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Anyone on the new Sophos Home Beta?
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<blockquote data-quote="notabot" data-source="post: 793571" data-attributes="member: 75970"><p>2.x feels lighter than 1.x on my old PC. The online dashboard doesn’t show anything related to intercept X/ML.</p><p></p><p>For my new laptop I’ve spent the time to configure Win 10 native security mechanisms, so I’ll pass on Sophos there.</p><p></p><p>2.x feels lighter and with intercept x and quarantine it is a significant improvement over 1.x but tbh the only advantage I see it having over Windows Defender is the web dashboard to manage many machines.</p><p></p><p>- There’s no testing suite to verify if all modules work as intended.</p><p>- There’s little configurability with respect to how aggressive we want the AV to be. Windows Defender is very configurable via group policy.</p><p>- There’s nothing like ASR</p><p>- no 2FA on Sophos home login page</p><p>- we have no info on what’s being scanned & monitored and whatnot, eg what happens to a file not present in whitelists ? What happens with svchost processes? What happens with scripts ?</p><p>- there’s no configuration regarding what’s being uploaded.</p><p>- we have no clue how well it performs under various scenarios because it doesn’t participate in tests.</p><p></p><p>I don’t think it’s a bad suite and the devs clearly worked hard for this release but to the extent it can’t beat free (WD), realistically there’s significant room for improvements.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="notabot, post: 793571, member: 75970"] 2.x feels lighter than 1.x on my old PC. The online dashboard doesn’t show anything related to intercept X/ML. For my new laptop I’ve spent the time to configure Win 10 native security mechanisms, so I’ll pass on Sophos there. 2.x feels lighter and with intercept x and quarantine it is a significant improvement over 1.x but tbh the only advantage I see it having over Windows Defender is the web dashboard to manage many machines. - There’s no testing suite to verify if all modules work as intended. - There’s little configurability with respect to how aggressive we want the AV to be. Windows Defender is very configurable via group policy. - There’s nothing like ASR - no 2FA on Sophos home login page - we have no info on what’s being scanned & monitored and whatnot, eg what happens to a file not present in whitelists ? What happens with svchost processes? What happens with scripts ? - there’s no configuration regarding what’s being uploaded. - we have no clue how well it performs under various scenarios because it doesn’t participate in tests. I don’t think it’s a bad suite and the devs clearly worked hard for this release but to the extent it can’t beat free (WD), realistically there’s significant room for improvements. [/QUOTE]
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