Jon’s Network

eEye had a good story to tell on their webinar this morning. It looks like Blink is their flagship product that professes to be the ultimate desktop security client. It is quite compelling. The hard drive on my Windows box got fried a couple of weeks ago, and Dell hasn’t responded to my [...]

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Matt Hines of eWeek did a good write-up on Sophos  yesterday.  It’s good to see Sophos get this kind of attention.

"Sophos claims to have increased its business in North America by 50 percent during its fiscal 2006, which will end in March 2007, and company officials say that almost 100 percent of those deals involved the replacement [...]

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Anti-Virus software is a necessary investment and it’s important to make sure you maximize your return regardless of which solution you choose to run.  There are many criteria for an enterprise endpoint security solution. Here are a few:

1. Does it have proactive virus detection technology to combat zero-day threats?

2. Does it centrally manage and update [...]

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Sophos goes beyond traditional anti-virus and incorporates anti-spyware, anti-adware, HIPS (they call it Behavioral Genotype Protection) and client firewall (optional).  It can all be centrally managed from a console and is included with the product subscription.  They have an optional feature called Application Control that allows you to block legitimate applications that might hog your [...]

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