Re: [fw-wiz] OT: Av and Gartner...

From: Jim McAtee (jmcatee_at_mediaodyssey.com)
Date: 07/31/03

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    To: "John Keeton" <jkeeton@nettoxin.net>, <firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:38:45 -0600

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    From: "John Keeton" <jkeeton@nettoxin.net>
    To: <firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:09 PM
    Subject: [fw-wiz] OT: Av and Gartner...

    > Slightly OT here.
    >
    > In corporate land, where does everyone have AV installed? Currently, we
    > have desktop, NT servers, and email gateway. I am thinking that we need
    > http/ftp scanning via ICAP from our proxy, but Gartner[1] says http/ftp
    > scanning is uneeded. I don't know if I agree.. -OR- Are people installing
    > malicious code detection software, like www.finjan.com??
    >
    > Also, anyone have any experiance with Garner regarding security items? This
    > AV answer, joined with their latest magic quad. for firewalls and ids is
    > just plain scary. I don't know if I even want to put an ounce of faith in
    > them anymore.

    Never understood running AV on servers. How would they get infected? Very
    little, if any, browser use is permitted on our servers and no email clients
    are ever run on them. Now, if we're talking about servers in a DMZ, such as
    web servers, compromises are always a possibility, but very few of those would
    be caught by an AV.

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