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Interesting article

fadi

I was looking for some information about sophos enpoint vs Symantec endpoint since im currently looking to shift away our users from Symantec to different product, i found this article:

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/2240039273/Sophos-software-design-implementation-critically-flawed-says-researcher?asrc=EM_NLN_14587207&track=NL-102&ad=843744HOUSE&

which made me think again about sophos endpoint, how sophos is addressing the issues mentioned in this article?

Thanks, Best regards,

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    Hi,

    Not sure if you've seen this:

    http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/113974.html
    which essentially links to:

    http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/05/tavis-ormandy-and-sophos/

    which appears to be the main source of info.

    Regards,
    Jak 

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      I would say that is a good response from Graham , lets hope that improvement would be in progress and not like many other security vendors which they  just throw promises and sleep on it.

      Thanks Jak for the respond,

      Best regards,

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        I read somewhere that The University of Arizona purchased an unlimited site license for Sophos Enpoint Security and Control software.  It's to provide protection for the University of Arizona  through next year.  Good sign of a good prod uct.  Big plus for Sophos.

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          Well, the proof will be in the pudding, as they say. Whether the product can live up to Graham's response or not should be reflected in the amount of complaints that either develop or don't develop as a result of the issues brought up. Let's hope, for all parties concerned, it's the latter.

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            Very interesting article indeed!

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              yes, its interesting and enjoyable to read

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                This also i just saw it before yesterday.

                It is in July 2011.

                http://www.passmark.com/ftp/Endpoint%20Protection%202011%20-%20Performance%20Testing%20-%20Enterprise%20-%20Report%203.pdf#search=%22symantec%22

                Well i already shiftted all our users to Sophos, so we will find it out ourselves if the test is accurate or no ;)

                Best regards,

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                  Not that interesting, but still informative!!!

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                    Those are some really helpful articles.

                    I'm still in the process of deciding what system to go with (can you tell which way I'm leaning based on which forum I'm joined?).

                    Are you just searching for these articles or do you get them sent to you by someone/a service?

                    -Gio

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                      I would have to say, that I registered to many security developer forums and searched for many analysis to get decided on what solution I will go with, but at the end the most thing which made me decide is that our sister company in the UK being using the Sophos for few years and they are quite happy about it.

                      I used Eset for 5 years but after version 3 they become concentrating on adding features instead of improving their detection system which become by time just a service running which dont detect many of the malwares and trojan, so I looked hard for another solution last year and then decided to go with Symantec endpoint (which was a big mistake) I didnt see anything like this software, nitemare in implementation, their console full of features which don't work. system detection is bad; for example we use pop3 for mails. and when someone send email to more than 10 users at the time, endpoint block the connection becouse it cannot scan temp file since it is locked, the support suggestion is to disable outlook protection!!.

                      So I decided to look again and then I discussed Sophos with my college in UK and after reading the on the net, i decided to give it a try, and here we are, we have some problems with it but the support are great and very helpful.

                      By the way after i installed Sophos endpoing with the firewall and data control, my computer performance increased 2 times atleast compare to when it was running symantec endpoint 11.0.7. so it is better to try it out before you decide, not all the environments the same, so maybe the last performance test above wont be same for you.

                      Best regards.

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