Re: [Fed-Talk] SAV 11 for Mac??
Re: [Fed-Talk] SAV 11 for Mac??
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] SAV 11 for Mac??
- From: Allan Marcus <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:13:32 -0600
NAV 11 is the consumer version.
SAV 10 is the corporate version.
They use the same DAT files.
There is a console for central management. It does require Mac OS X
Server and it the SAV console is fairly utilitarian. You can set up a
SAV LiveUpdate server behind your firewall and all you need is a web
server (this is what we do). The SAV console comes with some command-
line scripts to keep your LiveUpdate server up to date.
IMHO, SAV is not a great tool, but it does work and meets the NIST
800-53 requirement for anti-virus. SEP 11 (Symantec Endpoint
Protection) is out on Windows and includes NAC, Host integrity
checking, and anti virus. There is talk of a Mac version, but it seems
to just be talk for now. Our Symantec rep tells us that the Mac
version should be ready by the end of the year, but I am very doubtful
of that.
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Thank you,
Allan Marcus
Solutions Architect
Central Software and Development Team (CSD)
Departmental Computing Group (CTN-1)
Computing, Telecommunications, and Networking (CTN) Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
505-667-5666
email@hidden
On Sep 26, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Nichols, Jared wrote:
Hi-
There's rumblings here that we're going to be ditching McAfee for
Virus and Firewall/Application/IPS filtering on desktops for a long
list of reasons. I'm privy to them, it's just far to long to
explain it all... At any rate, they're very good points.
My question is this: has anyone used Symantec (Norton) AV 11? Last
I administered SAV 10 corporate edition for Mac, it was really just
the regular home user edition with a corporate sticker on it
instead. There was a way to cobble together a central Live Update
server, but it had to be on a Mac and was completely separate from
the Windows Live Update server we ran. Apparently (at least with
version 10) the DAT files weren't the same format for Windows and
Mac. Why they'd do this, I have no idea... McAfee VirusScan
actually does a fairly good job on the Mac and it will integrate
just fine to ePolicy Orchestrator and use the same DATs as Windows,
complete with centralized pushing... It's the one thing on the Mac
here that's done well.
I'm worried about taking a step backwards...
Thanks
j
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Jared Nichols
ISD Infrastructure and Operations - Desktop Engineering
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood St.
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
(781) 981-5500
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