Netflix: Antivirus is dead

[Petrovic]

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http://www.myce.com/news/netflix-antivirus-is-dead-77100/

Video streaming service Netflix has decided to get rid antivirus software on the computers of its employees. The company didn’t renew the contract with the undisclosed antivirus company that protected the computers of Netflix staff.

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[MalwareT]

Why they don't use Linux instead ?

 

[Enju]

Why they don't use Linux instead ?

Good luck training over 2.000 employees to: work without MS Office and instead use the sub-par LibreOffice, the new window manager of their choice, with new packages breaking the whole system (even though it was tested), no easy network integration, the list could go on and on....

Fools.

They are still using an "AV", the title is misleading, they started using Sentinel One which is basically a system monitor that detects malware by their actions.

 

[Nico@FMA]

Actually not having a AV program running on their client (computers) is actually not that bad.
If you take a look at my own SabreWall NG100 system, this will allow to have a end point 3 way security layer that will control ANY client connected to the network and service a full protection over the network session based.
It actually does make a local program obsolete.
Yet even for a company like netflix such a move will cost them a pretty penny not to mention that their ICT Administrators need to totally re-educate themselves to respond to security and network problems, since their whole sequence of operations is changing dramatically.

Kind Regards,
Nico

 

[jamescv7]

Why not consider rollback/time machine or virtualization product with proper account privilege between Admin and limited account.

If Linux isn't an option or Free AV products.

Still security tools are not dead, sometimes a strong combination is enough.

 

[Nico@FMA]

Why not consider rollback/time machine or virtualization product with proper account privilege between Admin and limited account.

If Linux isn't an option or Free AV products.

Still security tools are not dead, sometimes a strong combination is enough.

Well that is a excellent option, yet Linux is often only used for server and mainframes, where Windows usually runs on the client PC's which allows them to run EXEL type scripts within their production line.
And free AV solutions are by default not an option, since they are useless and nowhere near capable of doing the things like enterprise type of security solutions. I have not yet come across a industry network that uses free security tools, it may sound stupid but its just not done, not because free products would be bad, they are just not up to the standard required for such networks.

 

[Ink]

Why they don't use Linux instead ?

Multi-platform is common, so Linux isn't a fool proof or a good solution for anyone.

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