http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/09/14/dhs-vs-kaspersky-lab-why-us-government-is-ditching-russian-software-giant.html
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: [email protected] [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael Leone > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:32 PM > To: [email protected] > 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. > > > -- Daniel Rodriguez [email protected]
