Magyarulantidotum: a word deriving from the Greek word antidote and spread wide by the Latins, literally meaning "counteracting a poison".
In terms of the 21st century that means: anti-piracy, anti-malware, anti-spam and anti-hacker.
This is what the IT Managers nowadays are striving to: wittingly or unwittingly. Originally the role of the IT Manager was to understand the processes and procedures in the IT environment; to focus on monitoring and to directing its workforce; to develop plans and budgets. Today, he is overwhelmed by a lot of other threats and risks including piracy, ex parte seizures and raids performed by the authorities; by downtimes; by virus-attacks or by data leakages.
At large corporations these functions are mainly separated and covered by the Chief Information Officer and the Chief Security Officer. (Read more) Unfortunately there are millions of small to medium enterprises, where the management is not able to or does not want to introduce new positions of that kind. What is the solution then? Our answer is: antidotum.
antidote is a framework comprising of four basic pillars.
anti-piracy: We support the IT managers anti-piracy efforts with our proprietary software inventory and license management products: Accuratix for the SMBs and the highly scalable, sophisticated panta rhei extending the capabilities of Microsoft Systems Management Server and IBM Tivoli; with the unique ad acta knowledge-base for preparing the company for an unwanted software piracy audit, raid or ex-parte seizure performed by various authorities (police, tax office) ordered by BSA, FAST or SIIA); with software management policies based on industry standards (COBIT by ISACA, and CSM guide by SIIA). tabula rasa is the set our audit services we became regionally well-known for: software license auditing, writing IT policies and developing software management strategies.
anti-malware: On the side of anti-malware systems, we are a Platinum Partner for Sophos, whose family of products is the most reliable, least resource hungry, simple to understand and cost-effective. Sophos is a clear technology leader in the most complex, yet bullet-proof updating system in the industry, covering all existing threat vectors.
anti-spam: Every nine out of ten emails in the World is unsolicited or carries a malware. This is the greatest threat to the email system as a communication medium at all. We are helping the fight against the problem with anti-spam solutions, thus increasing the productivity of employees by lowering the lost time spent on reading the unwanted emails.
anti-hacker: every company having Internet access is exposed to unwanted attacks. But not everyone is aware that the firewalls, IDS/IPS and other devices like Web Security and filtering products does not have to be extremely costly.