Comments on: New Section – Share Your Opinion #1 – Antivirus and Endpoint Protection http://www.myinfosecjob.com/2011/08/new-section-share-your-opinion-1-antivirus-and-endpoint-protection/ Your reliable source for Information Security - Risk Management - Compliance jobs around the world Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:04:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: James R. Marcus http://www.myinfosecjob.com/2011/08/new-section-share-your-opinion-1-antivirus-and-endpoint-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-5417 James R. Marcus Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:37:15 +0000 http://www.myinfosecjob.com/?p=8563#comment-5417 Lots of interesting opinions here. I'm pretty shocked at how many people are still using Symantec. For the years I used Symantec I was surprised how much got through,and I felt their support sucked. I have also used TrendMicro. But my favorite is McAfee EPO/AV. It didn't kill performance on my machines, and although it was definitely an enterprise product I didn't feel that it was over-bloated. Definitely takes some effort to learn. I use it in a PCI-DSS Level 1 Service Provider environment. Lots of interesting opinions here. I’m pretty shocked at how many people are still using Symantec. For the years I used Symantec I was surprised how much got through,and I felt their support sucked. I have also used TrendMicro. But my favorite is McAfee EPO/AV. It didn’t kill performance on my machines, and although it was definitely an enterprise product I didn’t feel that it was over-bloated. Definitely takes some effort to learn. I use it in a PCI-DSS Level 1 Service Provider environment.

]]> By: Fernando Bacchin http://www.myinfosecjob.com/2011/08/new-section-share-your-opinion-1-antivirus-and-endpoint-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-5331 Fernando Bacchin Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:24:29 +0000 http://www.myinfosecjob.com/?p=8563#comment-5331 My company uses Symantec AV solution since version 7. I'm in charge of it's operation since version 10 , have done the rollout to SEP11 and now preparing to 12. I've worked with CA and McAfee software before and would say that their security level (in terms of signature-based protection) are pretty much the same. Symantec support seems to be better and buying their premium or BCS support doesn't change too much. I agreed with you regarding version-changing, Symantec does it with such a frequency that I hate it ! Symantec software is also a memory/cpu eater, but that's something your end-user will get used to after a while. In general, I believe there's a reason for a company to be #1 and when you have to decide which way to go for a huge environment you cannot assume the risk of choosing such a beginner company as Sunbelt . They may be the best on performance but they do not have (yet) a structure to support a global company with thousand endpoints. And this is something you must consider when making a decision for your business. My opinion. My company uses Symantec AV solution since version 7. I’m in charge of it’s operation since version 10 , have done the rollout to SEP11 and now preparing to 12.

I’ve worked with CA and McAfee software before and would say that their security level (in terms of signature-based protection) are pretty much the same. Symantec support seems to be better and buying their premium or BCS support doesn’t change too much.
I agreed with you regarding version-changing, Symantec does it with such a frequency that I hate it !

Symantec software is also a memory/cpu eater, but that’s something your end-user will get used to after a while.

In general, I believe there’s a reason for a company to be #1 and when you have to decide which way to go for a huge environment you cannot assume the risk of choosing such a beginner company as Sunbelt .

They may be the best on performance but they do not have (yet) a structure to support a global company with thousand endpoints. And this is something you must consider when making a decision for your business.

My opinion.

]]> By: Fernando Bacchin http://www.myinfosecjob.com/2011/08/new-section-share-your-opinion-1-antivirus-and-endpoint-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-5330 Fernando Bacchin Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:20:09 +0000 http://www.myinfosecjob.com/?p=8563#comment-5330 My company uses Symantec AV solution since version 7. I'm in charge of it's operation since version 10 , have done the rollout to SEP11 and now preparing to 12. I've worked with CA and MacAfee software before and would say that their security level (in terms of signature-based protection) are pretty much the same. Symantec support seems to be better and buying their premium or BCS support doesn't change too much. I agreed with you regarding version-changing, Symantec does it with such a frequency that I hate it ! Symantec software is also a memory/cpu eater, but that's something your end-user will get used to after a while. In general, I believe there's a reason for a company to be #1 and when you have to decide a solution for huge environments you cannot assume the risk to choice such a beginner company as Sunbelt . They may be the best on performance but they do not have (yet) a structure to support a global company with thousand endpoints. And this is something you must consider when making a decision for your business. My opinion. My company uses Symantec AV solution since version 7. I’m in charge of it’s operation since version 10 , have done the rollout to SEP11 and now preparing to 12.

