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Comparing the Effectiveness and Performance of Endpoint Protection for Virtual Environments
dschrader | 06 Jul 2011 | 1 comment

 

This week, Symantec started shipping Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 - an endpoint security solution optimized for use in virtual environments.  Trend Micro and McAfee are also shipping security products for virtual environments. 3 different companies, 4 different solutions (Trend is shipping both Deep Security Agentless Protection and OfficeScan with a plug-in) – what’s the difference?

We were curious about the performance and effectiveness of competitive solutions – so we tested them.  The results were surprising.

Reports Discussed:

Dennis Labs - Virtual desktop malware defence, April 2011

Tolly Enterprises - Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 vs. McAfee and Trend Micro, Anti-virus Performance in VMware ESX Virtual Environments, June 2011...

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Configuring SEP 12.1 in Virtual Environments
dschrader | 06 Jun 2011 | 20 comments

 

This week Symantec introduced the concept of V-Ray – tools that provide visibility into virtual environments.  SEP itself has been enhanced to seamlessly support virtualization.  Today’s blog is a checklist for configuring Symantec Endpoint Protection to play nicely in a virtual space.  Optimizing a new product is a work in progress, so if you have suggestions on addition steps/settings to better allow SEP to run in VDI, let me know.  (My thanks to Anthony Flaviani for much of this material).

1.       Ensure that Insight is enabled. 

Insight determines a file's security rating by examining the following characteristics of the file and its context:

•      The source of the file

•      How new the file is

•      How common the file is in the community

•  ...

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