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Best Practices Case Study: Containing Endpoint Infections

• Tags:
• patch,
• antivirus,
• worms,
• patch management

Overview How can organizations better contain virus outbreaks and defend against destructive or mass-mailing worms? That was the question National Instruments, an Austin, Texas-based manufacturer of testing software and hardware asked. The company had already deployed enterprise-wide antivirus and patch management software, but it wanted a way to contain those still-inevitable endpoint infections. To better tackle viruses and worms, the company first created a better-layered defense by standardizing on one antivirus software package, with IT centrally administering antivirus policies. Then it began using Microsoft's Systems Management Server (SMS) to handle patch management for Windows machines.

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