Constructing an impenetrable network security posture warrants implementing multilayered defenses across people, processes, and diverse leading technologies. As cyber threats rapidly evolve in sophistication, resilience demands regularly revisiting controls and response plans. Schemes leveraging social engineering, like phishing emails, regularly bypass traditional perimeter solutions, warranting robust Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) toolsets. While no silver bullet singularly thwarts all attacks, layering controls provides defense in depth. As part of regular reporting, DBAs need to outline residual risk levels across attack vectors, driving remediation and training to address identified gaps. I outline the top 10 antivirus and EDR solutions for securing network infrastructures and endpoints below.
1. BitDefender GravityZone
BitDefender GravityZone cloud-based console centrally orchestrates effective threat prevention, detection, response, and hardening across physical and virtual servers and endpoints. Leveraging cybersecurity telemetry from 500 million sensors, GravityZone capitalizes on pooled global threat intelligence to rapidly address the latest attack vectors. GravityZone remediates compromised machines through quarantining, blacklisting, or reverting to known clean restore points. Detailed dashboards and reports provide admins full visibility into security posture. For resilience, BitDefender sandboxes suspicious executables pre-execution to gauge threat levels.
2. ESET Protect Platform
The ESET Protect platform unifies prevention, detection, response, and reporting within a single pane of glass. Spanning network security, email security, endpoint protection, and full disk encryption, ESET enables responding to threats targeting endpoints swiftly. Advanced ML algorithms, sandboxing, and threat intelligence empower ESET to detect stealthy fileless and malware-free attacks other solutions miss. To enable timely response, admins can isolate infected endpoints quickly and reconstruct attack kill chains through recorded event logs and forensics data.
3. TitanHQ
TitanHQ secures email and browsing across networks through integrated offerings including SpamTitan email filtering, WebTitan DNS filtering, and ArcTitan email archiving. Leveraging threat intelligence from 550 million mailboxes, dual AV engines proactively block the latest phishing, malware, ransomware, and spam campaigns. Admins can tailor filtering thresholds balancing security and productivity needs. WebTitan blocks unauthorized access to malicious domains via DNS blacklisting while allowing safe browsing. ArcTitan archives emails for compliance while enabling swift search during investigations, audits, and eDiscovery requests.
4. Malwarebytes
Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection and Response secures endpoints across Windows, Macs, Chromebooks, Linux devices, and servers through signature-less technologies. Harnessing four specialized detection engines and AI models, Malwarebytes identifies malware and PUPs other solutions miss. Streamlined workflows enable isolating infected endpoints with a click. Malwarebytes further detects and negates sophisticated ransomware and exploits targeting endpoint vulnerabilities. Beyond antivirus and anti-malware, it scans endpoints for misconfigurations acting as security gaps.
5. Kaspersky
Kaspersky’s multilayered offering detects threats across networks, mail servers, endpoints, mobiles, and IoT devices powered by HuMachine ML and global threat research. Kaspersky Anti-Targeted Attack Platform detects sophisticated threats employing tactics like lateral movement or dwelling pre-attack. Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response goes beyond malware detection by analyzing suspicious host activities, validating risks of unrecognized executables pre-execution through sandboxing, and enabling threat hunting. Admins can swiftly isolate infected machines and malware variants can be reversed and engineered in-house to devise remedies.
6. Avast Business
Avast Business CloudCare UEM platform centralizes visibility and control across endpoints, Wi-Fi networks, and mobile devices. Cloud-based AV with regularly updated definitions blocks viruses, spyware, ransomware, phishing, and malicious links through intelligent scanning. Enforcing firewall policies shields endpoints from unauthorized network access. Optional add-ons provide sandboxing, shareable secure remote access to devices, vulnerability assessment, patch management, and remote control over devices. Layers of defenses mitigate the risk of breaches via unpatched vulnerabilities or lost devices.
7. Sophos
An industry leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, Sophos offers synchronized security ensuring consistency of protection and policies across endpoints and wireless networks. Intercept X with anti-exploit technology and deep learning AI neutralizes advanced threats like ransomware other solutions can miss. Sophos XDR provides unified visibility and protection spanning cloud workloads, endpoints, email, mobile devices, and wireless infrastructure through centralized threat intelligence. Syncing EDR across all protected assets enables rapid response by isolating compromised endpoints. routines leverage process DNA fingerprinting to detect stealthy attacks despite masquerades.
8. Trend Micro
Trend Micro Apex One protects endpoints via multiple techniques including signatures, heuristics, machine learning, variant protection, census checks, behavior monitoring, and sandbox analysis. Unknown threats are validated within isolated virtual environments by observing IOCs through file, process, registry, network, and memory behavior analysis. Detected threats can be automatically isolated from other network assets for swift containment. Trend Micro Vision One network defense provides visibility and protection across email, endpoints, cloud workloads, and networks supplemented by threat investigation and response.
9. SolarWinds
SolarWinds RMM and MSP toolset encompasses endpoint protection, patch management, asset inventory, monitoring and alert response across customer endpoints. Anti-malware with configurable rules protects against viruses, spyware, and ransomware while AppControl lists whitelist authorized good programs blocking unauthorized executables. Firewall protection limits endpoint exposure to network attacks. Patch assessment scans model endpoint vulnerabilities while automated patch deployment hardens assets. Desktop priority protection minimizes user disruption from scanning activities by optimizing CPU usage. Detailed centralized reporting provides admins with threat response insights.
10. Perimeter 81
Perimeter 81 Secure Network as a Service converges networking and security across endpoints, mobile devices, offices, data centers, and cloud environments onto a zero-trust platform delivered from the cloud. Micro-segmentation, encryption, and Zero Trust Network Access enable secure access while limiting lateral movement post any breach. Perimeter 81 antivirus inspects both inbound and outbound traffic to block malware entry and exit vectors. DNS filtering blocks access to known malicious domains via IP blacklisting. Agentless and agent-based integration options make Perimeter 81 easy to deploy across complex heterogeneous environments. The multi-layered security platforms outlined above integrate prevention, detection, response, hardening, and insights – spanning networks, endpoints, emails, clouds, and mobile devices.
