Dorset County Councilis protecting
its 15,000school computerswith a new security
solution fromESET.
The council has signed a deal with ESET that extends its current
NOD32 Enterprise Edition licence agreement, which protects the
council's 4,500 desktop computers and associated servers against
viruses and other malicious attacks.
Dorset considered criteria such as CPU resources used and
heuristic security functionality to choose the school PC
protection system.
Tony Beazer, senior ICT officer at Dorset County Council, said,
"We chose ESET NOD32 because it did extremely well in our tests.
One of the main features we like about NOD32 is its light
footprint. Our machines are replaced on a four-year cycle, so for
the older machines having something that is effective and light on
CPU power makes a big difference to how quickly the machines can
run."
NOD32 conserves disk space and in memory with the installer just
larger than 8.5MB and the application taking up less than 20Mbytes
of memory.
"Heuristic capabilities were also one of the features we looked
at when choosing our anti-virus solution,"
said Beazer. "The combination of new threats often being
exploited before a vulnerability has even been announced, and a
large network to update even when we do know about a potential
threat, means that reliable heuristic detection is an important
aspect of
securing the network."
The council had previously suffered from minor virus outbreaks
with its original entirely
signature-based security system, said Beazer.
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