Symantec & Altiris: Death of Anti-*****
January 30th, 2007
The Symantec, Altiris deal is the first recognition of the fact that traditional anti-virus, anti-phisihing etc is a dying market. And this is not because Microsoft (MSFT) has decided to put some of the features in its newly launched Vista release.
Many corporations have realized that traditional anti-***** products stop the “known bad” stuff from entering their infrastructure. But it is much easier to keep track of “known good” stuff which provisioning systems like Altiris do. They make sure that only “known good” where good is defined by the corporate policy or by Dell for consumers is kept on the machines.
Solicore Systems is another example of this, where enterprise change control policy is used to ensure the known good state of the machine. If it came in via enterprise change control it is good, otherwise it is not.
If you can ensure that only known good stuff is on the machine, traditional anti-virus, anti-spam etc is dead.
Entry Filed under: Change Control, Who Buys Who
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