Re: OT: Av and Gartner...

[Luca Berra <bluca () comedia it>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:09:31PM -0500, John Keeton wrote:
> Slightly OT here. 
>
> In corporate land, where does everyone have AV installed? Currently, we
> have desktop, NT servers, and email gateway. I am thinking that we need
> http/ftp scanning via ICAP from our proxy, but Gartner[1] says http/ftp 
> scanning is uneeded. I don't know if I agree.. -OR- Are people installing
> malicious code detection software, like www.finjan.com?? 
http/ftp scanning is a nice idea, the only little problem is how you
would deal with ssl connections. if you don't deal with https, then
don't worry about http scanning.

> [1] At my employ Gartner is god.  
don't worry too much, next time Gartner will state just the opposite,
so you just have to stick to gartners recomendations that suits you
:))))

L.

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