Protection Engine for Network Attached Storage

If we assume that all files located on a NAS are read/written through workstations only (no upload through web server for example), does it make sense to implement both Symantec Endpoint Protection on workstations AND SAV for NAS on NAS appliances in a single organization?

both are different solutions you need to have them together.

SEP is for endpoint only

SAV is for NAS..

if there is a virus on NAS and no one is accessing that file, it can stay there happily for ever and do its job...

Hi Rafeeq,

thanks for your answer.

A remark: how a virus can be located on NAS if all files were previously scanned by workstation before being transfered to the NAS?

It's possible there was no definitions at the time to detect it.

It does make sense because you need something to scan the files on the user machines.

Another option is to create a new box for scanning the NAS, use SEP and map to your NAS shares, create a custom scan in SEP to map those shares. Realise this is outside the scope of SEP but it can be done with SEP only.

Thanks Brian, it's clear now!

great :)