AppGuard stops the malware that AV, EDR & XDR miss

Malware makes headlines because it evades AV, EDR, XDR and other pattern matching technologies.

Adding AppGuard to your security stack, ends the ineffectiveness of accruing evermore malware detection tools that still fail to stop the latest malware attacks. AppGuard protects you, not by doing more of the same a little differently, but by taking a completely different approach, blocking malware techniques instead of relying on detection or AI or ML to make an educated guess if something is harmful or not. This defeats what others miss entirely or detect much later.

With AppGuard, enterprises get better protection, fewer alerts from detection tools and need less cyber labor; all this without slowing endpoints, and without creating more chaos than value.

Expect more from Attack Surface Reduction than AI

CEO Fatih Comlekoglu put it best: “You can’t keep trying to tell good from bad among infinite possibilities. Not even the most magical AI can parse infinity.” The industry is trapped in a futile chase, piling on detection tools and adding AI enhancements that still fail to close the foundational gap.

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AppGuard is the essential layer in your defenses

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Makes existing defenses better

Stops attacks that AV, EDR and XDR miss by not allowing what malware needs to do instead of having to recognize the malware itself.

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Reduces cyber chaos and costs

Stops attacks in real-time, before EDR can even generate an alert to be investigated or a mess that needs to be cleaned.

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Lightweight and Lite Operations

One-fifth the footprint of Defender; typically runs months without any policy tuning and produces no “detect & react” alerts.

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Protection from your Apps

Hackers use your Apps to harm your systems. AppGuard's dynamic containment prevents adversaries from using your applications to do harm when they are unpatched, zero-day exploited, or hijacked by weaponized documents.

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Auto-Adapts to Change

Unlike application control and other tools that require constant policy updates, AppGuard auto adapts to application updates and malware technique permutations; even when you are offline.

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Stops Malware, Not Users

Users are able to carry on as usual, most don't even know AppGuard is there, except when they try to do something IT/Sec-Ops doesn’t want them to do!

Currently protecting tens of thousands of organizations and millions of endpoints:

“Dramatically reduced the cost of endpoint security measures”

Akihiro Wada

All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. General Manager, Information Security and Infrastructure Strategy

“AppGuard has consistently demonstrated the ability to protect our environment when other solutions couldn’t.”

Global CISO

Large Enterprise, Healthcare Industry

"I wish AppGuard had been available as part of my armoury when I was the Commanding Officer of the MOD's Cyber Defence Unit"

David Woodfine

MD, Cyber Security Associates & former Commanding Officer of the MOD’s Cyber Defence Unit

"AppGuard should be your first and main line of defense in an increasingly dangerous cyber and human threat environment"

Mark Kelton

CIA Former Deputy Director for Counter-Intelligence

“With AppGuard we’ve had no incidents, and now have peace of mind knowing that our critical infrastructure is secure. AppGuard is a cost-efficient and effective solution.”

Director of IT

Global Law Firm

“AppGuard should be on every Windows system in the world”

Bob Bigman

CIA Former CISO

Zero Trust Endpoint Security Solution Company of the Year 2024

AppGuard emerged as a Zero Trust Endpoint Security Solution Company of the Year 2024 after an exhaustive evaluation by an expert panel of C-level executives, industry thought leaders, and the editorial board of Enterprise Security magazine.

 

Headlined Malware & Techniques Stopped by AppGuard

ProxyLogon

ProxyShell

PetitPotam

Log4Shell

PrintNightmare

ProxyNotShell

Kaseya

SolarWinds

Follina (MSDT)

ZeroLogon

EternalBlue

NotPetya

CCleaner

Mimikatz

SmokedHam

LockFile

AvosLocker

Black Kingdom

WastedLocker

LockBit

EnvyScout

RootSaw

TinyTurla

Ryuk Ransomware

ASEAN

Mustang

Bad Rabbit

GandCrab

WastedLocker

IceID

DarkSide

EnvyScout

Zloader

WhisperGate

DarkWatchman

HermeticWiper

Daxin Espionage

Emotet

IsaacWiper

CaddyWiper

HermeticWizard

BlackCat Ransomware

ALPHV Ransomware

Clop Ransomware

Bumblebee

Batloader

Graphite Implant

Cuba Ransomware

Akido Wiper

FARGO Ransomware

Conti Ransomware

Qbot

Redline Stealer

Rhadamanthys

Malicious ISO files

Malicious Code Load

Weaponized Documents

Malicious Services

Zero-Day Exploits

Missing Patches

Mouse-over Techniques

Go-based malware

Rust-based malware

Malicious VHD Files

Drive-by Compromise

Phishing

Ransomware

USB Thumbdrive

Malicious Scripts

WMI

Malicious Executables

Advanced Persistence

Privilege Escalation

Memory Scraping

Credential Theft (Memory)

Browser Credential Theft

LOLbin

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