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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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  • I spoke to our account manager at Sophos and he said that he believes the new tamper proof settings that will be included in S&C 9.5 will only prevent Sophos from being uninstalled.  I guess I will take a closer look at restricting the services, access to scanner settings, ability to enable/disable device control, etc via the GPO options I've seen discussed here in the forums. 

    The users we have whom are local admins typically only disable the device control mechanism but yes, you are correct when asking, why would someone want to disable something that is protecting your system? - guess that is an age old question.  Unfortunately some of our road warriors and tower crews need the ability to install software from hardware vendors in the wee hours of the morning when they are troubleshooting issues - hence the reason they have local admin rights.  Now granted all of local admin users don't fall under that category.

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  • I spoke to our account manager at Sophos and he said that he believes the new tamper proof settings that will be included in S&C 9.5 will only prevent Sophos from being uninstalled.  I guess I will take a closer look at restricting the services, access to scanner settings, ability to enable/disable device control, etc via the GPO options I've seen discussed here in the forums. 

    The users we have whom are local admins typically only disable the device control mechanism but yes, you are correct when asking, why would someone want to disable something that is protecting your system? - guess that is an age old question.  Unfortunately some of our road warriors and tower crews need the ability to install software from hardware vendors in the wee hours of the morning when they are troubleshooting issues - hence the reason they have local admin rights.  Now granted all of local admin users don't fall under that category.

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