I believe that's a political decision, not backed by any technical detail. Kurt
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:18 PM > To: [email protected] > 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > 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. > >
