“When you move from a tiny apartment, it doesn’t take long and you can use a Honda Civic,” says Desktop Security Manager Mehdi Harandi, who oversees endpoint security at Fairfax County Public Schools, the 11th largest school district in the U.S. “But when you try to move from a five-bedroom house, it takes a lot more time and the Civic just won’t cut it anymore; you need an 18-wheeler.” Harandi uses this analogy to describe the impact of the exponential growth in files and data stored on the school district’s desktops upon malware scanning. With so much data on PCs these days, anti-virus scans simply never finished full scans on some of the desktops, and, in numerous cases, interrupted user productivity. The need for an “18-wheeler”—that is, much faster, more efficient scanning—drove Harandi to migrate the school district’s 125,000 desktops from McAfee Endpoint Threat Prevention to McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS), the new more collaborative, more intelligent endpoint protection framework which also provides [...]