The Top 11 Endpoint Security Solutions For Business

ESET is a market-leading vendor in endpoint security and antivirus software, known for their powerful yet lightweight cybersecurity solutions. ESET Endpoint Security is their cloud-based endpoint protection solution, designed to protect organization of all sizes against known and zero-day threats such as malware, ransomware and fileless attacks. The solution offers multi-layered protection, which admins can control with a single centralized management console. ESET Endpoint Security protects computers, mobile devices, file servers and virtual environments. It’s available as a standalone product and as a part of a wider enterprise cybersecurity bundle, ESET PROTECT Enterprise, which also includes file server security, disk encryption, a cloud sandbox and EDR.

ESET Endpoint Security combines machine learning technologies and crowdsourced threat intelligence to detect and prevent targeted malware and ransomware attacks. The solution monitors all executed apps for malicious content, based on their known behaviors and reputations. It also scans the behaviors of malicious file processes in each endpoint’s memory to discover and eliminate fileless threats. The combination of technical and human threat intelligence means that ESET’s solution has excellent detection rates before, during and after execution. ESET Endpoint Security also offers web browser protection, preventing users from downloading malicious files and enabling admins to blacklist known malicious URLs, and list URLs that need specific protection.

Security teams can manage their security across all ESET endpoints, including mobiles, via one unified cloud-based management console. This enables them to have a clear overview of their organization’s security posture.

ESET Endpoint Security is praised for being lightweight; it performs as well as any solid anti-malware engine, without the need for extra hardware and without slowing down corporate systems. Cloud-based, the solution is scalable, as well as flexible: ESET Endpoint Security is compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux and Android operating systems, with built-in mobile device management for iOS and AndroidOS. On top of this, the admin console is available in 21 languages, and ESET offers localized support in 38 languages. This makes ESET Endpoint Security a strong solution for organizations with a global workforce, as well as those with a large number of BYOD devices in their fleet.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Heimdal™ is a leading European provider of cloud-based cybersecurity solutions. Their contribution to our list of endpoint security products is their Threat Prevention Endpoint tool. At a glance, the product is a DNS security solution that blends threat intelligence, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to deliver robust threat prevention on all endpoints within your network. It can be integrated with any other solutions that are already in place and does not interrupt existing workflows. It aims to provide teams with total visibility and extended control into the network and subsequent attached endpoints. All of this is achieved via a single clean and consolidated dashboard.

Heimdal™ Threat Prevention Endpoint provides endpoint security by going beyond antivirus capabilities. It ensures safe browsing for all users, whether they’re working from home, in the office, or both by scanning traffic in real-time and blocking any suspicious or harmful domains and stopping any malicious communication. This is particularly helpful for employees on the move who may need to connect to unprotected or already infected networks, as well as protecting end users from sudden redirects to other web pages when browsing.

The product leverages endpoint DNS threat hunting capabilities, which help it detect and process any malicious URLs before tracing the threat back to the source. It also utilizes DarkLayer Guard™, a traffic filtering engine that works on inbound and outbound traffic. This feature can be customized, with admins able to set listings for the engine to refer to.

Heimdal™’s Threat Prevention Endpoint offers a complex but navigable and easy solution for endpoint security, offering a new approach in the form of AI-driven DNS. We would recommend the product for small to medium sized businesses looking for something different.

Avast are a global leader for providing cyber security solutions to businesses and consumers. Avast’s Small Business Solutions protect customers against malware and ransomware threats, alongside VPN and patch management capabilities. Avast has one of the world’s largest threat detection network and threat database, protecting over 440 million endpoints and 10,000 servers globally. This enables them to use to collect and analyze huge quantities of threat data and create machine learning technologies to stop threats against the endpoint in real-time.

Avast provides a fully-cloud based endpoint protection solution with an online management platform where you can easily configure device protection, monitor endpoints, and add new devices. Avast operate a leading anti-virus solution, offering advanced protection against ransomware and data theft. Avast also provide leading customer support, with 24/5 support delivered by experienced technical engineers. In addition, Avast also offers identity protection, with password and webcam security designed to prevent workforce accounts and devices from compromise.

The Avast Small Business Solutions platform is available in three different packages: Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Business Security. This allows businesses to choose the protection most suited to their needs. The Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Business Security tiers provide the same endpoint protection engine with antivirus and firewall components. The Premium Business Security adds a VPN and USB protection to the package. Ultimate Business Security encompasses everything from the previous packages, along with patch management.

Expert Insights recommends Avast to SMBs and enterprises looking for enhanced protection for endpoint devices with VPN, patch management and ransomware protection features.

Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Enterprise is an all-in-one endpoint protection solution monitors your endpoints, provides effective response, and advanced risk analytics. Bitdefender uses advanced, cross-endpoint correlation technologies to deploy protection across your entire organization, enabling it to identify emerging threats faster and more efficiently if multiple endpoints are compromised. Bitdefender is a trusted endpoint protection provider, protecting millions of consumer and business endpoints worldwide.

