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Option to prevent tampering with Sophos services and settings

Hello Folks -

We just recently implemented Sophos S&C 9.0 for our end-users.  The product works great but we are looking for some sort of mechanism to prevent our limited number of users who are also local administrators on their laptops from stopping the Sophos services.  I know with other vendors products that regardless of whether the user is an admin or not they still provided some sort of setting(s) that would prevent the users from doing so.

I do realize (and I saw this on other posts in this forum) that it doesn't go along with "safe computing practices" but in some companies (i.e. telecoms) it is often at times cumbersome to lock down certain departments (RF engineers, field crews, etc) especially when these departments are in direct contact with vendors, etc.  I can restrict with a Group Policy the "Install with Elevated Privilges" settings but many applications are hard coded to require an administrator installing the software.

I saw that Sophos Professional Services can assist with this type of configuration but in my honest opinion this is something that should be included in an enterprise class endpoint solution.  I also may be searching on the wrong keywords so if there is an article / suggestion on how to accomplish this please steer me in the correct direction.

Thanks!

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  • What's in the works right now might not be what you need. You said some sort of mechanism to prevent our [...] local administrators [...] from stopping the Sophos services. Are you talking about using the GUI to disable certain functions or about stopping or disabling a service? Preventing the latter is not part of the Tamper Protection AFAIK.

    In addition to Tamper Protection you can deny local administrators the right to stop a service and thus make it harder for them to turn off scanning. And you'd also have to restrict access to the registry. A kernel mode filter driver also would make it harder but not impossible to turn off scanning (as MS has articles on it).

    The question is always: Why do they want to turn off scanning (or other components)?

    Christian

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  • What's in the works right now might not be what you need. You said some sort of mechanism to prevent our [...] local administrators [...] from stopping the Sophos services. Are you talking about using the GUI to disable certain functions or about stopping or disabling a service? Preventing the latter is not part of the Tamper Protection AFAIK.

    In addition to Tamper Protection you can deny local administrators the right to stop a service and thus make it harder for them to turn off scanning. And you'd also have to restrict access to the registry. A kernel mode filter driver also would make it harder but not impossible to turn off scanning (as MS has articles on it).

    The question is always: Why do they want to turn off scanning (or other components)?

    Christian

    :2134
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