Webroot: What is it, and why do businesses need it?

publish date: February 5, 2020

Endpoint protection, or endpoint security, is a general term that describes cybersecurity services for network endpoints, like laptops, desktops, smartphones, tablets, servers, and virtual environments. These services may include antivirus and antimalware, web filtering, and more. For endpoint protection, Intellicom has partnered with Webroot.

Endpoint protection helps businesses keep critical systems, intellectual property, customer data, and employees safe from ransomware, phishing, malware, and other cyberattacks.

Criminals are constantly developing new ways to attack networks, take advantage of employee trust, and steal data. Smaller businesses may think they’re not a target, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, small businesses with 100 employees or fewer now face the same risk of attack as a 20,000-employee enterprise.*

No matter their size, businesses need reliable endpoint security that can stop modern attacks. And since most companies are subject to some form of compliance and privacy regulations, protection for endpoints is 100% necessary to help businesses avoid hefty fines and damage to their reputation due to a security breach.

Webroot uses propriety technology to monitor, journal, and contain potential infections, even when a given endpoint is offline. Webroot uses a patented approach to preserving data and system changes. That means a compromised endpoint’s local drives may be automatically restored to its uninfected state, without reimaging.

A key advantage of Webroot’s cloud-driven, real-time approach is that the heavy processing associated with machine learning and malware discovery is performed in the cloud, not on the client device, which means most users will hardly notice Webroot Business Endpoint Protection running.

Webroot’s technology is innovative. Unlike traditional antivirus, which only has one opportunity to detect and stop a given threat, Webroot protection works in multiple stages. First, it attempts to prevent malware from infiltrating the system. If malware does get through, Webroot protection works to stop it before it can execute. Should it execute (this might happen in cases of brand-new, never-before-seen malware), Webroot protection will journal the file’s activities and undo its changes to local drives, once it’s determined to be malware.

Webroot Business Endpoint Protection delivers advanced detection, protection, and prevention against the ever-increasing number of attacks small to medium-sized businesses face. Because it’s a highly automated and effective solution, businesses no longer need dedicated security resources or teams of experts on hand to stay safe. And with fewer infections and security-related incidents, not to mention fewer remediation cases and productivity losses, businesses can focus on what matters most: growing profitably.

Intellicom chose to partner with Webroot after an exhaustive review of the endpoint protection vendor landscape, and we are glad we did! Since 2016 we have deployed Webroot to over 4,100 devices, and we have been exceedingly happy with the results. In the increasingly dangerous digital world, Webroot has helped us mitigate risk across our entire client base – and for ourselves as well!

*According to the Hiscox “2018 Cyber Readiness Report” (Feb 2018)