30 April 2009

UK charitable organisation Surrey Community Development Trust (SCDT) has adopted antivirus solution VIPRE Enterprise. The product was provided by Windows security specialist Sunbelt Software and will roll out to 16 sites in Surrey and Berkshire.

SCDT decided to change its existing antivirus product due to its effect on employee productivity. “With our previous solution, scans for malware would last up to several hours, and the machines were not able to support other activities during this time,” explained Andrew Hogwood, IT support officer at SCDT. “This was affecting user productivity on a regular basis. When our security software licenses came up for renewal we decided to look at alternative providers that could better meet our needs.”

VIPRE was rolled out across the organisation’s sites, with the implementation managed centrally from SCDT headquarters. Users have a single agent running in the background on their machines, ensuring they are protected against threats at all times.

“I have used a wide variety of security products in the past, and the problems that we faced were always around the amount of resources that these systems required,” said Hogwood. “VIPRE Enterprise provides the protection that our users require, but demands far less system resources to run. This allows our users to continue working without interruption or slow down. It was also a lot more cost-effective than our previous AV solution – as a not-for-profit organisation, our IT budget has to demonstrate real results back to the organisation, and VIPRE certainly delivers this.”

We have architected VIPRE from the ground up to be as light on resources as possible, ensuring that users can keep working even while active security scans and updates are being carried out

Alex Eckelberry, Sunbelt Software VIPRE Enterprise incorporates an antivirus and antispyware agent that merges the detection of all types of malware into a single system. The solution uses multiple techniques to inspect the characteristics of all types of potentially threatening files.

“Too often in the past, IT security would come at the expense of user productivity or ease of use,” commented Alex Eckelberry, CEO at Sunbelt Software. “Sunbelt’s approach to the antivirus market is based on making sure that our customers don’t have to face that dilemma. We have architected VIPRE from the ground up to be as light on resources as possible, ensuring that users can keep working even while active security scans and updates are being carried out.”

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