While MSFT and CSCO duke it out in many sections, what about the other giants, McAfee and Symantec?
Pick your flavor or realistically what your real business requirements are and you can find a vendor that is most suited to your needs or at least how much you’re willing to pay. But it comes to control at the host themselves, the once anti-virus contender have much more to offer. Through scientific research (which really means experiences in the industry) the challenge appears to be with reporting and this is more prevalent with Symantec SEPM vs. McAfee’s ePO product line. While third-party products can supplement and off-set SEP 11, ePolicy Orchestrator serves up better reporting and flexibility as well as better supportability of OS X and Linux hosts. Sorry, you’ll have to wait till Q1 2010 for SEPM.
The larger the deployment it would seem that additional reporting and tracking is necessary to the point that separate SQL databases are being installed to track and report on specific client criteria, agentless host and specific/immediate malware notifications.
You pick the flavor but at the time of this writing, advantage McAfee. So, that mean advantage Cisco too, then?
The larger the deployment it would seem that additional reporting and tracking is necessary to the point that separate SQL databases are being installed to track and report on specific client criteria, agentless host and specific/immediate malware notifications.
You pick the flavor but at the time of this writing, advantage McAfee. So, that mean advantage Cisco too, then?
- Symantec Endpoint Protection Support for Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server &Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server
- Harnessing the Power of McAfee and Cisco for Enterprise-Ready Network Admissions and Access Control
