[Cialug] OT - Sophos vs ESET

[Josh More]

Sophos's base design is "Do a decent job of out of the box protection
and give the admin the tools to better secure the environment if they
want"

Kaspersky's base design is "Do the best job of out of the box
protection possible, but don't allow for much configurability."

ESET sits right in the middle and does neither job very well.

If you have an hour per day to work on tuning the Sophos solution,
with a goal of getting down to 15 minutes per day, go with Sophos.  If
you don't, go with Kaspersky.  There is really no reason to go with
ESET.

In either case, you should also load Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation
Toolkit (confusingly called EMET) to supplement whatever you choose.

-Josh

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Bryan Baker <bbaker at iowalaw.org> wrote:
> Any strong reactions between these two?
> We’re currently using Sophos, and have for about 6 years. Much happier than we were w/ CA back in the day.
> We’re getting a pretty hard sell from the vendor we buy Sophos through on ESET.
> On Paper ESET looks pretty good, and it could save us some money.
>
> Hi, btw - been too long. Many of you may not know me, but I’ve been around a long time, just haven’t been doing meetings (or much list activity) lately.
>
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