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SESC 9 vs other AV products

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What are your views of Sophos and SESC9?

It has been a while since I've used any other vendor. I hope to see some responses covering what others feel, like those that just come to Sophos recently as well as those like myself that use Sophos.

Back ground:

We have been using Sophos for over 3 years now and I'm pleased over all with this product. We used to be a Symantec shop and saw enough issues to move on.

Thanks

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    Perhaps writing a response on what your experience was like with other products is to time consuming.

    Let us try this:

    Do you like Sophos and feel it is meeting your needs?

    yes or no

    My answer is yes

    Thanks 

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    It can be a real pain to evoke a reaction on some topics :smileywink:

    What I've said in still stands. I definitely like Sophos - the "whole" (as "product" is not only the software). I think that the issues are properly addressed, support is very good (although there's still room for improvement) and it also has an appealing "corporate culture". 

    Christian

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    Thank you.

    After reading your earlier post the other vendors seem the same in 2010 as they were in 2006.

    Product upgrades and patches:

    In 2006 McAfee's design was very complex for doing upgrades and patches of endpoints and Symantec required one to do it manually or use another solution out side their product.

    Sophos has been great is getting the endpoints upgraded and patched smoothly for the past 4 years. I keep informing the users I support that with Sophos you install it once and then just support it.

    What do others think of Sophos' product endpoint upgrade and patch process?

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    I walked into my current company while it was using CA Etrust antvirus and pest patrol.  Utter rubbish!!!   Complicated to setup, even harder to monitor and roll out to clients.  Oh and did I mention it never actually detected anything.

    With this in mind I sing Sophos praises very highly.  Within weeks of installing Sophos we had detected hundreds of viruses including conficker and were able to deal with them and prove to the MD that the investment was worth it.

    Sure there are other products and what is great for one scenario may not work for another.  For us Sophos is not "perfect" but it has proved to be a good investment and the support from Sophos is as valuble as the software itself.

    For those looking to choose a new product make sure you do your homework and get some feedback from their customers. We did and it porvided a great insight into the struggles people have with some of the other products available.

    Just my thoughts

    Stuart

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    Nice

    Here is more information from my 3 years with Sophos:


    Bad:

    False positive:

    There was one wide spread false positive over the past three years. It occurred last December 2009 and was automatically resolved without reported harm within 3 hours.

    Performance issue in Windows desktops:

    The deployment of Sophos in 2006 had one design short coming which took a few months to learn about. The Sophos update design had endpoints update when a network connection was detected. This caused a performance issue on Window desktops that had limited resources. The result was a slower Windows desktop boot up. This is being addressed now by increasing the number of Sophos update servers from 2 to 4.

    Good:

    Sophos product server upgrades:

    There have been three full Sophos product server upgrades and all were resolved using standard Sophos support with no impact to endpoints.

    Endpoint full version upgrades:

    There has been one full version upgrade to endpoints over the past 3 years and it was done automatically with no large scale manual action required.

    Monthly Sophos upgrades and patches:

    There have been over 22,400 endpoints installed and all monthly patches and upgrades have been smoothly achieved.

    Sophos endpoint protection:

    Sophos was deployed with a focus on virus and spyware protection in 2006, over the past 3 years no wide spread attacks appeared across the Enterprise like was seen when Symantec was used. Sophos also provided clean up through its product for most infections reported.

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    We're running Sophos for about.... think, we really didn't use any other product cause Sophos covers all belongings very well. Sure, as I am the responsible admin I did have a look at other products (over at colleagues doing the same job), even tried other products in demo-|testing-environment.

    Maybe I'm too much used to the easyness of roll-out process und keeping machines up to date so I didn't spend too much time testing other products. Guess, there's still room for improvement on some features but hey, it's the same with all vendors|products.

    Cheers,
    Joshua

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    Thank you for the feed back. Today 4-27-10 there have been over 800 viewers to my post. I will take this information along with the few replies to mean Sophos is great.

    I'll close this post.

    Thanks

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