CylancePROTECT Valuable Features
I've found the AI engine in CylancePROTECT to be particularly effective for technology and in preventing unknown threats.
The product is easy to implement and deploy.
View full review »The solution’s AI is its most valuable feature. The tool is great once you get to know it.
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CylancePROTECT
April 2024
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CylancePROTECT is a proactive antivirus system, and I can't rely on a reactive system.
It actively monitors the behavior and activity of processes and will, without hesitation, terminate at root anything it determines to be suspect.
In essence, it will just terminate malware, even disguised malware. It will also occasionally terminate legitimate software that's trying to update, but at the same time, you can check in the dashboard. It has a very accessible and easy-to-read, and understandable record that tracks everything it does. It actively monitors what's going on.
So if you download the wrong software package, or you click the wrong link and run something, even if your computer does not detect something wrong, Cylance will notice that there is something off about it and will terminate it for you.
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Gordon Powell
OT Cyber Security Principal Consultant at Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
The non-daily requirement to update signatures is the most valuable feature. From a functional point of view, it is pretty spot on. For instance, we compared an algorithm from five years ago to today's algorithm, and it was 98% accurate. It has the ability to detect and mitigate.
In the industrial environment that we work in, there's what we call OT versus IT. You are IT Central, but this is OT. Generally, we don't have the same level of skillset as IT individuals or IT professionals have. This particular product doesn't require you to be a computer scientist to be able to understand its proprietary algorithm and to be able to deploy, use, and work within it. It integrates well with a robust SIEM or SOAR solution, and it plays nice with others. We use other detection solutions like CyberX or site provision with Cisco, and it plays nice. That's one of the things we really liked about it.
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KenCameron
Managerial Agent at PD Centre
The most valuable feature of CylancePROTECT is the support.
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Andrew S. Baker (ASB)
Cybersecurity & IT Operations Professional (VirtualCxO) at BrainWave Consulting Company, LLC
The CylancePROTECT agent is very low on CPU usage, so it has virtually no adverse impact on my servers, desktops, or workstations.
I am also quite impressed with its ability to protect systems against zero-day threats due to the machine learning algorithm, which powers its database. Databases, as old as 2015, are able to accurately detect 2017-era threats, such as WannaCry and other ransomware.
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reviewer1120536
Solutions Development Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
What I like most about Blackberry Protect is that it's easy to deploy. As an end user, you won't need to do anything.
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reviewer1138518
Director of IT Operations at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cylance is quite lightweight and does not require constant updates.
The Application Guard and ByteGuard are useful features.
View full review »CylancePROTECT works on AI technology, is always up to date, and uses very few resources on your devices.
View full review »There is nothing extraordinary about CylancePROTECT since it is similar to other endpoint security tools. There is a valuable feature of the solution is called CylanceOPTICS, which is worth mentioning.
View full review »What I like best about CylancePROTECT is its accuracy, as it doesn't give many false positives.
View full review »One of the best features of the solution is that it's easy to deploy. Second is the management part and the protection. It's way ahead of the other solutions compared to the signature-based one.
The base platform, the CylancePROTECT is a very good technology. If you upgraded that into a CylanceOPTICS, that will also help, however, CylancePROTECT itself can do a lot of protection.
There's a feature that they added called PERSONA. This is AI-based user behavior monitoring which is very useful.
It's straightforward to deploy.
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Sean Muller
IT Security manager at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
The most functional item that we use is the process to turn off the false flags that it causes.
View full review »Centralized dashboard online which can be used for managing a huge product. Anything I need done can be done from a single website.
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DeAndre Valentine
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The deployment of updates is easy.
View full review »The most valuable features of CylancePROTECT are its powerful machine-learning capabilities and predictive intelligence.
View full review »What's most valuable in CylancePROTECT is the optics feature. I also like its easy-to-use and user-friendly dashboard and monitoring system.