I’ve worked with CA and MacAfee software before and would say that their security level (in terms of signature-based protection) are pretty much the same. Symantec support seems to be better and buying their premium or BCS support doesn’t change too much.

I agreed with you regarding version-changing, Symantec does it with such a frequency that I hate it !

Symantec software is also a memory/cpu eater, but that’s something your end-user will get used to after a while.

In general, I believe there’s a reason for a company to be #1 and when you have to decide a solution for huge environments you cannot assume the risk to choice such a beginner company as Sunbelt .

They may be the best on performance but they do not have (yet) a structure to support a global company with thousand endpoints. And this is something you must consider when making a decision for your business.

My opinion.

]]> By: Naveen Sharma http://www.myinfosecjob.com/2011/08/new-section-share-your-opinion-1-antivirus-and-endpoint-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-5032 Naveen Sharma Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:37:45 +0000 http://www.myinfosecjob.com/?p=8563#comment-5032 Hi, I have never come across VIPRE in the enterprise environments but will be interesting to see the managemet support tools and vendor support. Sopos is yet another promising product. Irrepective you the product, Software whitelisting is another tools avilable which has management capability via group policies. Regards Naveen Hi,

I have never come across VIPRE in the enterprise environments but will be interesting to see the managemet support tools and vendor support.

Sopos is yet another promising product. Irrepective you the product, Software whitelisting is another tools avilable which has management capability via group policies.

Regards

Naveen

]]> By: Gregory Powell http://www.myinfosecjob.com/2011/08/new-section-share-your-opinion-1-antivirus-and-endpoint-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-2899 Gregory Powell Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:37:31 +0000 http://www.myinfosecjob.com/?p=8563#comment-2899 I have used all kinds of AV solutions over the decades of experience that I have -- and over the last several years, I have firmly dispensed with both symantec and McAfee for similar reasons. These programs are HUGE, over-bloated resource hogs and absolutely kill performance on the systems they reside upon. About 2 years ago, I ran tests personally on about 10-12 different AV packages to test them for performance, ability to eliminate threats, etc. While many were good, the one that came out on the top for me is VIPRE -- it is an amazing product and does an exceptional job of keeping your resources available for the USER instead of hogging it all for itself to run. I have deployed VIPRE to my clients and they have been SO happy to get rid of McAfee and Symantec (both of which I used to resell) and the performance impovement they had was so significant that they felt they had new servers and workstations. Anyway, that's my 2 cents...for what it's worth... Gregory Powell CISSP, MCSE, MCP+I, CompTIA A+, Security+, Network+ I have used all kinds of AV solutions over the decades of experience that I have — and over the last several years, I have firmly dispensed with both symantec and McAfee for similar reasons. These programs are HUGE, over-bloated resource hogs and absolutely kill performance on the systems they reside upon.

About 2 years ago, I ran tests personally on about 10-12 different AV packages to test them for performance, ability to eliminate threats, etc. While many were good, the one that came out on the top for me is VIPRE — it is an amazing product and does an exceptional job of keeping your resources available for the USER instead of hogging it all for itself to run.

I have deployed VIPRE to my clients and they have been SO happy to get rid of McAfee and Symantec (both of which I used to resell) and the performance impovement they had was so significant that they felt they had new servers and workstations.

Anyway, that’s my 2 cents…for what it’s worth…

Gregory Powell
CISSP, MCSE, MCP+I,
CompTIA A+, Security+, Network+

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