Here we go, DHS announcement.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/09/13/dhs-statement-issuance-binding-operational-directive-17-01


-----Original Message-----
From: Kennedy, Jim 
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:26 PM
To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Dropping Kaspersky Av, who to replace it with?

Looks like the WH's cybersecurity dude announced it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/kaspersky-is-being-banned-across-the-us-government-by-trump-2017-9


-----Original Message-----
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:18 PM
To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Dropping Kaspersky Av, who to replace it with?

As I've recommended Kaspersky for about a decade now, I'm interested in knowing 
your source. :-)

I know that the USA is less and less happy with Russia... But I've not found 
anything that even seems official...

-----Original Message-----
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael Leone
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:32 PM
To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [NTSysADM] Dropping Kaspersky Av, who to replace it with?

We use Kaspersky for our AV needs, and to be honest, it's worked out well for 
us. It's certainly caught things that McAfee, our previous AV solution, didn't. 
However, they have this slight problem with being a covert arm of the Russian 
government, apparently ..

So we need to drop them, as the federal agencies are doing.

There are lots of reviews, such as av-test.org, that we are looking at. But 
tell me, who do you have? And - more importantly - if you had your say in the 
matter, would you keep them?

We're an sort of enterprise level organization, maybe 1K users, bunch of 
laptops issued to remote users. So far, all Win 7 for workstations, but 
obviously that will change in the future. Servers are all Win
2008/2012 R2 (so far). So we need something with a centralized console, to push 
out rules, updates, etc.

We use Proofpoint as an email gateway, so it does mail scanning. We have 
Checkpoint firewalls for managing that sort of traffic.

Thoughts?  I know I've heard good things about ESET and Sophos, among others. 
Just soliciting some real world opinions, along with our own research.


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