I like Sophos and Panda.

On May 11, 2010, at 3:14 PM, xgermx wrote:

> Thanks for all of the replies. If anyone else has info, feel free to share.
> 
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Pommerening, Jeremy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I was having an issue with Sophos not catching Fake-AV too until I turned on 
>> HIPS.  I'm catching most of it now with HIPS.  Environment is approx 1000 
>> nodes.  I will agree that the online database is slim but I'm much happier 
>> than when we used Symantec EP.  As a bonus Sophos includes a lot of 
>> functionality at no extra cost with Data Control (DLP) and Device Control.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Jeremy Pommerening
>> MGR, Information Security
>> Symbion, Inc.
>> 615-234-8912 Direct
>> 615-429-6883 BB
>> 
>> GIAC - GCFA,GPEN, GAWN & GCFW,
>> GIAC Advisory Board Member
>> MCSE Win2K, MCSE NT4,
>> CompTia SERVER+, HP APS
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Little
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 12:15 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Corporate AV suggestions
>> 
>> I'm on the fence regarding our Sophos EP distribution. I have a feeling
>> that it is a little less resource intensive on the clients than the
>> Symantec 10 system we replaced, but not by a whole lot. Logging and
>> reporting isn't that strong, especially if you are looking at offloading
>> events to a SIM or centralized log collector. Their online database of
>> threats is very slim on information, especially when compared with
>> Symantec's offering at http://www.sarc.com . It also doesn't deal very
>> well with fast morphing threats like the rash of fake security products
>> that have blown up in the last year. Almost all of the incidents I
>> respond to are fake AV crap. The management console is still fairly
>> nice, beyond being weak with reporting. One strong point is deployment -
>> it was very easy to deploy out using SMS.
>> 
>> Hope that helps...
>> 
>> ZT
>> 
>> On 5/11/2010 9:42 AM, Pommerening, Jeremy wrote:
>>> I've been very pleased with Sophos Endpoint protection both from a pricing 
>>> perspective and support perspective.
>>> 
>>> Jeremy Pommerening
>>> MGR, Information Security
>>> Symbion, Inc.
>>> 615-234-8912 Direct
>>> 615-429-6883 BB
>>> 
>>> GIAC - GCFA,GPEN, GAWN & GCFW,
>>> GIAC Advisory Board Member
>>> MCSE Win2K, MCSE NT4,
>>> CompTia SERVER+, HP APS
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] 
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of xgermx
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:33 AM
>>> To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List
>>> Subject: [Pauldotcom] Corporate AV suggestions
>>> 
>>> 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).
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