One Giant Leap for Integrated Security
In June 2020, WatchGuard acquired Panda Security, enabling customers and partners to consolidate their fundamental security services under a single umbrella, backed by the top quality of service that’s a core a part of both companies’ DNA.
WatchGuard’s endpoint security services have traditionally focused on extending network security to protect employees while off-network using DNS-level protection, multi-factor authentication, and a few network security features packaged together in their easy-to-buy WatchGuard Passport offering. With Panda’s comprehensive endpoint security platform, WatchGuard have added endpoint protection AV services and innovative EDR capabilities furthering their vision to deliver advanced threat detection and response functionality fueled by modern AI capabilities, behavior profiling techniques, and cutting-edge security event correlation, and extra operational benefits like centralized management across network and endpoint security.
Adaptive Defense 360 Improves on Traditional AV with EDR Technology
Designed for maximum protection with minimal complexity, the company’s flagship product, Adaptive Defense 360 (AD360), is designed and easily packaged to require the guesswork out of endpoint security.
| Traditional AV | Adaptive Defense 360 |
|---|---|
| Based on signature files | Based on behaviour intelligence (Big Data + Machine Learning) |
| Only detects known malware | Protects against all threat types including known and unknown malware, APTs, fileless attacks and any other malicious behaviour it detects |
| Only sends alerts about the things that it knows to be bad | Managed service that continuously monitors, logs, and categorises 100% of running processes even if they are initally deemed trustable |
| Basic protection | Prevention, detection, and remediation |
| Offers no information about the attack | Detailed forensic information, security audit and real time alerts |
| It works when malware gets into the endpoint, but doesn’t monitor process activity | Comprehensive visibility into all endpoint activity |
Early Access Program
Panda’s AD360 product is selling successfully within the market today with over 10 million endpoints operational . While WatchGuard will complete the important work to align their business systems and merchandise resources, the early Access Program gives WatchGuard partners and therefore the ir customers a quick start enabling them to profit from AD360 and the Advanced Reporting Tool (ART) while leveraging Panda’s existing infrastructure.
Panda’s Adaptive Defense 360 (AD360) offering is that the company’s Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) suite, which combines next-generation antivirus protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), patch management, content filtering, email security, full disk encryption, and more, into one package. The AD360 platform touts a singular 100% consulting service that certifies the legitimacy and safety of all running applications due to a combination of automated, AI-driven processes and investigation services provided by their team of malware analysts. Additionally, businesses can centrally manage all their AD360 clients using Panda’s Cloud-based Aether platform.
Cytomic is Panda’s Enterprise and MSSP focused security offering. Powered by Orion, a cloud-based threat hunting platform, Cytomic may be a sophisticated endpoint protection platform that automates and standardizes the processes of investigation, detection, prevention, and response. Users can manage their Cytomic deployment through Nexus, a complicated, cloud-based management and reporting platform.
Dome is Panda’s consumer-focused endpoint protection suite, which mixes traditional antivirus with other endpoint security services, including parental content filtering, personal data protection, private VPN, password management, remote access, and more.
