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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,

    [this feature] truly makes a solution tamperproof

    said who? :smileyhappy: Give any ordinary pen-tester local admin rights and watch how long the solution holds out. Some malware uses an equivalent "self-protection" scheme - if it were bullet-proof we'd see it being used more widely.

    detecting [...] via the management console

    Regardless of the product this requires an uncompromised communication channel - otherwise you can't trust the information from the endpoint. "Simple" tampering will show the endpoint as non-compliant with the AV policy but there's no frequent heartbeat which would enable you to detect a deactivated communication. 

    Christian

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  • Hello froggy,

    [this feature] truly makes a solution tamperproof

    said who? :smileyhappy: Give any ordinary pen-tester local admin rights and watch how long the solution holds out. Some malware uses an equivalent "self-protection" scheme - if it were bullet-proof we'd see it being used more widely.

    detecting [...] via the management console

    Regardless of the product this requires an uncompromised communication channel - otherwise you can't trust the information from the endpoint. "Simple" tampering will show the endpoint as non-compliant with the AV policy but there's no frequent heartbeat which would enable you to detect a deactivated communication. 

    Christian

    :55140
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