by: Brian C Teasley
With the IT space becoming more proactive than reactive, scans are on the rise. And with more scans means more performance issues during scans. This means that a smart placement of your scanning is crucial to ensuring a productive end user environment.
It's time to ask yourself a simple question. When should I be running scans?
Running scans during off hours is key to insure minimal end user interruptions, but what about machines that are shut off every night? Devices that are inconsistently available such as laptops? This is where the problem becomes more complicated.
We will be looking at the following products.
Patch Management
Managed Antivirus - Bitdefender
Risk Intelligence
Let's look at the different scans and how we can accomplish this.