Ditto on the belt and braces approach. I've had a lot of good experiences with Sunbelt's Vipre product. It is extremely easy to deploy and manage in the enterprise.
On 27 October 2010 11:32, Jamie Riden <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 October 2010 19:26, bk <[email protected]> wrote: > > (resending from correct account) > > On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Mikhail A. Utin wrote: > > > >> Folks, > >> We are looking an enterprise level AV-software <snip>. Any advising? > > > > Signature-based AV is a dead technology. Updates don't get released > until hours after you're already infected, so all it really ends up doing is > being a resource-suck on your CPUs and hard-disk access. > > > > My recommendation: Buy whatever has the highest composite score for ease > of management, limited resource consumption, and affordability. > > > > Anyone who says "get Vendor X" or "get Brand Y" without telling you what > selection criteria they used is a tool. How do you know if what is > important to you was also important to them in making the selection? > > If you've got a decent perimeter, it should keep the threats out for > some time, but I tend to agree. AV these days is starting to be more > about detection than prevention - it will at least highlight that you > have a problem so you can deal with it. Think of it as part of your > intrusion detection if it helps. > > Oh, and somewhere I used to work ran two separate AV products on the > mail gateway, and then a third on desktops on servers. I suspect this > was more about licensing models (couldn't do per-seat for email as we > had >100k email addresses) than paranoia, but it did help out > considerably to have independent engines. > > cheers, > Jamie > -- > Jamie Riden / [email protected] / [email protected] > http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jamieriden > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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