049. James Mckinlay: Why I turned antivirus off!
Feb 20, 2020•44 min
Episode description
Is your antivirus working for you? It wasn't for James Mckinlay, the Group Information Security Officer at Barbican Insurance, so he made the controversial decision to switch it off! James discusses why he made this decision and infrastructure he built to replace it.
Key points:
1'18 The decision to turn off antivirus
2'35 Alternatives to antivirus
4'10 Application whitelisting
13'28 Cyber Essentials
16'53 To patch or not to patch
23'00 Other things we turned off
34'50 Not everyone should switch their antivirus off!
Download on iTunes: apple.co/2Ji61Ek
Listening time: 40 minutes
Hosted by: Holly Grace Williams | Technical Director at Secarma
Guest: James Mckinlay | Group Information Security Officer at Barbican Insurance