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Antivirus Management & Maintenance
Why implement an antivirus software policy?
An antivirus policy involves the need to protect your computer systems
and networks from viruses, trojans, worms, bots and malware. The
number of threats to computer and network security is continually
growing, with the latest statistics revealing many new virus definitions
discovered every day. Laptops and email are probably the best known
methods of infecting a network, but malware and viruses transferred
through internet browsing are also an issue.
Security is not just a matter for the Information
Systems Helpdesk, but it is the responsibility of all users to ensure
that their equipment has the approved antivirus software installed
and that it is kept up to date in order to mitigate the risk of
a security breach.
This policy affects all personnel who have, or
are responsible for, a user ID which allows access to any computer
system or network owned or managed by a company.
Our antivirus policy ensures that:
- There exists control against any malicious software usage.
- The security policy does address software licensing issues
such as prohibiting usage of unauthorised software.
- Web pages are checked for malicious code.
- There exists any Procedure to verify all warning bulletins
are accurate and informative with regards to the malicious software
usage.
- Antivirus software is installed on the computers to check
and isolate or remove any viruses from computer and media.
- This software signature is updated on a regular basis to check
any latest viruses.
- All the traffic originating from un-trusted network in to
the organisation is checked for viruses.
- Example: Checking for viruses on email, email
attachments and on the web, FTP traffic.
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