We had ePO - it was one of the driving reasons for us to abandon it. The other reason was the unreasonable amount of resources the client sucked out of the workstations. Yet another reason was the price - we got VIPRE Enterprise for the renewal price of McAfee, and the renewal price on VIPRE was hard to beat.
Hard to say which reason topped the others - kind of a 3-way tie... Kurt On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:56, Mathew Shember <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess the snark wasn't obvious. > > The AV is tolerable as long as you have ePO going. However, my > "enlightenment" happened when there was a fast moving version of sdbot which > snuck by and I had to user higher tiered support. They identified it with > Kaspersky. > > We were going to use ironmail (another company) but decided against it after > hearing the announcement..... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 4:28 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt > > Well, yes, actually, and they are part of Intel, and have been acquiring > companies for themselves - for instance, Secure Computing a few years ago, > for their Sidewinder firewalls (which are now McAfee Secure Enterprise > Firewalls), among others. > > I still don't like their AV product, but they haven't yet ruined the > firewall... > > Kurt > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 15:57, Mathew Shember <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Mcafee is stillll in business? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 02:46 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> >> Subject: The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt >> >> * The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt >> >> Wow, this is actually major security news. I found this on the blog >> from Coretrace, and they said: "This week, McAfee, one of the two >> dominant forces in reactive, blacklist-based endpoint security, >> actively and unequivocally endorsed Application Whitelisting. >> Ironically, in hard coverage of Symantec's recent problems with >> pcAnywhere, the industry is actively recommending application whitelisting >> too." Here is the link: >> http://www.coretraceblogs.com/2012-01/security-earthquake-that-nobody- >> felt-mcafee-endorses-application-whitelisting/ >> >> So, what is the big news? It turns security on its head. Instead of >> keeping bad code out, with application whitelisting (also known as >> Application Control) you only allow known-good code to run. That's >> really a 180, and very, very interesting from a system admin perspective. >> >> I have done some research in this area and have written a whitepaper >> about whitelisting, and why as a system admin you should look into >> this for the near future. This is a new security layer for your >> 'defense-in-depth'. You will hear more from me about whitelisting this year: >> http://www.knowbe4.com/resources/the-endpoint-security-advantages-of-w >> hitelisting-a-whitepaper-for-system-administrators/ >> >> Warm regards, >> >> Stu >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
