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What is BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT)?
Cylance, a Blackberry company since the early 2019 acquisition, developed their flagship business antivirus and endpoint protection software in CylancePROTECT, featured in business and home editions boasting artificial intelligence guided protection. BlackBerry Protect is a post-acquisition evolution of CylanceProtect.
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A Great Anti-Virus Program
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CylancePROTECT | Genius
Cylance vs the wild, wild internet
Artificial Intelligence AV that PREVENTS Ransomware!
Antivirus made easy that WORKS
Cylance AI EndPoint Protection can drive your security strategy.
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Don't lose sleep over Virus Protection.
The defender of our computers
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- Malware Detection (6)9.090%
- Anti-Exploit Technology (6)9.090%
- Centralized Management (6)9.090%
- Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (6)4.040%
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What is BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT)?
Cylance, a Blackberry company since the early 2019 acquisition, developed their flagship business antivirus and endpoint protection software in CylancePROTECT, featured in business and home editions boasting artificial intelligence guided protection. BlackBerry Protect is a post-acquisition…
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Endpoint Security
Endpoint security software protects enterprise connected devices from malware and cyber attacks.
- 9Anti-Exploit Technology(6) Ratings
In-memory and application layer attack blocking (e.g. ransomeware)
- 4Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)(6) Ratings
Continuous monitoring and response to advanced internet threats by endpoint agents.
- 9Centralized Management(6) Ratings
Centralized management supporting multi-factor authentication, customized views, and role-based access control.
- 6.3Hybrid Deployment Support(3) Ratings
Administrators should be able to choose endpoint security on-premise, cloud, or hybrid.
- 8Infection Remediation(5) Ratings
Capability to quarantine infected endpoint and terminate malicious processes.
- 8Vulnerability Management(4) Ratings
Vulnerability prioritization for fixes.
- 9Malware Detection(6) Ratings
Detection and blocking of zero-day file and fileless malware.
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What is BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT)?
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- Business Problems Solved
BlackBerry Protect, also known as CylancePROTECT, is a widely used antivirus and endpoint protection solution. It is utilized by organizations to maintain their security posture without the need for background scans or frequent definition file updates. The software's internal AI-powered system can detect both known and unknown threats effectively. Users appreciate its lightweight client that doesn't consume excessive system resources. Since implementing CylancePROTECT, users have reported no instances of ransomware and commend its algorithmic approach to scanning files. With its reliable protection capabilities, CylancePROTECT has become a valuable tool for businesses in mitigating and preventing attacks, particularly in the case of ransomware.
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(1-9 of 9)Cylance: Great Endpoint Protection
- Behavior analysis
- Integration with SIEM
- Chaotic upgrades
- Time consuming exception management
A Great Anti-Virus Program
- Easy installation
- Lightweight
- Auto updates
- Can be hard to setup.
- Blocks a lot of stuff out of the box that are used daily in companies.
- Hard to resolve issues sometimes.
CylancePROTECT | Genius
- Reduces management stress due to higher levels of security assurance.
- Reduces administrative time spent on console review and remediation.
- Low resource utilisation, CPU, Ram, Disk.
- Would like to see more granular control of USB.
- More descriptive intel/info for alerts, eg: reasons why behind the algorithm.
Cylance vs the wild, wild internet
- Easily managed from the cloud portal.
- Doesn't require a connection to the cloud to be totally effective against threats.
- Very easy to deploy in a domain environment.
- Very easy to administer.
- Notification when or if a threat is detected.
- The client itself is protected from being stopped at the local PC level, a common thing that most threats do is stop the AV service from running.
- Very easy to track what your top threats have been and mitigate them.
- The dashboard is very clean, almost too clean. Could use some additional information made available.
- Client over the past few years is getting fat.
- Better logging and explanation of threats is needed.
Antivirus made easy that WORKS
CylancePROTECT impressed us both in its small footprint, very low resource utilization, and the fact that it is a machine-learning solution, not reliant upon frequent signature updates as other solutions are. We handle a routine update of the version of software roughly every quarter, and the rollout upgrade is handled directly and easily through the CylancePROTECT management portal.
- Fast and Unobtrusive, users hardly notice that Cylance is running on their computer, except when it detects something malicious
- User interface is simple for end users, and the management interface is streamlined and easy to get started with. The management interface has a quick tutorial that comes up upon first login that explains all the different aspects of how to configure CylanceProtect.
- Customer support is fantastic - in that if you get stuck or need help understanding a feature/setting, they are quick to respond and help to ensure that your configuration is set as optimal as possible for your scenarios.
- It's a struggle to find negative things to find - but as with any product, cost is a concern. CylancePROTECT is a bit more expensive than some of the other solutions out there, which can be a tall hurdle to get by.
- Easier subscription to news and support topics - it would be helpful if Cylance auto-added any users with accounts to the management portal to be automatically subscribed to updates and support notifications - rather than us needing to hunt and subscribe to forum posts and constantly updated knowledge-base articles.
- It's a very simple install.
- The admin console is easy to use.
- It's lightweight on the endpoint side.
- The support site needs some more technical notes on how-tos.
- Sometimes with the alert emails we get, we are not sure if it's a legit alert, as what it cited as an issue is hard to understand. It lists a GUID of something and not an actual file.
- If something is quarantined, the end user doesn't know when that happened. Only an admin is able to tell that.
Don't lose sleep over Virus Protection.
- CylancePROTECT does not require constant signature file updates or connectivity to the corporate network or internet based update servers to remain effective. It utilizies a much smarter algorithm to detect common behaviors that malicious software uses.
- CylancePROTECT is managed through the cloud, so does not require an on-premise management server that the agents need to remain connected to for the protection to be effective.
- CylancePROTECT uses much less computing resources while operating on our end user devices and virtual servers, preserving these resources for business related purposes.
- It would be great if there was a way for an administrator to make a file as safe from the end user device when a false positive has occurred (which is rare). At present and administrator has to log into the web console, create an exception and then wait 60-120 seconds for this to be effective on the end user device, still great, but this can be frustrating for users that are urgently trying to use the file.
- Executive reporting could be better. Just a single page dashboard report that could be included in other monthly reporting.
The defender of our computers
- Can detect zero-day threats
- Takes very minimal processing power and memory
- Maintenance free
- A bit pricey
- Can stop some dev tools from working (but can tweak it so it doesn't)
Because Cylance is based on an algorithm it can protect from zero-day unknown attacks like ransomware. Any business should be taking precautions never run into a situation where they may be able to get hacked by ransomware.
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- Identify threats on files
- Scan for files and analyze for threats
- Alerts and reporting
- Central management server