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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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  • Hello froggy,

    anyone who is a local admin

    these anyones are able to do a lot more than just alter AV protection and if anyone could qualify as local admin you have a lot of other requirements to worry about, not just AV.

    Incidentally - and quite interesting - the standard is rather vague or even incomplete w/r to other aspects. It requires that the anti-virus software is actively running but otherwise enumerates only that [t]he anti-virus software and definitions are current and [p]eriodic scans are performed as specific requirements. Something like real-time or on-access isn't mentioned (or hinted at) at all. In this context I don't think that by users encompasses local admins ...  

    Christian

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  • Hello froggy,

    anyone who is a local admin

    these anyones are able to do a lot more than just alter AV protection and if anyone could qualify as local admin you have a lot of other requirements to worry about, not just AV.

    Incidentally - and quite interesting - the standard is rather vague or even incomplete w/r to other aspects. It requires that the anti-virus software is actively running but otherwise enumerates only that [t]he anti-virus software and definitions are current and [p]eriodic scans are performed as specific requirements. Something like real-time or on-access isn't mentioned (or hinted at) at all. In this context I don't think that by users encompasses local admins ...  

    Christian

    :55136
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