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Recent high-profile and widespread cyberattacks on local, federal, and national government entities have disrupted people, economies, and critical national infrastructure across the globe. These attacks are often reminders that reactive technologies that detect the presence of malware and then attempt to remedy the harm are no match for today’s sophisticated attacks. Antivirus and other detection-based methods fail because they attempt to monitor and parse almost infinite volumes of detection and indicator of attack data, requiring more tools, more personnel, and more skills. AppGuard is different.

If you’re a small or medium size business and think you are not big enough to be a target for cyber criminals, think again. According to Ponemon Institute, 63% of SMBs experienced a data breach in 2019. That’s because hackers are opportunistic – they realize that SMBs typically have fewer, less trained resources dedicated to fighting cyber adversaries and are more likely to pay off ransomware demands without the resources to remediate. Staying ahead of malicious actors is difficult, especially for small and mid-sized companies. Unfortunately, that challenge is even greater now that the COVID pandemic has altered the way we conduct business.

Microsoft provides a broad range of security protection and detection capabilities that protect endpoints from a wide spectrum of threats. The company’s anti-virus, Microsoft Defender, included free in every version of Windows, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoints, a full-blown Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), are widely deployed. But, even the best threat identification technologies (e.g. NGAV and EDR) cannot find and stop fast-striking, well obfuscated, or new malware, leaving a dangerous time gap.

AppGuard empowers MSSPs to provide better protection for customers with less effort and less stress. Using a ‘prevention without detection’ approach, AppGuard protects organizations from cyberattacks by disrupting malware activity from causing harm, without needing to identify malware. Instead, it protects against malware’s intended effects, regardless of the form malware takes, even as it evolves. With AppGuard in your arsenal, customers can do what they need to do, and malware will be prevented from doing what it wants to do.

Consumers and small businesses are targeted by attackers more than ever. Hackers are opportunistic. They realize small businesses and consumers often lack the tools and techniques to protect against harm, providing easy routes to bank accounts, customer data, patents, confidential health information, and more. Hackers easily bypass traditional antivirus solutions and realize small businesses cannot support complicated and expensive tools, and are likely to cave to hacker threats, particularly ransomware, since not paying ransom means shutting down the business.

A novel virus named COVID-19 is rapidly spreading across the globe. Cybercriminals have already started leveraging the fear connected with COVID-19 pandemic as a tool to spread misinformation, steal passwords, data, and harm critical infrastructure.

Labor is typically the top-line expense in a cybersecurity operation. AppGuard not only eliminates a significant portion of the products and appliances IT/Sec-Ops teams use to mitigate threats, but it also frees those professionals to work on more strategic tasks (like higher-level threat intelligence and hunting) by stopping the incidents and alerts that routinely bog IT/Sec‑Ops professionals down. Find out how AppGuard will enhance your cyber stack.

The attack landscape has changed, traditional antivirus type solutions alone no longer offer adequate protection. AppGuard empowers customers with a powerful cybersecurity solution by delivering comprehensive prevention, detection capabilities at endpoint to prevent zero-day attacks.

Endpoints are vulnerable, and defeating malware is hard. Despite increased spending on cybersecurity tools and personnel, malware continues to bypass existing security controls to gain access to endpoints. Traditional security defenses such as firewalls, secure email gateways, IPSs, signature-based solutions, and next generation endpoint protection platforms can play a role in your defense-in-depth strategy, but they continue to fall short on protecting against advanced threats and zero-day exploits.