV for a while now and it works well...especially for the price. We had it integrated 
with SCCM 2007 and have since upgraded to SCCM 2012 and everything works out good. Like previously mentioned the 
reporting is good and with the SQL back-end you can create more custom reports if needed to meet your needs. The 
detection/remediation seems to be pretty good as well...but as with any AV though there will still be some things get 
through the cracks here and there. The CPU and Memory consumption of the AV client is not too bad either as its  
in-line or better than some other AVs we tested out. The SCCM 2012 agent will deploy the AV for you if that is setup so 
deploying it is very easy. It saves us a lot of money so it's worth it for our setup. The only issue we run into 
occasionally is that the  definition update process relies on Windows Update and if that service gets stopped for any 
reason your definitions will fall behind.

As for MAC/Linux clients I have not tested that yet so I don't really have any input on that portion of it.  


Thanks

Matt Fisher
Wofford College
Information Technology
864-597-4274

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Ed 
Zawacki
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 12:18 PM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Microsoft antivirus

I'm curious as to whether anyone has taken advantage of their campus'
Microsoft licensing agreement to switch from say McAffee or Symantec's endpoint solution to Microsoft's?

If so, how are you feeling about the Microsoft solution?

Or, if you thought about it and decided not to do it, I'm also interested in the rationale/any documentation you might 
have on that decision.

(Obviously, the cost savings would be nice, but I'm not too impressed by what I see from MS. Just wondering if I'm 
missing something)

Thanks

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Chicago
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