Andrew

Having been through a few L1 Svc Provider audits myself I can tell you that
the more that you to the absolute letter of "the law" the better.  We went
back and forth with their QA group on a variety of things that the following
year I just said "ok, you want to be silly but that's how I'll pass?  Fine."
Is that the best practices?  No.. But the order from $work was
$payment_product  must be compliant...WE put Sophos on all of the Linux
boxen.

-rd



> From: Andrew Prowant <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:37:12 -0400
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] PCI-DSS Compliance VS Virus Scanners on Unix/Linux
>
> On 4/25/10 11:22 PM, Tracy Reed wrote:
>> This is a small requirement of the standard but major operational pain
>> in the butt. Daily updates (at least) is the standard for antivirus
>> definitions these days. Can you imagine somehow ferrying virus
>> definition files into your private network which has no direct
>> Internet access because PCI says your AIX machine needs antivirus? Who
>> is going to sell you antivirus for AIX anyway?
>>
> While PCI may not specifically say that it requires anti-virus on
> platform X, Y, or Z it is up to the QSA to make the final decision. The
> QSA used at my previous company required without question that all
> in-scope servers be running some form of anti-virus. Using a weekly
> ClamAV scan was acceptable in this case. One server was configured to
> download the updates and all in-scope servers downloaded updates from it.
>
> At my new $WORK, we are preparing for a Level 1 Service Provider audit
> and thus have decided to install ClamAV everywhere in-scope. While most
> know it is a complete waste of time, it should be one less thing that
> needs done during remediation.
>
> F-Prot sells antivirus for AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.  I'm not
> sure how good it is but that was not your question. :-)
> http://www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/
>
>
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