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McAfee, like Symantec, has a Compliance driven sales cycle. No one likes the software, few think it's useful, but businesses must buy it due to their regulatory
by awakeasleep 6y ago
McAfee, like Symantec, has a Compliance driven sales cycle. No one likes the software, few think it's useful, but businesses must buy it due to their regulatory burdens.
The name doesn't matter. The marketing doesn't matter. The features don't matter. The performance doesn't matter. Laws and Industry Groups matter.
- tehlike 6y agoThat's true. Compliance - we went with clamav for what we do - it was easy to set up on cloud.
- hamandcheese 6y agoPerhaps there is a market for antivirus software that literally does nothing. - Enterprise ready - runs on premise - Vastly faster than the competition - Huge profit margins due to minimized developer costs
- laurent92 6y agoA bit like http://vanilla-js.com http://vanilla-js.com the Javascript framework of 0 bytes (25 bytes compressed), but that antivirus would have the upside of having exactly 0 added risk, which distinguishes it from the rest of its industry.
- mtzet 6y agoCompliance to what? I’m genuinely curious about who would mandate antivirus.
- robjan 6y agoAny regulated industry where money or lives are at stake. An example is finance where regulations specifically state that you must have antivirus installed, even on servers.
- LoSboccacc 6y agowhat class software as antivirus for the legislator?
- fakedang 6y agoDoesn't Defender qualify as satisfying the regulatory burden?
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- enkrs 6y agoEven for smaller companies, when doing financial audit (required by law in many places) - consultant firms do highly encourage use of “endpoint protection across organization”. So in case of some IT screwup and financial losses, the auditors can say- “Well, they had Industry standard antivirus, so this shouldn’t have happened. Our financial risk assesment was still correct.”
- vianneychevalie 6y agoISO 27001 specifically mentions it
- viraptor 6y agoPCI-DSS pretty much requires a malware protection solution. In practice - an antivirus.
- TylerE 6y agoWhy Not Windows Defender? It’s really quite competent and it’s pretty lightweight.
- PostPlummer 6y agoThat is just fine for PCI-DSS. Not a problem at all.