Even so, it’s worth the wait as Panda came back with a heap of valuable information about files residing on our clients that contained PII. You can choose to index only text files but if you opt to index everything on each client, the first run will take many hours and possibly a day. To scan and index Office documents, each Windows endpoint requires the Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0 installed which we downloaded straight from the AD360 portal. The data control component is fully integrated into the web portal and uses profiles to determine what it should search for. Panda Adaptive Defense 360 review: Data control If users try to reboot their system during this process, they’ll receive a pop-up message advising them that patching is in progress. Panda then just gets on with the job of patching and provides a task status view that shows which clients are patched and those in progress.
Tasks are used to deploy patches and include client groups, a schedule, selected patch groups and third-party products from the software inventory that you also want patched. Profiles determine a scan frequency of between one hour and once a day and after scanning all our clients, Panda created a list of available updates separated into five criticality levels along with non-security related and service pack groups. Panda Adaptive Defense 360 review: Patch management When you’re ready, you can set it to ‘hardening’ mode which will block unknown external programs until they’ve been assessed, while the ‘lock’ mode includes all local apps as well. Initially, you run the advanced protection in ‘audit’ mode where it gathers information about your everyday apps.
These are used to define active security services, firewall rules and update frequency while web filtering offers over 60 categories to block or allow and can use daily schedules to determine when it was active.
Either way, it only took us a minute to load it on each of our Windows 10 clients after which it contacted the cloud service and applied all our predefined settings.Īll endpoints are dropped into a default group with a base security profile for immediate protection but you can easily create your own groups, each with a set of custom profiles. This scans the network and presents a list of all discovered devices, where you select them and push the agent out remotely.
A quicker option for installation on the LAN is to install the agent on one machine first and designate it as a discovery computer.
Panda Adaptive Defense 360 review: Deploymentĭeployment is undemanding, thanks to endpoint agents for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, which can be downloaded from the portal or emailed as a web link. It keeps track of all activity and can tell you what each user has been doing with these files such as opening, editing and renaming them, sending and receiving them via email or copying them to removable media. The data protection module scans protected endpoints using machine learning algorithms and regular expressions to detect PII content in a wide range of file formats. Exchange servers are supported too, and AD360 provides separate antivirus, antispam and attachment content filtering components. It doesn’t stop them from running permanently though Panda’s cloud service checks the app’s security posture in the background and, if it’s deemed to be safe, will instruct the endpoint client to allow it through.ĪD360’s endpoint protection features are extensive, including file, email and web antivirus, a firewall, web filtering and removable device controls for Windows systems. AD360’s advanced protection module analyses and classifies every application being run on Windows endpoints and only blocks those it doesn’t know about.