Phil makes a good point, specifically regarding defense in depth. If you're relying on the same engine/dats, it doesn't matter how many gateways or levels of software protection you have. We made the same mistake here when management decided a certain vendors total protection suite was a good idea and proceded to implement their respective software/gateways. It wasn't a big deal until we realized our hosted AV/Spam solution also relied on the same engine/dats. As a result, new gateways are on the way...
- Sean On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Phil Brutsche <[email protected]> wrote: > I have 2 thoughts on the matter: > > a) I'm sure you're familiar with the saying "devil you know vs the devil > you don't". You know the GFI product works. Your other options are > unknown quantities. > > b) Consider defense in depth. These days most anti-spam implementations > also include anti-virus. If you use the same scanning engine on your > desktop as well as the inbound mail path, and the mail antivirus misses > some piece of malware... > > On 5/4/2010 12:19 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > We recently replaced our AV (McAfee) with Trend for both clients and > > Exchange 2007 (sorry Sunbelt – we came REALLY close to choosing VIPRE). > > We did not purchase the spam filtering option with Trend ScanMail, but > > are now considering it. We’ve been running GFI MailEssentials for years > > on a dedicated box. We’re protecting between 400 and 500 mailboxes. > > > > The price for GFI continues to be attractive, so much so that hosted > > solutions don’t seem to be worth the cost differential… The first > > logical option to me would be to move toward Trend, but I’m not so sure > > that adding spam filtering at the Exchange Server level is a good idea > > from a resource perspective. We were there at one point years ago, with > > GFI and ended up moving off to a dedicated box, because GFI was eating > > up too many resources (we were getting HAMMERED with spam – million a > > month, easily). > > > > Has anyone on this list moved away from GFI to something else? If so, > > what did you move to and what was your reasoning? > > > > I welcome any and all thoughts/suggestions/experiences. > > -- > > Phil Brutsche > [email protected] > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