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Orlando Barbosa
Head of Systems at SKN Caribecafe Ltda
The solution is very quick at easily changing the levels of protection for each computer and the server. It's very easy to control and to see what is happening with each computer. It's very easy to choose, which computer I can look at and check.
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reviewer1406976
Vice President Operations at a construction company with 11-50 employees
I think Cylance has just done a great job for us so far. I think that is the headliner for our experience with the product. The computer interface really has next to nothing on it, which is nice. You see what you need to see and there are really no distractions or extra noise.
We have not had anything major come up that the product has not handled — at least not that we have known of. There have been a total of zero issues.
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Donald Dindial
Owner at Terra Controls
The most valuable feature is the AI and ML-based virus protection that does not rely on signature-based detection methods. The way this product works is that it does not go to a central server to pick up the latest virus definitions. Instead, it's a processor-powered search that checks to see if anything out of the ordinary is running on your machine. It looks for anomalies and cancels processes that do not look normal. For example, if a program tries to read the registry and then make a change, but it hasn't been authorized, then it is assumed to be a bad actor and the process is canceled or the action is disallowed.
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reviewer967950
President at a security firm with 11-50 employees
In most cases, the solution's ability to detect in the MITRE framework and its ability to be able to detect attacks in any one of seven or eight different areas of the life cycle of an attack is very useful.
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CoFoundef9b2
Co-Founder, CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
On the management side, we liked the way it displays things.
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reviewer1383249
IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
This is still new to us. We have explored this solution and it fulfills our requirements, in terms of live malware detection.
We are quite security-focused. Blackberry Protect as an endpoint solution for our service really delivers what we are expecting.
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Sven Aurich
Wirtschaftsprüfer, CPA, Steuerberater at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature is that it's quite small, and does not consume too many system resources.
View full review »Does malware analysis. Blocks WannaCry and other attacks that have come out.
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reviewer1540974
Vice President Product and Strategy at a tech company with 201-500 employees
The product works pretty well. It does a good job catching good viruses. While we haven't had a chance to test against any kind of ransomware attack, I know it works great and I'm not worried about its capabilities in that respect.
The initial setup was straightforward.
The solution has proven itself to be very stable and unobtrusive.
A user can continue to add endpoints and the solution will continue to perform well.
Technical support is helpful and responsive.
View full review »The protection, specifically for endpoint protection, has been the most valuable. With Cylance AI and Machine Learning, it's ensuring that all types of malware, PUP (Potential Unwanted Programs) and Memory Protection your endpoint devices are fully protected, even with day zero threats. Cylance also got the optics add-on for advance scanning and reporting, but most of the clients are more interested in the protection as this is all you need for your endpoint security.
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reviewer1176750
VP at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable features are script blocking and macros within Word documents for stopping unwanted applications from running in the background.
The dashboard is good.
There is not too much overhead, which is good because you don't want unnecessary things that just build in bulk.
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Software4704
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The vulnerability management is the most valuable feature of this solution.
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Thomas Reisel
IT Manager at TIGRA gmbh
The quick installation would be the most valuable aspect of this solution. The interface is also not too bad.
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Akhlaq Ahmed
BlackBerry Cylance SME - Resident Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I like the AI and mathematical components that they use.
I like the pre-execution method of protection that prevents infection. It is a nice feature.
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reviewer1465668
Senior NOC Security Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
I find the actual overall endpoint malware protection the most valuable feature of CylancePROTECT.
View full review »What is valuable to me is the protection the solution provides against unauthorized applications. It secures different entry points into the network so that instead of being outside the internet, it's actually in the network and helps to protect internally.
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reviewer1457430
Coordinator of special projects at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
The solution does a good job of blocking whatever it thinks needs to be blocked and it doesn't require a lot of performance from the computer.
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reviewer1300632
Technology Specialist at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
The most valuable features of this solution are that it's:
- Easy to use
- Minimalist
- Has good RAM capacity for the power I need.
- Isn't bulky.
Buyer's Guide
CylancePROTECT
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about CylancePROTECT. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.