Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting
Brent Rickels, senior vice president at First National Bank of Bosque County, had grown tired of dealing with antivirus software. He was tired of regularly updating virus signatures, tired of hackers constantly tweaking malware, and tired of worrying about what users had downloaded onto their PCs. So Rickels dumped the bank’s AV software for a whitelisting product and in the process, become one of its first commercial customers.
First National Bank of Bosque County, which serves the Waco, Texas, area and manages approximately $100 million in assets, had seen the volume of spam and spyware it had to beat back increase tenfold in four years. So when it was time for the bank to renew its Symantec AV license at the end of 2006, the timing was right to make a change.