During 2020 important changes had to be made in people's lives. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic context, the connection with our colleagues, family and friends changed forever. All of this change involved one factor: technology.
Adapting the infrastructure of each person's home to create their personal office was part of the problem to solve. Different environments: old furniture, not proper desks, and no one has specific ergonomic chairs and of course computers. Then you must have a good internet connection, and what happened with the security measures in order to work? We need to ensure the integrity of the information, as well as that there is no undue entry by someone outside the company.
In the following article we explore different alternatives for your company or business on how to keep your information safe. There are alternatives for each structure and budget on endpoint protection for your equipment.
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In the best escenarios, all the laptops and computers from the office will be installed into the colleagues home. But, What happens if we have to use our old personal computers or maybe some laptop from the kids?
Why an endpoint security software?
If your company has several employees working from home, using their personal computers, your antivirus software will not be enough defense against potential attacks.
If you decide to hire an endpoint service, several layers and defenses will be created to prevent attacks and information leaks. You've heard it before, because it's true: Better safe than sorry.
Endpoint Protection Basics
The employees will use their own equipment, some will use some devices provided by the company, but the most important thing is to be able to guarantee the security of the information with endpoint protection. Most of the attacks come from apps, documents, PDF, emails, Flash or Java embedded in the webpages. The threat is over there. We have to do something.
The endpoint architecture allows protection barriers to be installed in just one place: the company's servers, without having to install software on employees' or colleagues' computers. There is only one place to carry out configurations and updates, focusing the work of the IT team.
The main advantage of using this type of service is that it allows everything to be managed from the same control panel, from cyber security, firewalls, user privacy, elimination of potential malware and backup protection for rescue on different computers.
Some users will have Windows, others Mac, all need solutions for their different options, also sometimes accessed from tablet or phones.
Some services may offer corporate VPN, data and information encryption, password management, etc.
Different options for your security
Avast Business Antivirus Comprehensive endpoint protection for Windows
The Avast Business is a easy-to-use platform with three alternative:
Business Antivirus Business Antivirus Pro Business Antivirus Pro Plus
The Avast service offers: AntiVirus, browser protection, a remote control panel for the configuration, email protection, anti-spam , firewall and a Sharepoint and Exchange protection. as well as a number of tools for your servers.
This is one of the basic and good options for Windows users.
ESET Endpoint Protection Advanced Cloud A comprehensive software for your company
If you have a small and medium-sized business the ESET’s Endpoint Protection software is perfect.
The easy to manage and useful tools of the ESET Endpoint Protection Advanced Cloud is one of the most important advantages. The ESET company offers a suite for different platforms: Windows. macOs, Android, iOS and Linux, giving the chance to remote deploy of the security measures.
The package comes with firewall, antivirus, ransomware protection and anti-theft options.
The ESET company is constantly monitoring the endpoints of their clientes. If they detect some ransomware attack or some exploit alert, they have the ability to disable or report the incident with the IT team of your business. This kind of system is called Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS).
Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Advanced A suitable endpoint security solution
Trend Micro Worry-Free Services works with Windows endpoints, macOS, Android and iOS systems. This service offers antivirus, email protection, privacy scans, cloud App Security and a Full Disk encryption.
One of the bad points is about the lack of support for Linux endpoints and a lot of the security measures are Windows-only.
The scanning system covers everything: scanning before and during the execution of the process. In and out files, from your servers through your colleagues computers or mobiles.
The AV scanner detects malware, cryptocurrency mining attacks , ransomware, and more.
The service use machine learning techniques to keep updated all the endpoints security layers.
your endpoints secure. Thanks to these techniques it can identify and block communications of malicious apps.
Bitdefender GravityZone Advanced Business Security Good, nice and cheap
Bitdefender is one of the most secure systems in the market during penetration tests.
The system allows endpoints in Windows environments, macOS, Linux.
They include AV, firewall, user control, remote management and browsing protection. The bad news: no mobile device support
This company has good marks for malware detection and removal, the standard for this kind of security packs. The URL filter, the anti malware and firewall work automatically (previous setting up in their control panel, like restrictions access to specific websites or apps, blocking info, data and sensitive information).
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