Antivirus & Antispyware integration

[Nick]

We are looking at the possibility of integrating Antivirus & AntiSpyware into ParagoAgent to give the ability to audit the level of coverage across your network. Below is a rough outline of the capabilities and we would be very interested in getting everyones feedback on how useful this would be to your school or business.

Antivirus & AntiSpyware Integration
Our proposed Antivirus and AntiSpyware solution would allow us to integrate with currently installed virus and spy ware solutions. The ‘ParagoAgent’ would interface with whatever software is currently installed on each client machine and interrogate it for information on its current status. This information is then uploaded to the correct account and stored against the relevant PC. This then gives a live representation of the virus and spy ware status of all machines that ParagoAgent is currently installed on.


This gives you the following abilities.

* Unique ability to retrieve virus/spy ware information from all major virus/spyware software
* Account managers can query this information across multiple accounts (LEA can see status of all its schools)
* Automated alerts for reporting virus/spy ware issues

Create reports

* That show any machines (laptops/pcs) that have no antivirus and/or anti-spyware
* List any machines that currently have detected viruses or spyware
* Show any machines that have out of date definition files
* List the machines that have not had a full scan within the last week (or any date range)
* Build up a picture of what virus/spyware software is installed across all machines

Search

* Find any particular machine with a version of virus/spyware software
* Find machines with out of date definition files
* Search for virus/spyware information and specific virus/spyware names within the data returned

[Gerald]

Interesting thought, Nick.

In Newham, we use Sophos, and the latest version uses Enterprise Console, which allows us to do the same things, but in addition, it allows us to push AV out to the workstations. However, it might be useful to have this information available via Parago, so that it can form part of our standard reporting schedule. The capabilities you indicate sound great for network admins.