Tag: symantec
Expertise, Semi-Resume
by me on Jul.14, 2008, under Uncategorized
Well, I thought I would list my expertise here since I’m bored while waiting on a call at 9pm and a download to finish.
First off, I want to state that I started off as a software engineer, sooooo keeping that in mind, there are the technologies and programming language I know or have known in the past.
- Programming Languages:
ASP, ASP.NET, BASIC, C#, C, C++, COBOL(VERY Rusty), PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Pascal, Delphi, Java - Programming Tools:
Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, Delphi, Borland Development Suite - Application Administration:
IBM Websphere 5.x/6.x, Hitachi P-Synch, Microsoft Server 2003, Microsoft SQL 2000/2005, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.x, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006, Checkpoint Firewall, BIG-IP F5, Linux (RHEL 4/5-SUSE 10.x), VMWare Server ESX 3.0
I think that covers the things in my head right now, I’m sure I missed quite a bit.
Malware Rant in Large Corporations
by me on May.15, 2008, under Computer Security, Endpoint, Malware
I’ve seen this all over!
In large organizations you can’t always “lock down” workstations due to productivity loss and irritating employees that could and will go elsewhere. It’s surprising how hard it is to implement solutions that will protect corporate and personal data just because they can’t install their little widget that makes little pictures fly across their screen.
Well Symantec decided to reclassify My Web Search Bar as a Downloader which totally screwed my reporting the other day. We showed like a bazillion infections.
I researched this and found the file to be innocuous. Symantec’s solution? To tell me the file was innocuous and to ignore it.
Well anyway, I have to deal with this and other malware in ASIA due to keygens and other shananigans that people don’t realize are on their USB storage or what not. Oh well, at least it keeps me in a job.
I’m currently working on getting the Symantec Endpoint Protection tested and implemented globally. That’s a huge endeavor on 13,000+ workstations and servers. I’m a little leary of installing on servers at this point because I don’t know the impact on applications yet. It does some new funky things and i don’t want anyone yelling at me.
I personally like the product, they’ve fixed many things in the MR2 release. We’ll see how this whole project pans out.
