The option to choose Apache or IIS in SEPM

Its an interesting idea, but with IIS, the customer has to manage the vulnerabilities and patch the product themselves.  We use minimal components of Apache and manage the patching as part of the SEPM releases - so Apache is less effort for customers, it also gives better performance than IIS because its been highly tuned by us to support SEPM services.

Personally I would prefer Apache for

1) Security Products

2) External Web Servers

We can not compromise our networks at least after the CodeRed attack that hit a few years back.

Also from a troubleshooting perspective, looking at one place would be much easier and having fewer moving components help.

So, does that mean that the next SEP will have an option to use Apache and MySQL?

I was lucky to be one of those to be able to use the Symantec Threat Reporter a while back, so I have an idea of Symantec's implementation of Apache ang MySQL. Just clicked on the "Agree" button.

Hi Mon_rarallo,

SEP 12.1 uses Apache/Tomcat, there's currently no plan to use MySQL. If my memory did not fail me, it would be possible to use Threat Reporter on MSSQL and you would be able to share SEP manager DB on MSSQL.