F-Secure Computer Protection is the best endpoint security solution for Windows and Mac computers, proven year after year by independent security experts, such as AV-Test.
Much more than antivirus, F-Secure Computer Protection is next-generation security. With threat intelligence and machine learning, it’s proactive protection against today’s threats, including ransomware and zero-day attacks.
Microsoft Windows is the world's most commonly attacked operating system. The ever-increasing rate of attacks proves how vital it is to protect your Windows computers against threats such as ransomware. For example, one study shows that in 2016 the number of ransomware email attacks increased by 6000%.
Windows security is at its most powerful with a multi-layered approach that includes advanced technologies—like automated patch management, machine learning, real-time threat intelligence, and heuristic analysis. These tools are just some of the features that come as standard in Computer Protection for Windows.
F-Secure Computer Protection for Windows provides powerful and efficient security for your Windows computers, going far beyond traditional antivirus protection.
Computer Protection for Windows comes with Software Updater, an automated patch management feature. It can prevent up to 80% of attacks simply by installing software security updates as soon as they become available. There's no need to install separate agents, management servers, or consoles. Patch management is the first, critical security component —and one of the best layers of protection when malicious content reaches your endpoints.
Computer Protection for Windows has received a significant security improvement with the upgrade to DeepGuard 6. It features more extensive use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, tempered with the latest insights from our analysts, cyber security specialists, and penetration testers.
In layman's terms, this means that we're taking a new, superior approach to protection. We block attacks by identifying and preventing the techniques, methods, and behaviors used in the attacks rather than relying on signatures to catch them.
F-Secure Computer Protection for Windows has received a new Premium feature, Application Control. It can block or restrict unauthorized applications from running, either based on rules created by our penetration testers, or as defined by the administrator, for example based on the application name or version. It also includes advanced detection logic to block applications from executing scripts, such as PowerShell.
You can get F-Secure Computer Protection in Standard and Premium versions.
Standard
Premium
Software Updater
DeepGuard 6
DataGuard
Security Cloud
Multi-Engine Anti-Malware
Browsing Protection
Web Traffic Protection
Web Content Control
Connection Control
Device Control
Application Control
Managed Firewall
Software Updater is an automated patch management feature that's fully integrated with F-Secure Computer Protection clients. There's no need to install separate agents, management servers or consoles.
Software Updater is a critical security component. It's the first layer of protection when malicious content reaches end-points and can prevent up to 80% of attacks simply by installing software security updates as soon as they become available.
Software Updater works by scanning for missing updates, creating a vulnerability report based on missing patches, and then downloading and deploying them automatically or manually if needed. Security patches include 2500+ 3rd party applications such as Flash, Java, OpenOffice and others that commonly serve as attack vectors due to their popularity and larger number of vulnerabilities.
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.
F-Secure 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.
F-Secure DataGuard is available in Computer Protection Premium.
The F-Secure Security Cloud is our own cloud-based threat analysis system. It utilizes Big Data and Machine Learning, among other input, to continuously add to our knowledge base of digital threats. The Security Cloud is constantly in touch with client systems, identifying new threats as they emerge and providing protection within minutes.
A cloud-based threat analysis service affords many benefits over traditional approaches. We gather threat intelligence from hundreds of thousands of a large number of client nodes, building a real-time picture of the global threat situation. Within minutes, we use that knowledge to protect our customers.
For example, if DeepGuard's heuristic and behavior analysis identifies a zero-day attack, the information is shared with all protected devices via the F-Secure Security Cloud—rendering the advanced attack harmless mere minutes after initial detection.
For more on the functions and benefits of F-Secure Security Cloud, consult our technical whitepaper.
Our computer security component utilizes our multi-engine security platform to detect and prevent malware. It offers superior protection to traditional signature-based technologies:
Browsing Protection is a key security layer that proactively prevents end-users from visiting malicious sites. This is particularly effective, as early intervention greatly reduces overall exposure to malicious content, and thus attacks.
For example, Browsing Protection will prevent end-users from being tricked into accessing seemingly legitimate phishing sites, accessing malicious sites through an email link, or getting infected through malicious 3rd party advertisements on otherwise legitimate sites.
The feature works by fetching the latest reputation check of the websites and their files from F-Secure's Security Cloud, based on various data points such as IP addresses, URL keywords and site behavior.
