Security Management View of Implementing Enterprise Antivirus Protection

This paper provides practical information to consider when planning the deployment, upgrade, design, or engineering of an enterprise antivirus solution. Antivirus solutions usually focus on Microsoft Windows environments, but this paper adds some tangential notes about Macintosh and UNIX variants. Included are descriptions of security management activities that increase the benefit of antivirus product(s) deployment in an enterprise setting, such as describing deployment design within a 'layers of defense' paradigm. Other facets of operating administering and maintaining antivirus technologies are also described in addition to the identification of some management metrics that quantify the value of antivirus deployment.