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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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  • Hi,

    This is my problem too. I must give administrative rights for some users on their mobile computer. In this case they can disable sophos services and they able to shut down sophos specific processes via task manager. It is a big problem for me. I hoped the tamper protection will prevent the Sophos client, services, processes from shutdown (like in avast for example) but NOT. I think it is useless until it not possible to prevent the whole client from bad guys.

    question for developers:

    Is it possible to reach this protection level of sophos client in the future?

    Thanks

    :2278
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  • Hi,

    This is my problem too. I must give administrative rights for some users on their mobile computer. In this case they can disable sophos services and they able to shut down sophos specific processes via task manager. It is a big problem for me. I hoped the tamper protection will prevent the Sophos client, services, processes from shutdown (like in avast for example) but NOT. I think it is useless until it not possible to prevent the whole client from bad guys.

    question for developers:

    Is it possible to reach this protection level of sophos client in the future?

    Thanks

    :2278
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