Enterprise deployment

Microsoft is trying to own Enterprise Desktop Security.

Right now, they have positioned themselves to control--
Firewall (XP SP2), System Update (using AD and GPOs and
SUS/WUS), buffer overflow protection (XP SP2), and manage
anti-virus through partnerships with the A/V vendors (or
do what they did last year and buy one of the A/V vendors
and be done with it).

QUESTION:
Giant Anti-Spyware is a standalone technology, will MS
build a centralized, Enterprise Anti-Spyware solution
similar to Webroot and PestPatrol Enterprise?

Will Microsoft rely on MOM/SMS to control desktop security
from the Enterprise perspective?

As it stands, we use Active Directory with GPOs to force
system updates with SUS (we select what patches to employ)
and force A/V updates with the Symantec Enterprise Anti-
virus Server (managed A/V through the SAV server).


Also, Microsoft made a very bold and awesome move
purchasing Giant.

In October, a research scientist performed spyware test
with the top 11 anti-spyware tools.

Giant perfomed better then any solution out there,
surpassing the often used Ad-Aware, Spybot, and PestPatrol
by A LOT.

http://spywarewarrior.com/asw-test-guide.htm