When Bishop Verot’s antivirus subscription expired, the school started to study the security market. Bishop Verot had been using Panda Security’s AdminSecure. The school was pleased with the product’s performance but sought more protection at a similar price point. “We wanted additional features that would protect our network in the event that malware made it past our initial lines of defense,” Castaldo said. With traditional antivirus software, there’s always the threat of zero-day attacks. Traditional antivirus programs rely on signatures, so if you don’t have the signature you’re at risk. Research labs can take weeks or even months to develop signatures for new threats. “We wanted security that didn’t need to know what exactly the threat was in order to provide protection,” he said. Bishop Verot considered products from Computer Associates and eTrust. Both offered more functionality – but at a much higher price. Finally, the school looked at BeyondTrust. BeyondTrust’s PowerBroker Endpoint Protection Platform (PB EPP) offers an array of security features at a much lower cost than competing security products. PB EPP protects clients by identifying behaviors, not signatures. Offering integrated multi-layered endpoint protection, PB EPP is a single, lightweight client that replaces multiple security agents, protecting against known exploits, zero day attacks, and all other attack vectors.
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