Fortunately or unfortunately, I've worked with almost every product that's been
discussed so far: here are my thoughts:
1. Nod32 probably has the best client piece of all 3...Very lightweight and
not resource intensive at all. We had full system scans running while playing
WoW with no performance impact! I never was a fan of the centralized management
in larger environments though. Having to define mirror servers, manage client
passwords, policy, etc. was always a little bit clunky when you got over 100
machines IMO.
2. Agree with the post about Trend. One of their client release really
required a lot of horsepower to run. Also they seemed to go through a period
of missing some really big threats. They do have a terrific management console
and their entire product suite integrates together really nicely.
3. We are running Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 and I've done deployments
other places as well. It does a nice job mitigating threats and has some great
host based IPS features. The pricing can be steep, but you also get a lot of
extras like vulnerability scanners and integration with full disk encryption
solutions. Lately though, the last few updates (RU5 and RU6) have had some odd
issues with breaking things on client machines. We've seen a higher than
normal issue rate in these last few upgrades. Also, doing large scale
deployments to unmanaged machines can be a little clunky from the console.
Using a 3rd party package to distribute an MSI to your clients works a whole
lot better.
Hope this helps! Looking forward to hearing other people's thoughts!
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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:32 AM, xgermx
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So, it's license renewal time for our A/V and I'm open for
suggestions/recommendations/horror stories. (I'll be covering roughly
500 Windows based machines).
I would be interested in seeing the responses to this question. I will be in
the same position in a few months.
Currently we are using Symantec but are still on v10.1. I've heard more good
than bad about v11 but no personal experience with it myself. We have been
happy with the Symantec product. It has been easy to roll out and administer
and catches the majority of bad stuff that I would expect it to.
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