One of the most important tools for ensuring the safety of your small business’ servers is your antivirus application. In a world that has gone hacking-mad, there is no better defense.
Now, whether or not you host your applications on your own servers, you should make sure that you have the best choice(s) that ensure all angles and loopholes are covered. If your hosting provider allows it, you should implement your own anti-virus software on top of theirs. Just make sure that your choices aren’t too resource-intensive or your providers might refuse to accept it.
Below we will see some of the best anti-viruses on the market today. We hope it will help with your choice and make it easier for you to choose from.
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AVAST!
This product from the Czech Republic has been around since 1988 (in one form or another and from a very humble beginning). Today it has over 200 million users all over the world.
Avast! has small businesses versions that can be implemented for free. Apart from acting as an antivirus program, it helps with curbing web threats and can integrate with your web browser. The whole application can be controlled and administered using a cloud management console. This antivirus is one of the lightest ones on the market today.
Avast! can be implemented in a PC and/or MAC environment.
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AVG
Anyone that has heard of AVG will almost always make note of the fact that it is probably better known for being free for personal use. Well, that and the fact that it is one of the best antivirus software packages out there.
AVG’s Internet Security Business Edition is, like all its products, very easy to install – in fact, it is so easy, you won’t even need any help doing it yourself (it is one of the things that the company is quite proud of). You can scan and remove viruses from infected devices remotely – by even using your mobile devices.
AVG comes in PC, MAC and Android (for mobile devices) versions.
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Symantec Endpoint Protection
Symantec Endpoint Protection can be considered the Mercedes of the antivirus world: it is heavy duty (can get rid of almost any threats from outside), has many features that you do not find in comparative antivirus packages, is resource intensive and it comes at a price that is a little bit stiffer than the average.
Endpoint covers your cloud security, has encryption capabilities, SSL/TLS certificates for absolute security of your data while it is in transit and even has a “Shopping Guarantee” to help your repeat customers and buyers remain protected.
And so, if you really mean business, this is the option to go with, but you will need to make sure that you have the server space and power as well as the budget for it.
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Kaspersky Small Office Security
Kaspersky comes to the world from Russia and has around 250,000 corporate clients as well as more than 300 million individual users across the world.
This company’s product enables you to protect your devices (laptops, desktops and servers) against malware attacks as well as phishing and other internet attack risks. If your business relies on Android devices for its data transactions, Small Office Security will make sure they are protected through its anti-theft feature.
Apart from these features, the package offers secure online banking, data encryption and advanced password management.
The only drawback with Kaspersky is the price tag – it is more of a fit for small businesses that have a larger IT budget.
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Bitdefender Small Office Security
Bitdefender is another European company with one of the most popular antivirus packages on the market today. Once you subscribe for this company’s application, you have control over your whole domain – be they on your LAN, in the cloud or in remote locations.
One of the exciting features of this package is the fact that you are kept up to date in real time. The dashboard offers a Control Center where you can see malware activity, statuses, top 10 detected malwares on your network and the status of your devices’ current protection level.
Whether or not you have implemented cloud technology, this award-winning antivirus solution is one of the best choices out on the market date.
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F-Secure
Finland’s F-Secure is one of the most efficient antimalware and antivirus software packages. Tests done by various experts and labs have shown that it is one of the most efficient solutions on sale today. It has proven to be a good defender against a large selection of viruses and malware (more than most of the better known companies).
However, the two most often raised complaints against this otherwise superb software is that it doesn’t include a web-based protection and the initial installation requires an expert’s help as it needs to be rolled out to the client machines.
If you can get over these two hang-ups, then this is the software package for you.
Do you have a better business solution? Let us hear about it.
