Heuristic & behavior analysis

DeepGuard combines some of our most advanced security technologies. It's the final and most critical layer of defense against new threats—even those that target previously unknown vulnerabilities.

DeepGuard observes application behavior and proactively intercepts any potentially harmful action on-the-fly before it causes damage. By switching the focus from signature characteristics to malicious behavior patterns, DeepGuard can identify and block malware even before a sample has been acquired and examined.

When an unknown or suspicious program is first launched, DeepGuard temporarily delays its execution in order to perform a file reputation and prevalence rate check, runs it in a sandbox environment, then finally executes it for behavioral analysis and exploit interception.

For more information about Deep Guard functions and benefits, consult our technical whitepaper.

Better security and compatibility

The new WithSecure firewall uses the default Windows rule engine to execute firewall rules. This greatly increases compatibility with other applications and appliances. The WithSecure expert ruleset, which contains advanced rules that counter risks such as propagating ransomware and lateral movement, is added on top of the standard Windows ruleset.

The administrator can extend the WithSecure rulesets with rules to tackle company and context-specific threats. Additionally, auto-selection rules allow administrators to define profiles adapted to the security needs of various networks.

Block malicious web content

Web Traffic Protection prevents the exploitation of active content such as Java and Flash, which are used in the vast majority of online attacks. These components are automatically blocked on unknown and suspicious sites based on their reputation data. Administrators can make exceptions to this by adding sites to a trusted sites list, for example company intranet sites for which WithSecure does not have any reputation data.

Web Traffic Protection scans HTTP web traffic in real-time with multiple complementary anti-malware scanning engines and reputation checks. This ensures that malware and exploits are found and blocked at the traffic stage, before data is written to the hard disk. This provides additional protection against more advanced malware—for example the memory-only variety.

Safe and efficient online work

Browsing Protection ensures that employees can work safely and efficiently online without worries.

• Proactively prevents employees from accessing harmful sites, links, and content
• Eliminates human error and proactively minimizes exposure
• Works with all major browsers

Elevated security for vital websites (Premium)

Connection Control is a security layer that greatly increases protection for business-critical web activity like the use of intranets or sensitive cloud services like CRMs.

As soon as an employee accesses a website that requires additional security, Connection Control automatically elevates the security level for that session. During this period, Connection Control closes network connections to all unknown sites from the endpoint. Users can continue to use sites that are verified safe by WithSecure so as not to reduce employee productivity.

By blocking untrusted connections, banking trojans and other malware cannot send criminals confidential business information such as user credentials and cloud-based information. Security returns to normal when the specified browser process finishes or the user ends the session.

Automatic patch management (Premium)

Over 80% of cyber-attacks occur as a result of outdated software. Software Updater automatically keeps your third-party software and Windows up to date and patched against known vulnerabilities. Since it's integrated, you can easily avoid attacks based on known vulnerabilities.

• Software Updater fully integrated in the solution, no infrastructure needed
• Automatically patches OS and third-party, non-Microsoft applications
• Automatically downloads and installs security patches, with a manual setting if needed

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WithSecure DataGuard (Premium)

WithSecure DataGuard subjects selected high-risk and value-critical folders to advanced monitoring and additional detection logic. It makes them significantly more fortified against ransomware, and prevents malicious and unknown applications from destroying or tampering with the data that they contain. The high-risk and value-critical folders include, for example, the Downloads folder (web downloads), document folders, temp files (email attachments), and data repositories.

The feature's complementary detection logic significantly increases detection accuracy and aggressiveness against ransomware and their encryption processes. The Data Access module ensures that the data in these folders is not destroyed, tampered with, or encrypted by malicious or unknown applications, such as ransomware. Among other benefits, the Data Access module enables the recovery of data in the event of a successful ransomware attack, as it cannot encrypt the data located in those folders.

Prevent applications from executing (Premium)

Application Control prevents threats from executing and running scripts, even if they bypass other security layers to get onto your device. This mitigates the risks posed by malicious, illegal, and unauthorized software in the corporate environment.

With Application Control you can:

• Identify and control which applications are allowed to run in your environment
• Identify trusted, authorized software automatically
• Prevent all other applications, whether malicious, untrusted, or simply unwanted from running 
• Eliminate unknown and unwanted applications in your environment to reduce complexity and risk
• Monitor all applications running within the endpoint environment

Finally, you can use it to block applications from running scripts, for example:

• Prevent all Microsoft Office applications from running PowerShell scripts
• Prevent all Microsoft Office applications from running Batch scripts

Application control works based on rules created by our penetration testers that cover attack vectors used to breach into corporate environments. Alternatively, the administrator can define the rules based on various criteria, such as the application name or version.