I use Atera and am deciding which antivirus I should go with.
Anyone have experience using both and which do YOU believe to be better…
I have plenty of experience with both.
There is zero reason to use Acronis over Bitdefender. None. You will get far more options, features and functionality from using GravityZone directly. Plus, Acronis’s “Security” is a kind of garbage. For example, it reports that not having a VPN on a domain controller is a security risk. That is Geek Squad level stuff.
Get GravityZone through Pax8 and skip Acronis.
I prefer BD over other options for a host of reasons, but top of the list is that BD can be configured to Zero Trust unknown files. It will execute unknown files in a cloud sandbox for evaluation before allowing them to run on your actual network. When Karl clicks on a link or email attachment and that process tries to evade protection or tries to disable EDR/AV, that happens offline and just isn’t allowed on the endpoint. I wish everything did this.
It also has a host of other security suites built into it. Malicious DNS blocking, Ransomeware rollback, vulnerability/CVE scanning, user behavioral analysis, endpoint misconfigurations, web content filtering, USB/storage blocking, application blocking and some other things. There are dedicated products that can easily replace what BD offers here, but BD’s offerings are still pretty good and if you don’t have anything they fill the gap nicely.
Optional addons like disk encryption, patching, file integrity, MDR, XRD, EDR, etc. Don’t skip on ATS and EDR though, get them for every endpoint. This pretty much goes for any security suite though.
The downside, as someone else mentioned: the UI is fairly clunky and the learning curve is bigger. The manual and online information are pretty good, but it takes some time to learn the policy settings and get things set up how you link them.
Good luck to you.
Why not SentinelOne via Pax8?
I really dont like the web interface and setup of new clients within the Acronis Cyber Protect cloud. It is WAY to cumbersome in my opinion.
We’ve had too many issues with Acronis Backup to consider them for security. The demos looked great, reality has been very different.
I had a customer get ransomware and Bitdefender didn’t even throw a single fucking warning. Was running on every single machine that was infected and it didn’t detect a single fucking thing. I’d rather die than pay for such a worthless software.
Bitdefender is pretty solid besides gravity zone being clunky and outdated interface wise. If you are going Bitdefender I assume you are adding the EDR/Advanced Threat?
As a security engineer for a top 100 MSP with ~60k endpoints under management, I think they’re both garbage products personally
Acronis is just rebranded Bitdefender with an easy to use interface.
Sentinel one we just went to.
I also use Atera, many years. Ive tried Acronis for backups, and it had AV as well. as others have said, they NICKEL AND DIME you to death, and make it not clear. When it says “workload” they dont tell you that ANY functionality is a *cough cough* workload. and you need a few to get running lol. S1 for AV and protection. BD if you decide to not have a choice.
Avoid acronis the AV is lacking and the backups are slow and they nickle and dime you to death. Want to test backups in a vm? Well not you have to pay for hot storage as well. The only good thing is the startingof BMR from inside windows instead of having to bootload.
Why not just use Windows Defender. As an AV, it’s rated the best produced in the market.
Having a de ug session with Acronis now, and looks like they are communicating with BitDefender servers now somehow. As part of the debug process they tried stopping bddci which is BitDefender thing, and specialist confirmed the connection.
Atera isn’t quite mature yet it seems like.
S1 doesn’t cost that much.
S1 with Vigilance is only 8$ per month
Would you be willing to share the setting / section your referencing for setting up zero trust unknown files? Does it have an add on needed for that part? I e. Hyper detect, ats, EDR… Etc
Nice write up. Keep in mind, the learning curve on more feature rich products is always bigger because there’s more things to learn.
BD is crazy on sucking up resources when it bugs out
SentinelOne with Vigilance is 