The most obvious of these sacrifices is the performance degredation. Traditional AV software comes with a performance impact, and you may have resigned yourself to accepting excessive use of your limited virtual resources any time the software is scanning, updating, or even idling. Worse yet, when it steps up to do its job for you, it can often times have negative repercussions in terms of what happens resource-wise.
And if you try to fight the performance impact with an agentless antivirus system, historically, you should be prepared to sacrifice the quality of your security instead. If you're going with an agentless antivirus system, you can't scan virtual memory, which is right where many types of malware try to hide. Thus, you recoup performance at the expense of security.
You have better things to do than worry about how your antivirus software is going to impact your virtual environments.
So what is an IT person to do? Enter Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection and 12 reasons why you should make the switch:
1. Easy to Deploy Agent - less than 750kb in size.
How often do you see an agent smaller than the size of its own screen capture? If you took a screenshot of the interface, that screenshot would actually be bigger and bulkier than the program itself. Webroot's size allow you to free up that storage space for what you really want to be using it for instead of tying it up with a security product.
2. Lightning Quick Installs
Per Passmark Benchmark tests, WSA installs in less than 6 seconds.
3. Blazing Fast Scans
23 Seconds or Less (per Passmark Testing). How's that for performance?
4. Low System Resource Usage
15% CPU or less, and that's during a scan. Many competitors struggle to attain that level when sitting idle.
5. And When It's Idle...
0.06% of CPU at idle time - so insignificantly low, you'll never even notice it's there.
6. How About RAM Usage?
0.4MB of memory in use when idle and 1MB during its most intense scan.
7. Support for VMware, Citrix, and MS Hyper-V Virtualization
We've got you covered no matter which one you're using.
8. Optimized Virtualization Performance
Development works rapidly to ensure our software is always performing as well as it possibly can in virtualized environments.
9. No Signatures - EVER
It's cloud-based, meaning stress is handled by us, in the cloud, and not on your machine. No definition updates, no worrying about whether or not the latest def update is going to try to quarantine your operating system, and no delays in receiving the protection you deserve.
10. Instant Support Access
24 x 7 x 365 global support. Not that you'll need to use it often, but it's always there for you. We can afford to do this because the service is just that good.
11. Operational Risks? Not with Webroot.
Definitions are interesting things. Done properly, they can serve as a reasonably effective means of protecting your computer. Done wrong, and well, they can do something terrible like this instead. Cut the defs out of the equation, and you cut that operational risk.
12. No Compromise
Forget that agentless AV. The concept of an agentless antivirus system is to minimize performance impact. However, it does this at the expense of sacrificing some of your security. With WSA's amazing performance benchmarks, there is simply no truly observable impact to your systems. That means you get full protection and not just some.
So don't wait any longer. Switch to https://community.webroot.com/t5/forums/editpage/board-id/ent2/message-id/216/is-draft/Thank you. http:/www.webroot.com/En_US/business/secureanywhere-endpoint/?utm_source=community&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=bus today.