Browsing Protection is fully browser agnostic, as it works at the network level. This ensures that it still provides protection even if the end-user is not using company sanctioned browsers.
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 F-Secure 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.
Web Content Control allows restriction of unproductive and inappropriate Internet usage. It can restrict employee Web browsing, denying access to non-work related destinations such as social media and adult sites to maximize time or and avoid malicious sites.
Web Content Control reduces productivity losses, bandwidth consumption and legal risks caused by unauthorized employee access to inappropriate or distracting Web content. It also greatly reduces chances of employee exposure to malicious content.
IT administrators can make local exceptions that override enforced categories. As an example, if social networking sites are restricted, you could add Linkedin.com to the trusted sites list as an exception.
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 F-Secure 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.
Device Control prevents threats from entering your system via hardware devices such as USB sticks, CD-ROM drives, and web cameras. This also prevents data leakage, by allowing read-only access, for example.
When a prohibited device is plugged in, Device Control turns it off to prevent user access. You can block access to devices by setting predefined rules, and set rules to allow specific devices while all other devices of the same class are blocked. You can for example:
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:
Finally, you can use it to block applications from running scripts, for example:
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.
The new F-Secure firewall uses the default Windows rule engine to execute firewall rules. This greatly increases compatibility with other applications and appliances. The F-Secure 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 F-Secure 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.
The diversity of today's endpoints means you need to secure more than just Windows PCs. 55% of businesses are now Mac-friendly,* and when the user base increases, attackers follow. Attacks on Macs are increasing, and your business needs to be ready.
Computer Protection for Mac includes multiple defensive layers that together, provide powerful protection going well beyond traditional anti-malware. Artificial intelligence, machine learning and real-time threat intelligence zone in on the most evasive threats. Computer Protection for Mac also takes advantage of modern MacOS security capabilities for peak effectiveness, without sacrificing usability or performance.
*Source: Parallels
F-Secure Computer Protection for Mac brings you the latest in multi-layered security, going far beyond traditional antivirus protection.
Computer Protection for Mac has received a significant security boost through our new XFENCE technology. It intercepts files accessed by applications and processes, and checks them against the threat intelligence provided by our Security Cloud. This allows XFENCE to prevent errant processes, ransomware, and other malware from meddling with documents, executables, and system data. It can even detect microphone and webcam snooping.
F-Secure Computer Protection includes XFENCE, a unique security capability for Macs. It protects Macs against malware, trojans, back doors, misbehaving applications, and other threats by preventing applications from accessing your files and system resources without explicit permission.
The tool leverages advanced rule-based analysis to monitor apps that attempt to access confidential files and system resources, enhanced by the threat intelligence provided by Security Cloud to minimize false positives and user interaction through allow/disallow prompts.
The F-Secure Security Cloud is our own cloud-based threat analysis system. It utilizes Big Data and Machine Learning, among other input, to continuously add to our knowledge base of digital threats. The Security Cloud is constantly in touch with client systems, identifying new threats as they emerge and providing protection within minutes.
A cloud-based threat analysis service affords many benefits over traditional approaches. We gather threat intelligence from hundreds of thousands of a large number of client nodes, building a real-time picture of the global threat situation. Within minutes, we use that knowledge to protect our customers.
For example, if DeepGuard's heuristic and behavior analysis identifies a zero-day attack, the information is shared with all protected devices via the F-Secure Security Cloud—rendering the advanced attack harmless mere minutes after initial detection.
For more on the functions and benefits of F-Secure Security Cloud, consult our technical whitepaper.
Our computer security component utilizes our multi-engine security platform to detect and prevent malware. It offers superior protection to traditional signature-based technologies:
Browsing Protection is a key security layer that proactively prevents end-users from visiting malicious sites. This is particularly effective, as early intervention greatly reduces overall exposure to malicious content, and thus attacks.
For example, Browsing Protection will prevent end-users from being tricked into accessing seemingly legitimate phishing sites, accessing malicious sites through an email link, or getting infected through malicious 3rd party advertisements on otherwise legitimate sites.
The feature works by fetching the latest reputation check of the websites and their files from F-Secure's Security Cloud, based on various data points such as IP addresses, URL keywords and site behavior.