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Making Your Business Secure. Denis Finnegan TescoDiets.com. What we will be covering. Recent report from the ISSA on Virus related damage to Irish Business Understanding the Virus Problem and it’s Changing Nature.
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Making Your Business Secure Denis Finnegan TescoDiets.com
What we will be covering • Recent report from the ISSA on Virus related damage to Irish Business • Understanding the Virus Problem and it’s Changing Nature. • TescoDiets case study on our own issues and the migration to the Sophos Antivirus Product. • The Problems with our existing Product. • Choosing the most Suitable Product for TescoDiets. • The Actual Deployment, Technical Issues, etc…
Irish Cyber Crime Survey 2006 Information Systems Security Association University College Dublin • Targeted 135 Medium to Large Private and Public organisations. • 86% of Irish Business affected by Cyber Crime in some form this year alone with that figure Rising to 98% overall • 22% reporting over €100,000 in Costs • 39% say they had suffered Financial Fraud with 19.5% having experienced this in the last year and 36.6% had Intellectual Property stolen with half that figure occurring in the last Year. • “If that was arson or theft, you’d take it very seriously indeed” Minister McDowell Launching the Report.
The New Viral Generation • Worms & Viruses • Boot Viruses • Macro Viruses • Email & Program Virus • Malware • Ad ware – Browser Hijackers • Spyware – P2P • Trojan Horses • Miscellaneous Security • Bots, Key loggers, Dialer etc
Antivirus and End Point Security • Anti-Virus • Anti-Malware • Firewall • Remote Login • Backdoors • Hijacking • PUA’s • Potentially Unwanted Apps
Reasons for Change • PC Performance problems running existing Antivirus Client • Unsatisfactory Vendor Support • Difficult and unintuitive Interfaces • Decentralised, Centralised Management System • Time Consuming and difficult to configure
Why did we Choose Sophos? • Requirements • Ease of installation and Management • Complete protection • Reasonably Priced • Three Antivirus Products • McAfee • Sophos • Symantec
TescoDiets Rollout • Installed the Product • Setup EM Library and Scheduled the Library updates. • Opened the Management Console and searched for Computers. • Configured some policies and installed the Antivirus to all machines. • And.. Had a coffee break..
Issues a long the way • Uninstall of Symantec • Biggest and most time consuming problem. • Windows Firewall Issue • Occurs with any remote installation with F/W on. • System Resources • When Aggressive Policy deployed on Low Spec machines however, • Easily Remedied from the Management Console
Ease of Installation and Intuitive UI Information at your fingertips Instant End Point Status Remote Problem Resolution Simple Policy Creation Machine History Application Control Simple and Straight Forward Reporting Application Self Updating Features that Impressed me!
Bottom Line • Save on Costs with Sophos due to competitive pricing • Save Time by • Saving IT Management & Resolution Time • By Protecting from PUAs, removing potential future problems • Increases Productivity • Less disturbance to end users for resolutions • Saves time on client upgrades as clients update themselves. • Removing programs and applications that slow down PC perf. • Reduce strain on Resources • Removing Applications that drain network resources and bandwidth • Peace of Mind • Knowing that all the bases are covered
Conclusion • Combining Effectiveness at Blocking and removing a Virus & Malware with straight forward installation and Management and an informative dashboard, Sophos End Point Security is ideal for business looking to ensure they are protected while reducing the amount of time they spend managing that protection
References • ISSA Survey • http://www.issaireland.org/cybercrime • Independent Product Analysis - Cascadia Labs • http://www.cascadialabs.com • Vendor - Sophos • http://www.Sophos.com • Reseller - Renaissance • http://www.Renaissance.com • Local Provider – Qualcom • http://www.Qualcom.ie