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cheap but effective AV solution for school?

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by mikeindo 1 view

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I'm helping a school with a $1200 annual tech budget get a desktop security solution in place. It's a private school, so they're not going to get add'l funding either. They have 60 PCs and two W2K3 servers. Dell and HP PCs' age range from brand-new to about three or four years, and RAM is anywhere from 128 to 512 MB. They've been using 60 individual installations of Norton, McAfee, and AVG, and they need a centrally managed AV solution (signatures, installation, monitoring, alerting). Any suggestions? And really, they are also looking for web filtering - the current solution is the parental controls that came with the Norton or McAfee. So a network web-filtering system too? Or maybe a host-based IPS solution? I'm open to whatever. Thanks in advance!

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by boxfiddler Hot topic

AVG has a reasonably priced network package. You might also look at Avast!, though I can't say what their offerings would be in that vein. You may also find that they have special deals for education.

Can't help with the net filter - I'm not too up on that at the moment.

by jocar7

Local Web Filtering - www.k9webprotection.com

DNS Web Filtering - http://www.opendns.com

Serverside Open Source Proxy server - http://www.squid-cache.org

HOST File redirection for known websites with threats embedded. - http://www.mvps.org

If they have bought even a single McAfee Enterprise AV license then "ePO" central mgmt console is available to download with your grant number. From CDWG you can buy a few here and a few there till you have all covered. (a ballpark price per client is $25, of course with the more bought there is price breaks.) Just a thought.

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