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Today's anti-malware management products attack the malware problem on multiple fronts, and provide a means for alerting that allows for rapid remediation, says Michael Lipinski.
Malware is the catch-all for most malicious and unwanted software, and includes viruses, worms, trojan horses, bots, rootkits, spyware and adware.
In this month's issue, we not only wanted to test the tools that we use to fight malware, we wanted to test the capabilities of these tools to handle the multiple threats we lump into the malware definition. We also were interested in their ability to centralize management, reporting, alerting and deployment of the malware solutions.
Why is this important? There are numerous solutions for fighting malware. We have anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, antiadware, rootkit detection, hostbased intrusion detection and prevention, and personal firewalls. For those who have deployed just one of these in an enterprise environment, you will appreciate the challenge in deploying multiple non-integrated or centrally managed solutions to thousands or tens of thousands of users.
The approaches from the vendors we reviewed this month took on this challenge in some very creative ways. Some solutions were endpoint focused, while others were gateway...