Ask HN: What happened to Anti-Virus suites?

2 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by scanny

Item id: 50131629

3 Comments

toomuchtodo

8 hours ago

Replaced by native OS solutions (Windows Defender) and EDR (Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, etc). Anti-virus->Anti-malware.

iririririr

6 hours ago

edr was born because anrivirus couldn't tell when employees would unionize

kinda /s

toomuchtodo

6 hours ago

EDR comes out of my budget, I see the value, how it’s leveraged is an org issue.

(pro organizing, pro union, anti worker surveillance)