For the past few years, everyone seems to be down on antivirus software. This sentiment was exhibited in a recent ESG research report titled, The Endpoint Security Paradox (note: I am an ESG employee). When asked to identify challenges associated with their antivirus software, 34% of security professionals complained about too many false positives that classify benign flies/software as malware, while 33% said that products are not nearly as effective at blocking and/or detecting malware as they should be.
This and other data give the impression that AV software simply doesn’t work but there may be other factors in play here. For example, ESG found that 73% of enterprise organizations have two or more unique AV products deployed across the enterprise. Amazingly, 29% of large organizations have three or more unique AV products deployed across the enterprise.
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