Front-Line Malicious Code Defense for the Enterprise from a Single Management Console

Front-line Malicious Code Defense
for the Enterprise from a
Single Management Console
White Paper®LANDesk White paper: Front-line Malicious Code Defense for the Enterprise from a Single Management Console
Table of Contents
Executive Summary............................................................................................................. 3
Introduction: Blended Threats are a Growing Reality............................................................ 3
The Antivirus Commodity Paradox....................................................................................... 4
Historically Well Positioned to Offer an Antivirus Solution...................................................... 4®The Power Behind LANDesk Antivirus Technology............................................................. 5®Overview of LANDesk Antivirus Software............................................................................ 7®Key Features of LANDesk Antivirus Software.................................................................... 10
Conclusion......................................................................................................................... 12
References......................................................................................................................... 12
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Executive Summary Enterprises of all sizes continue to face security breaches from various kinds of malicious code. Viruses and worms remain the most serious threat facing corporations today. In addition, spyware has shot up the priority list of enterprise security threats and now ranks as the second most serious threat facing businesses.
While the security software industry is becoming increasingly commoditized, with intense downward pressure on prices, leading security software vendors have actually increased the prices of their products. Consequently, many customers have felt "locked in" and would consider other antivirus alternatives to reduce their annual Spyware has become both a subscription costs. security and system management nightmare. Theft of confidential Research firm Gartner, Inc. contends that historically, companies have avoided information, loss of employee changing antivirus vendors because the perceived security risk of changing vendors productivity, consumption of didn't outweigh potential cost benefits. However, with the commoditization of large amounts of bandwidth, antivirus solutions, organizations are less fearful of change, but they still won't damage to corporate desktops, change if they believe they will compromise their security by doing so. and a spike in the number of helpdesk calls related to Over the past few years, many LANDesk customers have been using the built-in ®spyware are forcing corporations antivirus enforcement features in LANDesk Security Suite to help them manage of all sizes to take action. their existing McAfee, Norton, Sophos, Symantec or Trend-Micro antivirus solution directly from the single LANDesk Security Suite console. Based on customer Although the consequences of feedback, LANDesk recognized an o... [download for more]