Panda Security

Panda Security still counts EMEA as its primary market, with U.S. and Latin America distant second and third, respectively. Recent wins with large clients are promising, as most of Panda Security's existing client base continues to be small organizations with fewer than 500 seats.

Panda Security's Adaptive Defense 360 incorporates traditional EPP and EDR solutions as a single offering, providing continuous monitoring and prevention of endpoint-based activity.

Panda offers EPP, email, web gateways and PC management capabilities — all delivered within a cloud-based management console. SMBs that are seeking easy-to-manage, cloud-based solutions should consider Panda as a good shortlist entry in supported geographies.

STRENGTHS

Panda Security's Adaptive Defense product provides a good blend of endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and adaptive defense capabilities across a wide breadth of Windows environments, as well as some OS X, Linux and Android variants, at an aggressive price point that will have strong appeal to SMBs.

The automated classification process using machine learning provides real-time or near-real-time analysis of all running executables for suspicious activity. It also provides detailed forensics.

Managed whitelisting is available for embedded systems, including point of sale and ATMs.

Panda's traditional malware detection includes several proactive HIPS techniques, including policy-based rules, vulnerability shielding, anti-exploit protection against commonly attacked software (such as Java) and behavior-based detections. Trusted Boot ensures that all boot

elements are trustable on restart, and administrators have granular control to modify policies or add exclusions.

Panda uses a hybrid of machine learning, cloud database look-up and services to detect the latest threats.

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