App Review Comparative Entreprise AV : CrowdStrike - Cynet - SentinelOne - Trend Micro Apex

[cartaphilus]

Today, we’re comparing four security solutions: CrowdStrike, Cynet, SentinelOne, and Trend Micro Apex.
Let’s see how well they protect the system!



Quick summary:

All four security solutions passed the URL test with flying colors.
However, when it comes to the full-system scan, it’s a different story.
Only CrowdStrike leaves a machine virtually unscathed.
Cynet, SentinelOne, and Trend Micro all fail against the same attack: a Wipper malware that destroys the system and the MBR.
Special mention also goes to Trend Micro, which was THE WORST antivirus because not only is it resource-intensive, but it also let a nasty worm slip through before the Wipper (Unicorn.exe). !

@kamiloxf request

At this point in the IT universe I no longer care about who won this round or that round what I care about is consistency across time. Just like eating at McDonalds; is it the best burger out there? Far from it! But the burger you get will taste virtually the same regardless where you get it; be it in NYC Bronx or Osaka Japan, a cheeseburger from MCDonalds and fries from McDonalds will taste like you expect them to taste. That's what sells, not the flavor of the month, the consistency of knowing what to expect and have your expectations met. This permits you to leverage that consistency to deploy mitigation strategies against the strengths and weakness of a given solution. With a solution being all over the place, one day 100% the other day 75% then few months from now 95% etc etc I won't know what surprises will pop up next.



My personal experience with threat submission to ESET; they don't really acknowledge the receipt or reply with analysis, it just gets fixed.

 

[cruelsister]

Yep

Never fails to amaze me that this was thought to be a good thing. A friend a few tears ago extracted that code snippet and incorporated it into a malicious file (used for High and Noble purposes, of course...).