Re: Centrally managed antivirus

We're a large company (1000+ servers, 20000+ workstations/laptops) so this
answer might not fit your needs. We use McAfee's anti-virus & anti-spyware
which we centrally administer via their ePO console. We use however many
licenses we need and "true up" annually when we renew maintenance so we
don't have to worry about buying licenses one or 5 at a time. Just count
them once a year.

ePO does more than manage AV/AS. It also serves as the management console
for McAfee's Data Loss Prevention and hard drive encryption products.
Within ePO we can get a unified view of the posture of an endpoint within a
single application, which is nice. And their endpoint agent serves as the
single connection point to push down software and policy updates as well as
pull back endpoint status messages.

You can use ePO to retrieve signature updates from McAfee & then either push
them out or let the endpoints pull them from ePO. Or the endpoints can
still pull signatures from McAfee directly.

ePO integrates with Active Directory for both users & systems. You can also
have defined roles with scoped access so you can let support desk people
have access to push updates but not have access to update policies.

It uses SQL Server for the back-end database and has no problems running on
a VM if you don't want to dedicate server hardware to it.

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

All,

We're a small company (@20 PCs and servers) and are currently using
Symantec
Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition for our AV protection. It is
protecting us well and saves me a lot of admin time, but I'm looking for
something different.

The reason is Symantec is a PITA to deal with. 1) You have to buy at least
5 licenses at a time when we'd like to buy 1 at a time, and 2) When you do
buy new licenses, you can't prorate them such that all licenses are renewed
at the same time.

What are the rest of you using for this? I'm sure there have to be others
with central admin.

Thanks.


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Jeff Crosby
VP Information Systems
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.
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