AntiVirus Update Procedures

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Anti-Virus Update Procedures

• For your Home and Business to Secure Your Mind
• Jon Loehndorf

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Agenda

• Why Procedures to Update AV?
• Home
• Office/Business
• Security Manager
• Hackers
• Reference Sites

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Why Procedures to Update AV?

• Keep systems protected from latest assaults from
  Virus/Trojans/Worms
• Help Ensure CIA
• Keep consistent implementation plan
• Understanding of Environment

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Home

• Procedure
• Allow Auto Update
• Monitor Site information and News reports
• Reason
• Auto Update keeps you in touch with AV Vendor and
  removes tendency to Procrastinate
• This keeps you informed of possible new threats
  and inoculating your system against it.

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Office/Business

• Procedure
• Set test system up with Auto Update
• Ensure update has not ill effect on system
• Push change to rest of company systems
• Review Alert resources
• Reason
• Single entry point
• Testing to ensure Cure not worse than Virus
• Centralized change management point for company
• Keep ahead of possible attack and get possible
  clean up tools to missed attack

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Security Manager

• Consistent implementation
• Compatibility Testing
• Fire Fighting Tools
• Improved CIA Capability

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Hackers

• Virus are excellent delivery vehicles
• Open backdoor ports
• View transactions
• Hijack system
• Steal data
• Hamper operations for gain (tech blackmail)
• Try to work between time virus is written and
  countered by vendors

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Reference Sites

• Vendor
• www.symantec.com
• www.mcafee.com
• Informational
• www.cert.com
• www.cnn.com/tech/
• Local news

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QUESTIONS?