Endpoint Security and Spyware

The Business Problem

Increasingly distributed and porous enterprise networks make it difficult for IT managers to ensure the health and security of the organization’s desktop, laptop and server computers. The growing number of remote and mobile computers connecting in from public or foreign networks increases the likelihood that enterprise computers may be compromised by malicious software. Employees, contractors, suppliers and partners routinely access corporate data via remote networks, VPNs, or wireless connections, often unwittingly providing entry points for security threats to enterprise resources.

Malware--viruses, spyware, and other software pests--can threaten business continuity, require time-consuming remediation, lower employee productivity, and compromise sensitive corporate and customer data. Already thousands of software viruses have proliferated in cyberspace, along with tens of thousands of programs that can steal data and give attackers access to computers. Microsoft estimates unwanted, malicious programs are responsible for 50 percent of all PC crashes. Malware damages business operations in many ways. The following are just a few examples:

• Compromising critical business systems and sensitive information by capturing and broadcasting end-user passwords, and other sensitive data beyond the organization
• Disrupting business operations by saturating networks with spurious or malicious traffic
• Unnecessarily increasing IT and help-desk calls and forcing IT departments to spend time and money diagnosing and remediating pest-created issues
• Lowering end-user productivity with frequent pop-up advertising, computer slow-downs and instability
• Wasting enterprise resources by causing excessive bandwidth and disk space consumption
• Human resources and morale issues from offensive spam and other unsolicited content

The BigFix Solution

BigFix Endpoint Security products and solutions help protect computers and their sensitive information from viruses and spyware. With BigFix, enterprises gain improved security, better compliance support, and reduced costs of managing endpoint security elements. BigFix Endpoint Security products provide:

• Comprehensive spyware and non-virus software pest detection, removal, and real-time reporting
• Precision control of spyware remediation, including scheduling and managing remediation exceptions
• Enterprise-scale management, updating, and reporting for widely available third-party anti-spyware tools
• Improved management, updating, and reporting services for leading third-party anti-virus products to help close the critical 5-to-20 percent “anti-virus coverage gap” suffered by many enterprise networks due to missing or disabled anti-virus client coverage and obsolete definition files
• Centralized, comprehensive real-time visibility and management of endpoint security for the entire enterprise

Buying Guide

BigFix AntiPest™—Provides comprehensive spyware and other non-virus software pest detection, removal, and reporting for enterprise networks.

BigFix Enterprise Suite Client Manager for Spyware Tools—Adds enterprise-scale management to third-party anti-spyware tools including, automated update, and reporting functions.

BigFix Enterprise Suite Client Manager for Anti-Virus—Helps to manage, update, and report on third-party anti-virus clients, enabling organizations to narrow the “anti-virus coverage gap”.

BigFix Enterprise Suite platform—The highly scalable, real-time foundation for BigFix configuration management and security solutions. The BigFix Enterprise Suite platform is a prerequisite for all BigFix Endpoint Security and Spyware products.

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