Breach Prevention Blog

Microsoft Defender Antivirus suffers from a perception problem. For the first decade of its existence, starting with its 2006 release, Defender was a much-maligned piece of software that no business would use to protect its endpoints. That’s no longer the case. Defender has today evolved into a competent and competitive endpoint security platform backed by one of the world’s largest companies. This improvement didn’t happen by accident. 

For the first two decades of the internet age, from the early 1990s to the 2010s, high-quality antivirus software that blocked the most malware came at an appropriate premium. After all, the endpoint was—and still is—of the primary attack vectors for cyber threats, so it stands to reason that antivirus could charge a premium to secure your endpoint. 

We recently introduced Morphisec Guard, a full endpoint protection platform designed to secure your enterprise against the worst cyberattacks. Guard is a single lightweight offering, including world-class antivirus, together with the market's most advanced protection against unknown zero-days, fileless attacks, exploits, and evasive malware.