SESC 9 vs other AV products

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.

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.