
The business of managing and securing desktops is in a serious need of an overhaul! Today’s polymorphic threats aren’t confined to the data center. Hackers have moved their attention beyond the boundaries of the data center and perimeter-only protection are ineffective speed bump to viruses, worms, trojans, and botnets.
According to a recent report, up to 90 percent of security breaches could be prevented by simply keeping machines up-to-date with the appropriate patches.
2008 Data Breach Investigation Report,
Verizon Business RISK Team
What’s required is real defense in depth. Organizations need to patch and properly configure their physical and virtual machines but also ensure that antivirus protection is installed and up-to-date. But the AV industry is dominated by a few players whose offerings leave IT administrators frustrated with solutions that are bloated, buggy, and broken. They just don’t stop malware.
Shavlik NetChk Protect Plus Antivirus bundles best-in-class Patch Management with Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE AV engine in an easy-to-use, unified platform to simplify and automate the top IT management challenges faced by today’s IT environments. A single Agent that deploys patches and delivers AV + Antispyware protection. Enterprise IT capabilities without the enterprise cost or complexity.
You can’t manage what you can’t see. Managing and securing the desktops that attach to your network begins with dynamic and thorough discovery of all your desktops, laptops and virtual machines, including those pesky and nearly invisible offline virtual machines. Shavlik’s Asset Management leverages our innovative blend of Agentless and Agent-based technology to provide a dynamic, up-to-date method to track your software, hardware, and virtual assets. You will discover physical and virtual machines you didn’t know you had and uncover software applications you didn’t know were installed.
Gartner Report: Top 10 Steps to Avoid Malware Infections by, Peter Firstbrook
“The volume of malware is growing so rapidly that endpoint protection vendors are now releasing 30,000 new malware signatures per day. These signatures must get distributed rapidly to all endpoints, even those that are off the LAN.”
Shavlik’s industry leading NetChk Protect gives customers a single Agent for patch management, antivirus + antispyware, and active protection. The extremely flexible NetChk Agent eliminates agent bloat by consolidating these critical tasks and reduces the management overhead required by deploying and managing multiple agents. With antivirus + antispyware technology that has been architected for today’s threats, Shavlik makes it fast, makes it light on system resources, and makes it stop malware.
Shavlik’s Patch Plus simplifies and automates critical IT operations for both physical and virtual machines including asset discovery and inventory, patch management, configuration management, power management, compliance auditing, and antivirus + antispyware protection all from an easy-to-use unified platform.