Yes, HEAT is expected to have paid versions. I am in talks with 2 payment processors: Stripe and Go Cardless.
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Paid versions already? Getting a little ahead of yourself. If your going to charge you have to prove it's protection or get an audit.
Good luck. When will we get a chance to try out the programs? What antivirus engine does it use?
I am waiting for Microsoft’s vetting process for digital signature at the moment. HEAT is deployed on a few systems as of January but I will not release it till it matches my quality expectations, I am in no rush. It is a lot of work but I love doing it. I haven’t watched series now for more than a year
SOS will be the scanner from Defender Hardening Console with one square button. So not much to do there.
These products are not yet another OEM antivirus with the Avira engine (I did not approach Avira for partnership at all).
And they are not yet another AV with questionable AI models.
Script emulation is powered by Check Point whilst file reputation is powered by Sophos and CrowdStrike. Botnet intelligence is Sophos.
I am currently in talks with Bitdefender and could potentially phase out Sophos in favour of that.
There are many local heuristics as well and Yara rules will appear soon.
Web Marshall uses a proprietary AI model, I had a massive collection of harvested phishing and scam store websites so the model was trained with 6 epochs, that one is cloud-only.
To prevent every website from being sent out from the user machine, there is a bloom filter with over 1.5mln safe domains.
In my products, every piece of information has many more than just one usage though.
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Will that be the end of Defender Hardening Console ?
Defender management will remain part of the overall security posture (and manual management will be available too). The automatic management will adapt Defender to whatever you are doing at the moment. When a suspicious site is detected, Defender settings will go up, when you are playing a game, the game files will go to exclusions and Defender notifications will be disabled. When you are installing trusted software, some ASR rules will be disabled.
It is not the end, it’s a migration and a free version will remain available.
This is more information about the engines:
Branding and user experience play an extremely important role.
HEAT has dedicated OOBE (Out of Box Experience) and a signature sound profile. I’ve spent 2 months on the sounds alone.
There is a signature HEAT soundtrack for the official presentation which will be on the website.
Walk Through Cybertown (Hello HEAT).
Shame the likes of McAfee for example & others with huge resources can't manage a GUI anything like yours, makes you wonder why??
No idea
I am free from all the corporate nonsense, managers and so on.
I’m the boss
Even though before I started making the UI I created a 30-page guideline. The OrbitUI 2.0 features more animations than ever so it puts the GPU to good use. There is one-off animation for most objects, followed by a continuous animation.
The frameworks were also carefully chosen, alerts are based on a framework that can render them in a few milliseconds.
And will you keep the Defender Hardening Console? Will that be a paid service? Or what are your plans for it?
@Trident some comments about the sound track for your (portfolio) presentation.
When I listened to the soundtrack, it raised questions, so this is what I asked ChatGPT:¨ "What are the best practises for streaming a sound track under a presentation on your website, in regard to tempo/beats per minute and the time needed to browse through say a 10 to 20 slides presentation?" and it confirmed some of my doubts.
When I listened to the soundtrack, it raised questions, so this is what I asked ChatGPT:¨ "What are the best practises for streaming a sound track under a presentation on your website, in regard to tempo/beats per minute and the time needed to browse through say a 10 to 20 slides presentation?" and it confirmed some of my doubts.
It sounds quite good pushed to the back by the voiceover in the video and there is quite a lot to say, so the video is expected to be 3:20 but we’ll see. I may switch to another track last minute.
The Defender management will remain free but will be integrated within the HEAT portfolio.
No idea
The frameworks were also carefully chosen, alerts are based on a framework that can render them in a few milliseconds.
I can give some clues having sold IT-solutions to large corporations:
IT-managers like simplicity, therefor they prefer to limit the number of vendors, for no-hassle problem solving ease (vendors blaming each other, saying it was not me), they also like to limit the number of interfaces between software, services and frameworks, for ease of rights and access management (security), scalability (more services/frameworks from different vendors require more connected performance upgrade heart beats), easier acceptance and regression testing (easier to check the full chain of events or processes), easier backup restore (data integrity is simpler to maintain within systems than between different systems), they often prefere gold standards over a best of breed set of standards.
I noticed one member reacting with
as though it would be impossible for smaller companies to outsmart large companies (just google on skunkworks approach of Lockheed Martin and you will understand why small is bieutiful when it comes to innovation)
In terms of UI, AVs in the past 7-10 have significantly cut down on investments and it can be seen that most of them have been dragging the same UIs (or slightly modified) for quite some time.
In addition, what they prefer is not a design that wows, but design that covers “all the industry standards” and “industry standards” is just a more beautifully-sounding way for “cheapest, easiest to find developers for”.
In addition, what they prefer is not a design that wows, but design that covers “all the industry standards” and “industry standards” is just a more beautifully-sounding way for “cheapest, easiest to find developers for”.
i would think the typical Widows user really does not care much about the UI anyway, if they ever get to see that is when surrounded by all the junk (news weather ads) they also have to put up with as they are not enlightened as the likes of MT member are
I disagree, even if you “do not care about the UI” per se, the UI is the visible part (the only visible one), so it leaves lasting impression.i would think the typical Widows user really does not care much about the UI anyway, if they ever get to see that is when surrounded by all the junk (news weather ads) they also have to put up with as they are not enlightened as the likes of MT member are
An inferior and poorly designed UI can make users feel that the rest of the product is the same, whist a UI that wows can leave users with the impression that they are using an advanced and well-designed product.
UI is very very important. If it's I move on quickly. UI needs to be done well, together with usability experience it's right up there with what I prefer to use.As with anything perception is the major driver force, if a UI looks right as Trident says people will feel they are getting their money worth.
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