Corporate AV suggestions

[digitallachance at gmail.com (Francois Lachance)]

Yes, we have put AV on the Macs of our creative team.  The rest of the
enterprise is running Windows, and of course they too have AV.  The
developers have the same complaint, but they are on Windows.  Bottom line,
no matter what AV you put on, it will impact performance (some AV are worst
than other, of course).

AV is a necessary evil, because we don't have anything that is clearly
better yet (unless you want to implement application whitelisting, but that
has its own set of problems I hear).



On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Matthew Perry <mlperry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is anyone running AV on macs in their enterprise?  I am at a software shop
> and the developers claim that McAfee is really slowing down their compile
> times.
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:17 PM, leslie l <enlight2k at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have been happy with LANDesk AV which uses the Kaspersky engine.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:14:48 -0500
> > > From: xgermx at gmail.com
> >
> > > To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Corporate AV suggestions
> > >
> > > Thanks for all of the replies. If anyone else has info, feel free to
> > share.
> > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Pommerening, Jeremy
> > > <jpommerening at symbion.com> wrote:
> > > > I was having an issue with Sophos not catching Fake-AV too until I
> > turned on HIPS.  I'm catching most of it now with HIPS.  Environment is
> > approx 1000 nodes.  I will agree that the online database is slim but I'm
> > much happier than when we used Symantec EP.  As a bonus Sophos includes a
> > lot of functionality at no extra cost with Data Control (DLP) and Device
> > Control.
> > > > Jeremy Pommerening
> > > > MGR, Information Security
> > > > Symbion, Inc.
> > > > 615-234-8912 Direct
> > > > 615-429-6883 BB
> > > >
> > > > GIAC - GCFA,GPEN, GAWN & GCFW,
> > > > GIAC Advisory Board Member
> > > > MCSE Win2K, MCSE NT4,
> > > > CompTia SERVER+, HP APS
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:
> > pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of Josh Little
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 12:15 PM
> > > > To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> > > > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Corporate AV suggestions
> > > >
> > > > I'm on the fence regarding our Sophos EP distribution. I have a
> > feeling
> > > > that it is a little less resource intensive on the clients than the
> > > > Symantec 10 system we replaced, but not by a whole lot. Logging and
> > > > reporting isn't that strong, especially if you are looking at
> > offloading
> > > > events to a SIM or centralized log collector. Their online database of
> > > > threats is very slim on information, especially when compared with
> > > > Symantec's offering at http://www.sarc.com . It also doesn't deal
> > very
> > > > well with fast morphing threats like the rash of fake security
> > products
> > > > that have blown up in the last year. Almost all of the incidents I
> > > > respond to are fake AV crap. The management console is still fairly
> > > > nice, beyond being weak with reporting. One strong point is deployment
> > -
> > > > it was very easy to deploy out using SMS.
> > > >
> > > > Hope that helps...
> > > >
> > > > ZT
> > > >
> > > > On 5/11/2010 9:42 AM, Pommerening, Jeremy wrote:
> > > > > I've been very pleased with Sophos Endpoint protection both from a
> > pricing perspective and support perspective.
> > > > > Jeremy Pommerening
> > > > > MGR, Information Security
> > > > > Symbion, Inc.
> > > > > 615-234-8912 Direct
> > > > > 615-429-6883 BB
> > > > >
> > > > > GIAC - GCFA,GPEN, GAWN & GCFW,
> > > > > GIAC Advisory Board Member
> > > > > MCSE Win2K, MCSE NT4,
> > > > > CompTia SERVER+, HP APS
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com [mailto:
> > pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of xgermx
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:33 AM
> > > > > To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List
> > > > > Subject: [Pauldotcom] Corporate AV suggestions
> > > > >
> > > > > So, it's license renewal time for our A/V and I'm open for
> > > > > suggestions/recommendations/horror stories. (I'll be covering roughly
> > > > > 500 Windows based machines).
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