![]() ![]() Machine Learning is next layer that the industry is incorporating and in the initial stage of being incorporated by both Sophos and Symantec. I like what Sophos is doing with the integration of multiple products, increasing the layers. The payoff is well worth the time and monetary investment to neutralize the industry leaders. Same goes for nation states with malicious intent. My issue is that with all of the money flowing into ransomware, it is well worth malware writers time to work their way around Bitdefender and Kaspersky by quickly modifying their malware, once detected. Bitdefender and Kaspersky are definitely best in class of standard AV products. J.R., I want to apologize if I did not come off well earlier. If you want to have a deeper conversation or test us out, let me know! We have trials and demo’s that are quick and easy to dive in and out of. So something else to consider, especially since easy-to-use cloud management is a big plus for you. The difference is even if malware manages to sneak its way onto an endpoint and a user executes it, Barkly will immediately see that it's trying to do something bad and stop it automatically. Barkly, on the other hand, serves as a last line of defense that steps in a little downstream - at runtime. Ex: AV aims to block malware by scanning files before they are executed. I find one helpful way to make sense of them all is to determine where their protection maps to in terms of stages of the attack. The truth is AV has its role, but there's a reason we're seeing a flood of AV alternatives. I'm biased to be sure, but that recommendation is also backed up by real-world stats and experience. Like J.R., we're seeing a lot of attacks bypass AV (for the record, we're also seeing instances of malware identifying when it's in sandboxing environments and remaining dormant, too). I might be a little late to the party, but also wanted to chime in with a +1 regarding the suggestions to consider thinking beyond traditional AV. It looks like you've narrowed things down and have already gotten some great suggestions here. This industry is changing too much and too quickly to use 2 year old tests as to why one product is superior. Heuristics from 2 years ago, ransomware detections from 9 months ago, both useless. Throw in the Sophos UTM or Sophos Next-Gen Firewall and now you can scan with Sophos and Antivir and cut off malware before it even reaches your users. They just bought a machine learning company, advanced behavior with InterceptX integration, which also includes a license to their secondary scanner, Sophos Clean, which uses Kaspersky, Bitdefender, and Sophos on the backend. That all being said both Bitdefender and Kaspersky are solid options, if only using traditional detection systems. The only true way to stop all malware is to use Sandboxing, like what CheckPoint does for large enterprise or Sophos Sandstorm for small business and then use programs like Sophos InterceptX which simulates that it is on a VM, so that malware which actively evades sandboxing will not execute. Heuristics helps, so does machine learning and advanced behavior detection but all are ultimately useless. Malware writers use services like "" which, allows them to verify their malware is undetected and can even notify subscribers when their malware is detected. ![]() Both Kaspersky and Bitdefender are solid AV programs however, neither will completely protect a system.
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