Taking a step back, lets review what a antivirus program is and how things have evolved over the years. 

Antivirus programs popped up nearly 50 years ago as a reaction to fixing hardware and software bugs. These bugs evolved over the years into intentional acts. Quickly born was an opportunity to provide antivirus software solutions. Antivirus solutions spread from business to business and home to home, becoming a traditional must-have for every computer.

Over the years, naturally, everything evolved. What started as innocent threats 50 years ago has become criminal, sinister, and vicious today. 

Traditional antivirus solutions had their day and did it well to offset threats. However, old-school ways are outdated, outpaced, outperformed, and unreliable. 

So why is that? Traditional solutions require definition updates to keep software updated and protected against threats. They require human intervention to identify, create a fix or patch, and then package it as a defination update. Basically a lot of hands-ons, which was possible with minimal threats per day recognized.

As of December 2020, Kaspersky published 360,000 new malicious files detected per day. Its impossilbe for traditional antivirus solutions to keep up.

Today’s world requires a solutions that is agile enought to adapt on the fly. Most people would refer this to an Artifical Intelligence (AI) approach. Intelligently being aware by identifying, recognizing, and adapting to on the fly is essential to ward off, protect, and heal affected files. 

Strange as it is, its become the current norm. 

I recommend and referr our clients to use an EndPoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution. SentinelOne is the obvious choice.

Recommendations

I recommend and encourage our clients to use an EndPoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution to protect their systems. SentinelOne is not only an industry recognized world leader but a preferred corporate environment solution. Its an obvious choice.

We offer SentinelOne within our computer protection solutions, as a standalone solution and within or Fortified package.

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• SentinelOne
• Cynet
• CrowdStrike
• Carbon Black
• Symantec EDR
• Cybereason
• Palo Alto Networks XDR
• Cisco AMP
• FireEye HX
• McAfee EDR

History Note

The first antivirus solution came about in 1971 due to a virus called Creeper infecting mainframe computers. Antivirus software for the public didn’t take off until the late 1980s. In 1991, Symantec, Norton, launched its first antivirus solution, followed by AVG and ESET.