Key strengths of this solution include its highly effective threat protection engines, extended detection and response capabilities, its ease-of-management, and highly configurable deployment. The solution leverages 30 layers of threat scanning techniques to detect advanced endpoint threats. The data collected extends across all of the endpoints in your organization, allowing your team to more effectively track and respond to multi-device compromise. The platform will then provide comprehensive risk visualizations and analytics to keep relevant users informed of developments.

The platform is easy to manage and deploy, with support for endpoints running Windows, Linux, and Mac. It can easily integrate with third-party security tools, allowing teams to manage endpoints and track threats more effectively. In addition, GravityZone also contentiously assess and logs security misconfigurations and user behaviors, helping you to create baseline profiles and identify anomalies more easily.

Users praise Bitfedender GravityZone for its ease of use, strong threat protection, and lightweight endpoint client. We recommend the solution for small, mid-sized, and enterprise organizations looking for a dedicated all-in-one endpoint protection and EDR solution with powerful threat protection and seamless user management.

Check Point is a leading cybersecurity solution provider, used by more than 100,000 organizations globally. Check Point Harmony is their unified security platform, which provides comprehensive protection against advanced endpoint attacks. The platform comprises a secure web gateway, email security and phishing protection, secure access service edge (SASE), intrusion prevention, and endpoint security in a single, unified security bundle.

Check Point Harmony Endpoint is delivered as part of a comprehensive suite, (Formerly Check Point Sandblast Agent) it has a number of key features in its own right to make it a strong endpoint option to consider. The platform delivers powerful protection against advanced endpoint threats, including ransomware, bots, phishing websites, with features including password theft detection, browser protection, and full media disk encryption. The solution supports all major operating systems, including PC, servers, mobile, cloud and on-premises devices, Mac, Windows, Linux, and VDI.

The Check Point Harmony platform is delivered and managed through a single unified admin console, which supports easy integration with other security tools via API integration. Check Points anti-malware solutions are consistently highly rated in independent AV test scores, and we have found the solution to be very effective in our internal testing of the system. Check Point Harmony is an ideal choice for organizations looking to implement a consolidated security stack, with a powerful endpoint security tool to protect against advanced endpoint threats.

Crowdstrike is a market leader in the endpoint security space. They offer a comprehensive suite of endpoint protection solutions under the “Falcon” name; this also includes integrations with Crowdstrike’s other enterprise security tools like cloud security, endpoint detection and response, managed detection and response, vulnerability management, and identity protection. Crowdstrike are one of the leading vendors for endpoint protection, operating in over 176 countries and continue to grow rapidly.

Crowdstrike provides powerful protection against both known and unknown endpoint threats. The platform is powered by Crowdstrike’s leading threat intelligence platform – this utilizes AL & ML models to detect fileless and zero-day malware attacks. This results in faster remediation of threats. The solution delivers detailed, customizable alerting, and automated workflows for improving admin efficiency and reducing management overheads. Crowdstrike Falcon also gives admin the ability to implement device control policies, such as configuring controls on external USB drive usage.

Crowdstrike’s agent is lightweight, quick to deploy, and works across all major operating systems. The solution is praised by customers for its powerful threat detection and real-time alerting. Crowdstrike offers multiple packages for their Falcon endpoint protection suite, with configurations optimized for SMBs, right up to large enterprise use-cases. As a cloud-based endpoint security solution, we recommend Crowdstrike as a strong option for organizations looking for endpoint security delivered as a service, with powerful antivirus protection, flexible pricing options, and fast deployment.

Read our interview with Crowdstrike’s CTO, Zeki Turedi.

Trellix (formerly McAfee Enterprise) is a global cybersecurity provider protecting more than 40,000 business and government customers worldwide. Trellix offers an integrated, centrally managed endpoint protection suite, which includes endpoint security with threat hunting and device security controls. It also provides EDR tools with threat insights and continuous threat monitoring.

Trellix Endpoint Security uses machine learning to power advanced detection capabilities such as credential theft monitoring and extended detection and response capabilities (XDR). This provides proactive threat hunting and dynamic protection against emerging threats. Trellix’s key strengths include advanced threat investigation and remediation, enhanced visibility into endpoint devices and automated device controls. From the admin portal, policies can be configured and adapted to suit organization’s specific needs. Trellix also provides actionable threat intelligence data and predictive assessments of your endpoint environment.

Trellix delivers a unified endpoint security suite, combining endpoint security features with extended detection and response capabilities. The platform can also be integrated with your wider security stack to unify threat intelligence data. Trellix is a strong option for large enterprise environments with hundreds of remote or on-prem endpoints – the platform is highly scalable and provides automated workflows that enable you to manage all devices with minimal friction.

