{"id":25884,"date":"2021-10-27T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/?p=25884"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:07:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T20:07:39","slug":"new-msu-antivirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/new-msu-antivirus\/","title":{"rendered":"New MSU antivirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MSU’s new endpoint antivirus, ESET Cloud Protect, is now available. ESET replaces Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) to better protect the MSU community. ESET protects your personal and MSU-owned devices from cyber threats, such as viruses and malware. <strong>All current Symantec Endpoint Protection licenses will expire on March 30, 2023.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"13\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ESET for personal devices:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{"134233279":true,"335559740":259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"o\" data-font=\"Courier New\" data-listid=\"13\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Faculty, staff, and researchers have access to free personal licenses: <a href=\"https:\/\/e5.onthehub.com\/WebStore\/OfferingsOfMajorVersionList.aspx?pmv=8e9ea806-03ce-eb11-813c-000d3af41938&cmi_mnuMain=1c3b383f-12fb-e411-940c-b8ca3a5db7a1&cmi_mnuMain_child=f6a16f92-d3ce-eb11-813c-000d3af41938&ws=ed2855fb-68b8-e411-9408-b8ca3a5db7a1&vsro=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download here<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"o\" data-font=\"Courier New\" data-listid=\"13\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"2\">Students have access to discounted personal licenses: <a href=\"https:\/\/e5.onthehub.com\/WebStore\/OfferingsOfMajorVersionList.aspx?pmv=8e9ea806-03ce-eb11-813c-000d3af41938&cmi_mnuMain=1c3b383f-12fb-e411-940c-b8ca3a5db7a1&cmi_mnuMain_child=f6a16f92-d3ce-eb11-813c-000d3af41938&ws=ed2855fb-68b8-e411-9408-b8ca3a5db7a1&vsro=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Symantec Endpoint Protection must be uninstalled from personal devices by March 30, 2023, to maintain compliance<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"13\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ESET for MSU-owned devices:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{"134233279":true,"335559740":259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"o\" data-font=\"Courier New\" data-listid=\"13\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Local or unit IT staff will select a time and deployment method that minimizes disruption<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"o\" data-font=\"Courier New\" data-listid=\"13\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Please direct any questions to your local or unit IT or SEP administrator<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"o\" data-font=\"Courier New\" data-listid=\"13\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you don\u2019t know your local or unit IT, please contact the MSU Service Desk at 517-432-6200<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Why ESET? <\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"335559740":252}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ESET provides modern antivirus solutions for a wider variety of devices and endpoints. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It also allows IT resources to be reprioritized as IT staff will no longer be responsible for maintaining the infrastructure related to the antivirus platform, in turn offering\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">greater efficiencies to better support the campus community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Learn more about MSU endpoint security\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/network\/security-services\/endpoint-security\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSU’s new endpoint antivirus, ESET Cloud Protect, is now available. ESET replaces Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) to better protect the MSU community. ESET protects your personal and MSU-owned devices from cyber threats, such as viruses and malware. All current Symantec Endpoint Protection licenses will expire on March 30, 2023.\u00a0 ESET for personal devices:\u00a0 Faculty, staff,… <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/new-msu-antivirus\/\" title=\"Read New MSU antivirus\">Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":25885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1200px-ESET_logo.svg-1.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6GvV1-6Ju","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25884"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27557,"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884\/revisions\/27557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.msu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}