ESET Endpoint Security - Detailed Review

ESET Endpoint Security Overview

ESET Endpoint Security is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that integrates advanced features and AI-driven technologies to protect business endpoints. Here are the main features and how they work:

Antivirus and Antispyware

ESET Endpoint Security includes antivirus and antispyware capabilities that eliminate various types of threats, such as viruses, rootkits, worms, and spyware. It uses cloud-powered scanning, which leverages a file reputation database in the cloud to whitelist safe files and ensure faster scanning and better detection of in-the-wild viruses while minimizing false positives. Only information about executable and archive files is sent to the cloud, and this data is not personally attributable.

Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS)

HIPS allows you to define rules for system registry, processes, applications, and files. It provides tampering protection and detects threats based on system behavior. This feature enables you to customize the behavior of the system and its components, block unauthorized actions, and use detailed HIPS logs for compliance auditing and reporting.

Auto-Scan of Removable Media

This feature automatically scans devices and media for malware upon insertion, offering options to start scanning automatically, notify the user, or not scan at all. This ensures advanced protection against offline threats carried on USB drives, CDs, DVDs, and other devices.

Component-Based Installation

You can install specific security components such as firewall, antispam, web control, device control, Microsoft NAP support, and web access protection. This allows you to deploy only the desired protection modules for each group of endpoints, ensuring optimal system performance without wasting resources.

Client Antispam

The antispam feature effectively filters out spam on endpoint devices and scans all incoming emails for malware. It supports white/black lists and self-learning capabilities and integrates natively with Microsoft Outlook to enhance protection without additional user effort.

Web Control

Web Control limits website access by category, enabling you to create rules for user groups to comply with company policies. It automatically classifies websites into categories via a cloud-based service and allows you to block sites that generate high traffic, conserving company network bandwidth and enforcing Internet acceptable usage policies.

Device Control

Device Control blocks unauthorized media and devices from the system, allowing you to set rules and parameters for specific media, devices, users, and clients. It provides detailed access and scan logs, simplifying policy enforcement and compliance reporting.

Trusted Network Detection

This feature provides stricter protection when clients connect to new or unauthorized networks, such as public Wi-Fi. You can define trusted networks, making all other connections default to strict mode, thus protecting users and their data from Internet threats.

Two-Way Firewall

The firewall prevents unauthorized access to the company network and provides anti-hacker protection and data exposure prevention. It comes with easy setup, powerful customization rules, and an intelligent learning mode. ESET Remote Administrator simplifies aggregating firewall rules across the network.

Advanced Threat Defense

ESET’s Advanced Threat Defense uses cloud-based prevention against ransomware and never-before-seen threats with autonomous remediation capabilities. This feature proactively detects and responds to threats, ensuring timely remediation and preventing breaches and business disruptions.

Extended Detection and Response (EDR)

The EDR capability, enabled by ESET Inspect, proactively detects threats, identifies anomalous behavior in the network, and realizes timely remediation. This cloud-based tool provides outstanding threat and system visibility, allowing for fast and in-depth root cause analysis and immediate incident response.

AI Integration

ESET employs two distinct forms of Advanced Machine Learning: a high-powered detection engine in the cloud and a lightweight version on the endpoint. These use classification algorithms like deep learning and boosted trees to ensure swift and precise analysis of emerging threats. The AI-powered detection correlation engine in ESET Inspect automatically generates incidents, significantly reducing the time dedicated to investigation and incident management.

Full Disk Encryption

ESET offers a robust encryption solution for system disks, partitions, or entire devices to achieve legal compliance. This ensures that sensitive data is protected even in the event of device loss or theft.

Mobile Threat Defense

This feature provides security for Android and iOS mobile devices, including antimalware, anti-theft, and Mobile Device Management (MDM) capabilities. It helps protect the mobile fleet within the organization from various threats.

Integration with SIEM Tools

ESET Endpoint Security integrates with major SIEM players like IBM QRadar SIEM and Microsoft Sentinel. These integrations enable threat data from ESET to be ingested by these SIEM tools, providing visibility and actionable insights to enhance enterprise security. This integration automates data transfer, correlates endpoint data with cloud security, and streamlines incident management. These features collectively ensure that ESET Endpoint Security provides a comprehensive and proactive cybersecurity posture, leveraging AI and advanced technologies to protect business endpoints effectively.