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Re:Apple is making corporate ‘BYOD’ programs less invasive t... by briandear on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:33AM (#20156335)
What kind of anti-virus is required on a Mac? (Not debating, just curious.) I work for a FAANG on fairly sensitive projects and I’ve never heard of anyone in my org having anti-virus. FileVault, remote wipe, etc., but not anti-virus. Are their credible anti-virus systems form Mac and Linux?
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Re:Apple is making corporate ‘BYOD’ programs less invasive t... by sdoering on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @12:36PM (#20157012)
Don't ask me. It is in the enrollment standard.

I strongly believe all this software only enlarges the potential attack surface.

Not sure if this "zoo" of software is more of a security theater and a legal protection to be able to tell everybody "we did all we could possibly do" in case of an attack/hack/what not.

But even if I strongly suspect my device was more secure before, I know, that lot's of less tech-savvy people will have at least some standard (encrypted SDD, and such) enforced. So I am not yet decided if in the end the net benefit is positive.

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Re:Apple is making corporate ‘BYOD’ programs less invasive t... by pjmlp on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @12:07PM (#20156686)
Symantec or Macfee come to mind, regardless what we might think about them.

It all about fulfilling IT and law checklists.

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