Making Your Business Secure

Denis Finnegan

TescoDiets.com

What we will be covering

Recent report from the ISSA on Virus related damage to Irish Business

Understanding the Virus Problem and it’s Changing Nature.

TescoDiets case study on our own issues and the migration to the Sophos Antivirus Product. The Problems with our existing Product. Choosing the most Suitable Product for TescoDiets. The Actual Deployment, Technical Issues, etc…

Irish Cyber Crime Survey 2006 Information Systems Security Association

University College Dublin Targeted 135 Medium to Large Private and Public

organisations. 86% of Irish Business affected by Cyber Crime in some

form this year alone with that figure Rising to 98% overall 22% reporting over €100,000 in Costs 39% say they had suffered Financial Fraud with 19.5%

having experienced this in the last year and 36.6% had Intellectual Property stolen with half that figure occurring in the last Year.

“If that was arson or theft, you’d takeit very seriously indeed” Minister McDowell Launching the Report.

What’s this Costing Us?

Time is Money!

The Financial Burdon

Not Taking the Threat Seriously!

The New Viral Generation Worms & Viruses

Boot VirusesMacro VirusesEmail & Program Virus

MalwareAd ware – Browser HijackersSpyware – P2PTrojan HorsesMiscellaneous Security Bots, Key loggers, Dialer etc

Examples of Adware and Spyware

Antivirus and End Point Security

Anti-Virus Anti-Malware Firewall

Remote Login Backdoors Hijacking

PUA’s Potentially Unwanted Apps

Reasons for Change

PC Performance problems running existing Antivirus Client

Unsatisfactory Vendor Support Difficult and unintuitive Interfaces Decentralised, Centralised Management

System Time Consuming and difficult to configure

Why did we Choose Sophos?

RequirementsEase of installation and ManagementComplete protectionReasonably Priced

Three Antivirus ProductsMcAfeeSophosSymantec

Sophos Pricing

Ongoing Costs

Cost of Ownership 1yr 2yr (1.5) 3yr (2) 4yr (2.5) 5yr (3) Intro 3 for 1 10% Discount

Price per License €39.15 €29.36 €26.10 €24.47 €23.49 €13.05 €11.75

Total Cost 50 Licenses Per Year €1,957.50 €1,468.00 €1,305.00 €1,223.50 €1,174.50 €652.50 €590.25

Total Cost 50 Licenses over # yrs€1,957.5

0€2,936.0

0€3,915.0

0€4,894.0

0€5,872.5

0€1,957.50 €1,761.75

Workings

Year by Discount €1,957.50 €2,936.25 €3,915.00 €4,893.75 €5,872.50 €1,957.50

Price Per Year   €1,468.13 €1,305.00 €1,223.44 €1,174.50 €652.50

Price Per License   €29.36 €26.10 €24.47 €23.49 €13.05

TescoDiets Rollout

Installed the Product Setup EM Library and

Scheduled the Library updates. Opened the Management

Console and searched for Computers. Configured some policies and installed the

Antivirus to all machines. And.. Had a coffee break..

Finding Machines on the Domain

Issues a long the way

Uninstall of Symantec Biggest and most time

consuming problem. Windows Firewall Issue

Occurs with any remoteinstallation with F/W on.

System Resources When Aggressive Policy deployed on Low Spec

machines however, Easily Remedied from the Management Console

Features that Impressed me!

Ease of Installation and Intuitive UI

Information at your fingertips

Instant End Point Status

Remote Problem Resolution

Simple Policy Creation

Machine History Application Control Simple and Straight

Forward Reporting Application Self

Updating

Console View

Machine History

Reporting Tool

Sophos Client

Symantec Client

Bottom Line

Save on Costs with Sophos due to competitive pricing Save Time by

Saving IT Management & Resolution Time By Protecting from PUAs, removing potential future problems

Increases Productivity Less disturbance to end users for resolutions Saves time on client upgrades as clients update themselves. Removing programs and applications that slow down PC perf.

Reduce strain on Resources Removing Applications that drain network resources and

bandwidth Peace of Mind

Knowing that all the bases are covered

Conclusion

Combining Effectiveness at Blocking and removing a Virus & Malware with straight forward installation and Management and an informative dashboard, Sophos End Point Security is ideal for business looking to ensure they are protected while reducing the amount of time they spend managing that protection

References

ISSA Survey http://www.issaireland.org/cybercrime

Independent Product Analysis - Cascadia Labs http://www.cascadialabs.com

Vendor - Sophos http://www.Sophos.com

Reseller - Renaissance http://www.Renaissance.com

Local Provider – Qualcom http://www.Qualcom.ie