Making Your Business Secure

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Making Your Business Secure

• Denis Finnegan
• TescoDiets.com

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What we will be covering

• Recent report from the ISSA on Virus related
  damage to Irish Business
• Understanding the Virus Problem and its 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

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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, youd take
• it very seriously indeed Minister
• McDowell Launching the Report.

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Whats this Costing Us?
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Time is Money!
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The Financial Burdon
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Not Taking the Threat Seriously!
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The New Viral Generation

• Worms Viruses
• Boot Viruses
• Macro Viruses
• Email Program Virus

• Malware
• Ad ware Browser Hijackers
• Spyware P2P
• Trojan Horses
• Miscellaneous Security
• Bots, Key loggers, Dialer etc

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Examples of Adware and Spyware
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Antivirus and End Point Security

• Anti-Virus
• Anti-Malware
• Firewall
• Remote Login
• Backdoors
• Hijacking
• PUAs
• Potentially Unwanted Apps

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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

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Why did we Choose Sophos?

• Requirements
• Ease of installation and Management
• Complete protection
• Reasonably Priced
• Three Antivirus Products
• McAfee
• Sophos
• Symantec

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Sophos Pricing
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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..

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Finding Machines on the Domain
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Issues a long the way

• Uninstall of Symantec
• Biggest and most time
• consuming problem.
• Windows Firewall Issue
• Occurs with any remote
• installation with F/W on.
• System Resources
• When Aggressive Policy deployed on Low Spec
  machines however,
• Easily Remedied from the Management Console

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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

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Console View
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Machine History
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Reporting Tool
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Sophos Client
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Symantec Client
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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

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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

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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