Hehe... Regards,
*ASB* *https://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker <https://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker>* *Providing CyberSecurity and IT Operations Consulting for the SMB market…* * GPG: *860D 40A1 4DA5 3AE1 B052 8F9F 07A1 F9D6 A549 8842 On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Finland and Russia are side by side. Russia’s #2 city (Saint Petersburg) > is only about 75 miles from the Finland border. There are probably as many > FSB (KGB) agents at F-Secure as there are at Kaspersky. J > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *geoff_taylor geoff_taylor > *Sent:* Friday, September 15, 2017 9:05 AM > *To:* ntsysadm > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Dropping Kaspersky Av, who to replace it with? > > > > I like the offerings of F-Secure. They are Finnish so somewhat removed > from the Kremlin. Full disclosure, in other lives I sold both McAfee and > F-Secure products, and I have used a myriad of others, principally Symantec. > > gt > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: Eric Wittersheim <[email protected]> > Date: September 15, 2017 at 8:02 AM > > We went from ESET to Sophos. The product is good but their support is not. > I have had a lot better luck with the Win clients than my Mac clients as > well. If they could get support fully staffed and trained I would have no > problems with them. > > > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 6:47 AM, James M. Pulver < [email protected]> > wrote: > > I've always liked ESET, and when we dropped Symantec, ESET was quoted to > be the least expensive of a bunch we looked at. The ERA appliance is great, > but a self install on Linux was buggy as hell. Glad I moved to the Virtual > Appliance. Their tech support is B+ in my opinion. Upgraded to an A- as > they don't run screaming from Linux. Some of the best I've dealt with, the > main failing is no real route back to devs if there's a bug, but in terms > of using what's there and being aware of work-arounds - they're among the > best I've ever interacted with. > > They seem to be pretty effective, but then so was Symantec in our > environment - we don't give out admin, and seem to have enough e-mail > screening via Office 365 and central IT to really limit ransomware, > followed by decent user culture of asking before clicking so there's not a > lot of chances for it to step in. It does kill a few "driveby" unwanted > applications for us, but we haven't (knock on wood) seen much real malware > anyway. > > So if you have to tick the box for AV, like we do, ESET is a pretty good > choice IMO. The other obvious "tick the box" one would be Windows Defender > if you don't have to be cross platform. However, I think ESET is more > effective - but as others said, that's not a high bar. > > I should point out, even the "traditional AV" isn't traditional AV anymore > - ESET isn't just scanning against signatures. They have HIPS as well as > behavior analysis and the like. > > James Pulver > CLASSE Computer Group > Cornell University > > On 09/14/2017 12:31 PM, Michael Leone wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > >
