AV offerings from CA, Symantec and Trend Micro provide centralized quarantining of files and reporting. Some suites let you centrally distribute viral definitions instead of requiring you to grab them off the vendor's site, thereby saving you bandwidth. Check out the simplest AV suite, including the consumer-grade versions. These products may require a subscription fee to access virus-definition updates, so keep in mind potential recurring costs. CA and Sophos both offer free updates for life.
Buy-In
In the end, all the security in the world won't beat out proper user education. Your antivirus software is useless if your user turns it off because it messes up "frog in a blender" games. Make sure user education is part and parcel of your desktop-security plan, or you'll spend more time eliminating pervasive intruders than simply preventing them from entering.
Maintaining centrally managed security policies can be a full-time endeavor, which makes outsourcing so attractive. Check out comprehensive outsource packages--antivirus, VPN, firewall and reporting--but be sure to ask providers these questions:
* What will signature updates cost?
* What will software updates and major new releases cost?
* What happens if you stop subscribing to the service? Does the AV software stop working?
* How can I access reports for forensic purposes?
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
