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Our company is using Symantec, but our license expires very soon. I need to decide to continue working with it or switch to another one. We are using Windows server with more then 30 devices. And we want to protect our programs, files, email, firewall from viruses and attacks. It will be very useful for me to hear your opinion.
Thank you

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We use Withsecure and does the job perfect!

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ESET is generally solid and reasonably priced.

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We use bit defender and it works really well.

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I generally like to avoid giving a response to a generic “which is best” for this type of question, as it really depends on a lot of variables.

One of the big factors is obviously budget. Do you have unlimited budget? Probably not, but if you have do have the budget for the “big” players, that can potentially change the advice we’d give. You also need to consider what features/protection level you need.

Do you have any compliance/governance needs in your AV solution? Do you want/need “XDR” for your situation? You mentioned firewall, do you need Layer 7/application awareness for said firewall, or would a simple port on/off firewall work? Should this solution also tie into a physical Firewall, or just a software firewall? How much CPU/RAM overhead can you spare for running background services and scans? What does your current staff have experience with, and can you spare time to train on new tech/interfaces if needed?

All of those and a lot more go into a question like this, and it’s difficult to give you a meaningful answer without knowing more about your situation.

If you’ve got 30 Windows servers that don’t host public services, the built-in defender+firewall might be plenty, but if you’re storing financial or health data, it might not be the right tool.

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We use Sophos and that worked so well I also bought it for my family. That really speaks volumes to be honest. My criteria for an AV is that it is out of the way and doesn’t consume a ton of resources. Sophos isn’t as lite as something like Webroot but it gets the job done very well. From management end of things I love it to be honest.

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This.

EDR/XDR is really the standard these days (Crowdstrike, I think Symantec, Trend, even Windows Defender and others have options.) There is no “best” per se, just what’s “best” for your organization/budget/overhead.

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We’re currently using Avast Business Antivirus Pro and it works well

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I would throw SentinelONE in there as well on the XDR side. I’m not a Trend fan from experience. Others may have a different opinion.

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CroudStrike is working well for us (10,000+/- users), seems to be low overhead, easy to install. I have no idea on pricing tho. I no longer see that side of things anymore.

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Their price makes Cisco look cheap. We chose Cisco’s XDR for that exact reason. Crowdstrike is worth the money if you have the budget though.

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We moved from Symantec EPP to SentinelOne a little over a year ago, I’ve been very happy with NOT having to have a dedicated “server” for Symantec and not having to update the console and all endpoints when a new version came out, which was not trivial. There was a slight learning curve switching from one to the other since they are quite different, but overall I’ve been happy with it.

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We have used Vipre for more than 20 years.

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The real answer is that it changes all the time.

You should be using your independent labs to review them at least annually and we consider the last 5 years of data.

we like:
av-test
Home - AV-Comparatives

There are about 10 more, but I like those two the best. I especially like the AV-Comparatives false positive reports. So we can see how much of a pain they are to use.

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We have been using Symantec Endpoint Protection as well as there cloud version Endpoint Security and both seem to do a very good job at protecting our endpoints. We have also used malwarebytes, AVG and bitdefender products but wouldn’t recommend any of them do to their lack of abilities and frustrations we encountered with them. We have had several systems at different sites get hit with Ransomware and all clients were utilizing Bitdefender so I would recommend sticking with Symantec and wouldn’t recommend Bitdefender. If you are basing your move off price I believe Symantec is well priced but haven’t reviewed costs of other AV software in recent times

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If you have M365, look into the Defender suite.

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Bitdefender GravityZone or SentinelONE have both worked well for our clients. There are varying degrees of protection with both depending on your needs.

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Hello,

I do not have a specific recommendation for a program, but one thing I would suggest is checking out this HOW-TO I wrote here on Spiceworks about how to evaluate security software for your business: Evaluate Antivirus Software

It may be useful in helping you whittle things down to a shortlist, and then compare what’s there to figure out what works best for your organization.

Also, while it says “antivirus” in the title, the post itself is applicable to all security software (EDR, EPP, MDR, XDR, or whatever other initialisms are being marketed today).

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

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Crowdstrike Falcon!

It has a super light weight sensor that doesn’t hog resources and it runs along side of the standard version of Windows Defender.

The management console if pretty impressive too. It exposes so much more information if there is an incident that you just don’t get to see with a standard AV program.

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Kaspersky definitely the best by a huge margin.

Generally avoid all “AI” driven nonsense like crowdstrike it’s plastered with AI buzzwords and “cloud” nonsense.

AI=No intelligence. A qualified Human Intelligence can trump all Artificial Intelligence defences within 60 seconds.