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!

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Listening time: 40 minutes

Hosted by: Holly Grace Williams | Technical Director at Secarma

Guest: James Mckinlay | Group Information Security Officer at Barbican Insurance