Cylance Review

How Cylance Smart Antivirus meets the 5 criteria?

1. Threat Protection

Threat Protection
It’s vital to understand how well any antivirus protects against threats, and normally AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, and other big testing labs’ result are a solid way to find out. That’s not an option in this case since Cylance hasn’t been tested by any of the major labs for a few years. However, in the custom tests, held by PC Mag and TechRadar Cylance Cybersecurity matched the top score among products tested with their own malware collections. Cylance scored 9.3 of 10 possible points.

Malware Protection
Classic antivirus software typically works by comparing a bunch of files to a long list of known threats which has to be updated continuously. Cylance Smart Antivirus operates differently and intelligently. It identifies behaviors of “would-be” attacks and prevents them before they can ever happen. The system doesn’t detect threats by their file signature, but rather using its ‘artificial intelligence engine’ to identify threats proactively.

Web Protection
Cylance does not attempt to keep the browser away from malware-hosting URLs. The logic behind this, as the Cylance representatives explain, is that “the bad guys can quickly change URLs and IP addresses, forcing web-blocking technologies to chase after constantly moving targets.” However, Cylance does check all downloads so if you try to launch the downloaded malware, Cylance will quarantine it immediately.

2. Resource Consumption

The unique approach utilized by Cylance greatly reduces any impact on your system performance. Smart Antivirus doesn’t have to regularly download massive definition files, for instance, or overload your hard drive to run full system scans.
The lightweight software uses only a fraction of the system resources on the computer, allowing consumers to play games and watch videos without the performance impact that other antivirus solutions cause. Unlike traditional antivirus, Cylance’s AI technology does not require constant signature updates to keep you safe against the latest cybersecurity threats. Lack of excessive features and annoying pop-ups contribute as well to the discreet and seamless user experience and hands off protection in a “set it and forget it” manner. Cylance Smart Antivirus self-updates, so you never have to worry about being protected. It proved lightweight by modern standards, with Smart Antivirus usually requiring less than 180MB of drive space, and its two background processes generally using under 60MB RAM.

3. 24/7 Real-time Scanning

Predicting threats before they execute – means a faster machine as there is no need to constantly scan all of your files. Cylance Smart Antivirus does not do a traditional background threat detection, and will only scan active and opened files and processes. If a file on a secondary drive like an external hard drive is opened/copied/moved, this will trigger a process attached to the file at while point the Cylance Smart Antivirus Agent would scan it.
It doesn’t even have a manual scan activation: all you really have to do is leave the program running, let it scan the files and programs as they’re accessed or launched, and any threats should be blocked before they can cause any damage. Otherwise, the software just runs silently in the background until needed.

4. Extra Protection Features

The lightweight package and minor resources consumption have its price: there’s no VPN, for example, URL filtering, no adware or spam blocking, no special banking protection, no password manager, no file shredder or any of the other extras you’ll often see elsewhere.

The major benefit of this AI-type approach is that it should be better able to immediately identify brand new and undiscovered threats. While others are waiting for updates to their definitions – which can only arrive after the threat has been recognized, too late for those who’ve been infected – Cylance Smart Antivirus aims to be smart enough to pick up on new dangers as soon as they appear.

5. Platforms/Devices Accessibility

Cylance Smart Antivirus is compatible with the latest versions of Microsoft Windows and Mac OS laptops and desktops.

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