Looking for a corporate AV solution

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Howdy forumites

I'm looking for the a corporate antivirus solution for a medium/small -sized company.

Could you recommend reseller companies I may contact?

I'm not fussy regarding which product I'll look at; Please feel free to recommend solutions.

Requirements:

- Server / workstation protection. Workstations include office-based desktops and notebooks (50% of the notebooks connect remotely via VPN over 3G).
- Must have a central console for management and reporting.
- Will be a bonus if the product includes email spam/content filtering.

What have I forgotten?
 
I've been using ESET for the last four years and is very good.

you get the central console for management and reporting.

You can contact them locally and pay EFT with Invoice issue in SA which is a good thing for taxes. www.eset.co.za
 
We have been happy with Kaspersky Business Space Security for the last couple of years :)

It's cheap and you get a nice discount if you are switching from another AV solution to them as well, crossgrade discount.
Central Management Console. Firewall, AntiSpam, AntiVirus, WebAntiVirus.

It can be a bit "too" secure at times, so we exclude a few things in it too.
 
My personal fav is Kaspersky hands down! I have my personal PC's at home on it as well. Works like a dream for Home and Crop enviroments
 
webtailor said:
I've been using ESET for the last four years and is very good.

you get the central console for management and reporting.

You can contact them locally and pay EFT with Invoice issue in SA which is a good thing for taxes. www.eset.co.za
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+1 for ESET

They have endpoint (Server and workstation) AV and AV+Firewall products and then mail server/file server etc products that are all managed from the same console.

It takes a bit of effort to do the initial setup but after that it is a dream to administrate
 
I have used ESET in the past. As an AV it is great but it doesnt deliver the HIPS services for me that Kaspersky does. But its admin is awesome! Also nice reporting info
 
+1 on Kaspersky I've worked with all the others and Kaspersky beats them hands down.

Just note as tera metioned if not setup correctly it can be a bit restrictive.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

The company currently has TrendMicro Office Scan but I'm contemplating not renewing and going for one of the other solutions, ESET, Kaspersky, AVAST.

Does anyone have experience with regards to managing remote clients i.t.o. signature- and program updates? These clients don't ever visit HO and will need to do their updates via VPN over 3G.

Also, has anyone worked with McAfee lately? I last worked with McAfee (ePO, VirusScan, NetShield) a number of years ago.
 
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FrankyF said:
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

The company currently has TrendMicro Office Scan but I'm contemplating not renewing and going for one of the other solutions, ESET, Kaspersky, AVAST.

Does anyone have experience with regards to managing remote clients i.t.o. signature- and program updates? These clients don't ever visit HO and will need to do their updated via VPN over 3G.

Also, has anyone worked with McAfee lately? I last worked with McAfee (ePO, VirusScan, NetShield) a number of years ago.
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Trend and McAfee = :sick:

Not sure about Kaspersky but Eset you can setup the remote clients to download their updates from your server over VPN or HTTP (If you publish the updates over HTTP to the internet) or straight from the Eset servers or both, if one isn't accessible it fails over to the other.
 
I have seen cases of widespread infections on a network running NOD/ESET. It isn't perfect.

The product that left the best impression with me was Sophos, but it is one of the more expensive options.
 
Our company specialise in Sophos and Panda, but have recently looked into Total Defense as an MSP solution. We only do cloud-based AV's so we ignore the standard variants. Total Defense however as an managed service is quite comprehensive as an cloud-based endpoint, web and mail security.
 
abandonallhope said:
I have seen cases of widespread infections on a network running NOD/ESET. It isn't perfect.

The product that left the best impression with me was Sophos, but it is one of the more expensive options.
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+1, best AV I've ever used... Besides it being a bit of a resource hog it's absolutely perfect, been running it for over 5 years and never had a single virus/trojan/malware/anything on home or work pc's.
 
FrankyF said:
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

The company currently has TrendMicro Office Scan but I'm contemplating not renewing and going for one of the other solutions, ESET, Kaspersky, AVAST.

Does anyone have experience with regards to managing remote clients i.t.o. signature- and program updates? These clients don't ever visit HO and will need to do their updates via VPN over 3G.

Also, has anyone worked with McAfee lately? I last worked with McAfee (ePO, VirusScan, NetShield) a number of years ago.
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You've basically got an Administration Server in Kaspersky's Security Center, so that can be your update source (hence, update through VPN) or your secondary update source could be Kaspersky Servers (3G, ADSL or any other internet connection).

If you choose to go for Kaspersky I would suggest that you download everything from their website and install it that way. The installation media provided is extremely outdated most of the time.
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
+1, best AV I've ever used... Besides it being a bit of a resource hog it's absolutely perfect, been running it for over 5 years and never had a single virus/trojan/malware/anything on home or work pc's.
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The latest variant is by no means a resource hog, quite light actually, you should move over to Sophos cloud.
 
|tera| said:
You've basically got an Administration Server in Kaspersky's Security Center, so that can be your update source (hence, update through VPN) or your secondary update source could be Kaspersky Servers (3G, ADSL or any other internet connection).

If you choose to go for Kaspersky I would suggest that you download everything from their website and install it that way. The installation media provided is extremely outdated most of the time.
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You can also configure one of the PCs or servers in the remote office to be an update agent. So it will download the Updates from wherever you specified and then the other clients will update from the PC that is the update agent.
 
TheGuy said:
You can also configure one of the PCs or servers in the remote office to be an update agent. So it will download the Updates from wherever you specified and then the other clients will update from the PC that is the update agent.
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No remote servers or offices unfortunately, the remote staff work from home. Therefore they'll either have to update from the management server in HO, or directly from the web.

I'd prefer if all clients updated from the management server, in case we would like to stop updating for a while (corrupt signature, a new threat included in the updates that blocks legitimate software on my clients, or something similar).
 
FrankyF said:
No remote servers or offices unfortunately, the remote staff work from home. Therefore they'll either have to update from the management server in HO, or directly from the web.

I'd prefer if all clients updated from the management server, in case we would like to stop updating for a while (corrupt signature, a new threat included in the updates that blocks legitimate software on my clients, or something similar).
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How many client are going to be working remotely?
 
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