Trend Micro are a global enterprise cybersecurity leader, protecting hundreds of thousands of organizations globally, and stopping hundreds of millions of threats daily. Cloud One Endpoint Security is Trend Micro’s cloud-based endpoint security solution and is delivered as a single SaaS service with visibility and management in a single integrated admin console. The solution is deployed to endpoints as a lightweight agent, which provides protection against malware and ransomware. Additional admin controls (such as device management and application control) are also provided.

Trend Micro has a leading global threat intelligence platform, which assesses over 2.5 trillion data points every day to power fast, automated, and effective protection against new and emerging malware threats. Cloud One Endpoint Security leverages this data to reduce security gaps, ensuring that advanced threats are blocked quickly and efficiently with minimal device performance impact. As well as device threat protection, admins can also configure device policies, run health checks, manage applications, and run automated compliance reports.

Cloud One Endpoint Security is a fully cloud-based solution that also enables integrations with Trend Micro’s XDR and attack surface risk management platforms. The platform can integrate with additional security solutions tools such as SIEM, SOAR, and other threat intelligence feeds. The solution supports a range of deployment options and works well on cloud-workloads, servers, VMs, and containers. Users praise the service for its ease of deployment and lightweight agent that has a minimal effect on devices when installed. We recommend Trend Micro for mid-market to larger enterprise customers, looking for powerful threat protection. Trend also operates a strong partner network for MSPs and MSSPs.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cloud-based enterprise endpoint security solution developed by Microsoft and integrates closely with the Microsoft 365 eco-system. The solution protects endpoint devices against malware, device compromise, and emerging endpoint threats. The solution is powered by threat detection engines to carry out vulnerability management, endpoint detection, and investigation capabilities. Supported endpoint include laptops, smartphones, tablets, PCs, access points, firewalls, and routers.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint includes multiple threat protection technologies to protect against known and emerging endpoint threats. This includes vulnerability and misconfiguration management, network and web protection, endpoint detection and response, and automated investigation and remediation. The solution leverages native behavioral data gathered from Windows 10 to detect malicious activity. Admins can view contextual cloud security analytics, including actionable responses and intelligence on threat remediation. Management and incident response is directly integrated across Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Intune, and Active Directory.

Microsoft Defender is one the most popular enterprise endpoint protection platforms due to its strong feature set and native integrations with Microsoft’s existing eco-system. Users praise the solution for its efficiency and additional security controls. We recommend Microsoft Defender For Endpoint for Microsoft 365 and Windows-based organizations looking to deploy an effective endpoint security solution, that is easy to manage and deploy.

SentinelOne is a leading provider of AI-powered security solutions and is best known for their ‘Autonomous AI’ platform which defends against advanced and emerging endpoint threats. Singularity Complete is SentinelOne’s fully AI powered SaaS platform for endpoint protection, detection, and response solution. The platform provides powerful protection, comprehensive visibility, and automated remediation across your entire endpoint, cloud, and identity ecosystem. All these areas can be managed from a single unified admin console.

Singularity Complete brings together all SentinelOne’s highly automated, AI powered endpoint protection and EDR capabilities into a single platform, deployed via one agent installed on the endpoint. The platform delivers powerful, automated threat protection and automated remediation, fully triaged incident analysis, with comprehensive threat reporting and visibility. Admins can also configure device policies, such as network control, USB control and Bluetooth control. This feature helps to identify rogue devices already on the network using the Ranger feature, helping to prevent insider risks.

Singularity Complete is the most advanced platform package offered by SentinelOne and is designed for enterprise use cases. As such, the platform includes a fully customizable management console supporting multi-site, multi-group architecture, and customizable role-based access with wide support for data integrations. SentinelOne’s powerful endpoint security platform for Windows (including legacy devices) and MacOS is also available in other bundles, more suited to mid-market and SMB use cases.

Broadcom Symantec Endpoint Security includes endpoint security, sever security, and endpoint management capabilities. The suite is powered by Symantec’s Global Intelligence Networks – one of the largest threat intelligence networks globally. This single agent solution provides powerful protection for enterprise workforces, with flexible deployment options and comprehensive management capabilities. Broadcom is a global technology company that acquired Symantec Enterprise Security in 2019 and have positioned the service to focus primarily on the Global 2000 market.

Symantec offer a fully featured endpoint protection solution with strong threat prevention capabilities, including fileless attack protection, credential-theft protection, enhanced mobile application security, protection for cloud-connected users, and the ability to monitor then block unauthorized access. Symantec also provides intelligent AI-guided policy management to provide comprehensive automation and help SOC teams more effectively remediate against threats and manage endpoint devices.

Overall, Broadcom offer a comprehensive endpoint security solution. This service is a strong choice to consider for global enterprise customers, who can also take advantage of Broadcom’s server, data centre infrastructure, and cloud workload protection capabilities. These features operate alongside the core endpoint protection and device management functionality.