Name: Cylance Smart Antivirus
Rating: 8.5 (26 reviews)
Author: BlackBerry

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What is Cylance Smart Antivirus?

Blackberry Cylance offers Cylance Smart Antivirus, a Windows and Mac OS compatible smart antivirus designed to provide basic protection as well as protect against new, never before seen malware.

Cylance Smart Antivirus is Smart for some but not for all

Rating: 5 out of 10

May 5, 2022

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We used Cylance as our endpoint protection software (or antivirus). We replaced Sentinel 1 with Cylance when we switched our Managed Security Services Provider. We used it on ...

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Director

3 years of experience

Cylance, Quality AV at a great price point

Rating: 9 out of 10

May 5, 2022

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As a managed services provider we provide Antivirus for our clients. We settled on Cylance Smart Antivirus for our clients because of its next-generation AI for antivirus and ...

Shawn Gilbertson

Director - Information Technology

Director of Integration

NGEN,LLC

5 years of experience

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What is Cylance Smart Antivirus?

Blackberry Cylance offers Cylance Smart Antivirus, a Windows and Mac OS compatible smart antivirus designed to provide basic protection as well as protect against new, never before seen malware.

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Cylance Smart Antivirus is Smart for some but not for all

Rating: 5 out of 10

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May 05, 2022

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3 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Cylance as our endpoint protection software (or antivirus). We replaced Sentinel 1 with Cylance when we switched our Managed Security Services Provider. We used it on all workstations and servers, and it did keep them secure. We relied heavily on our MSSP for implementation and configuration.

Pros and Cons

Blocking Scripts
Stopping remote exploits
easy to install

Likelihood to Recommend

Cylance Smart Antivirus is a decent solution for a consumer or private setting. I would have no hesitation recommending it to my mom or grandma. In a corporate setting though, with managed workstations, it gets in the way more than it secures. It will block Windows processes like error reporting.

Most Important Features

Security
Reduce Risk
Price

Return on Investment

Too much time to manage.
Too many false positives.
Too much lost productivity.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP), WithSecure Cloud Protection for Salesforce, WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection

Cylance, Quality AV at a great price point

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 05, 2022

Shawn Gilbertson

Director of Integration

NGEN,LLC (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)

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5 years of experience

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a managed services provider we provide Antivirus for our clients. We settled on Cylance Smart Antivirus for our clients because of its next-generation AI for antivirus and antimalware scanning. It has provided to us great capabilities in order to not have issues with ransomware or viruses across our 3,000 endpoints.

Pros and Cons

Antivirus Scanning
Low Resource Utilization
Malware Scanning

Likelihood to Recommend

Cylance Smart Antivirus is well suited for the typical office user. It can be very restrictive if you do not tune it properly and can cause many issues. When tuned and set up properly it is appropriate for 95% of use cases. The last 5% are ones that have the capabilities of bringing an organization down if it is not tuned properly.