Heimdal Foresight does specific things that are important, and not covered by most (if not all) security solutions. Whoever tested it here as mentioned, it actually did pretty good I thought, wasn't it 14 or 16 out of 20? Also, without validating each link for true maliciousness, and vetting of the test I wouldn't pay too much heed to it.
Heimdal business model of free/discounted deals seems to have served them well enough to hire new engineers, hire more support staff and open a second office, and license Avira technology and increase their valuation by quadruple in a couple of years so they seem to be doing something right.
I respect Heimdal's heuristic and ML based traffic scanning for sure. But I really like their DNS protection systems in place. But the most impressive thing I like are their prowling of the dark web forums and dumps to find threats almost nothing else finds, before they quantify them. In testing of the newest, most relevant threats in our labs Heimdal was always in the top 5. For example this is a great ML grab from Heimdal;
Also, even utilizing Pi-Hole and other 'lists' you'll often find that if you drill down - up to 40-60% of the sites are no longer active so the lists are essentially obsolete within hours, rarely more than days, but are continuing to be blocked because their curation of them is poor and doesn't factor TLD deprecation. Heimdal is almost always extremely relevant, moreso than other solutions.
The machine above was formatted 48 hours ago, and Heimdal grabbed 22 threats that bypassed a layered security of 4 other solutions. Not bad if I do say, especially since Heimdal also slightly increases DNS resolution speed on a local machine due to the 10,000 IP cache on the encrypted local loopback resolver.
I don't really care about Vigilance at this point, possibly when a lifetime comes out, but it's not really needed by me so I don't pay any mind to it.
Heimdal business model of free/discounted deals seems to have served them well enough to hire new engineers, hire more support staff and open a second office, and license Avira technology and increase their valuation by quadruple in a couple of years so they seem to be doing something right.
I respect Heimdal's heuristic and ML based traffic scanning for sure. But I really like their DNS protection systems in place. But the most impressive thing I like are their prowling of the dark web forums and dumps to find threats almost nothing else finds, before they quantify them. In testing of the newest, most relevant threats in our labs Heimdal was always in the top 5. For example this is a great ML grab from Heimdal;
Also, even utilizing Pi-Hole and other 'lists' you'll often find that if you drill down - up to 40-60% of the sites are no longer active so the lists are essentially obsolete within hours, rarely more than days, but are continuing to be blocked because their curation of them is poor and doesn't factor TLD deprecation. Heimdal is almost always extremely relevant, moreso than other solutions.
The machine above was formatted 48 hours ago, and Heimdal grabbed 22 threats that bypassed a layered security of 4 other solutions. Not bad if I do say, especially since Heimdal also slightly increases DNS resolution speed on a local machine due to the 10,000 IP cache on the encrypted local loopback resolver.
I don't really care about Vigilance at this point, possibly when a lifetime comes out, but it's not really needed by me so I don't pay any mind to it.
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