Re: Anti-Virus Updates - How?

[Chris Brenton <cbrenton () chrisbrenton org>]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 09:04 +0300, George J. Jahchan wrote:
> AV should be one of several measures to mitigate the risk of being
> infected by malware. You should have an arsenal of independent measures
> in place for a strong anti-malware posture (defense in depth concept).

Indeed. I've become a big proponent of application white listing.
Administration is just sooo much easier than the A/V signature
treadmill. I've seen 5K node network run malware free for 1.5 years
using white listing but no anti-virus. Even watched a .mil type red team
get stopping dead in their tracks for the first time because the target
net had deployed it. Seems to work well in a SCADA type setup as well if
you digitally sign the apps you want to run.

HTH,
Chris
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