Avast Premium Business Security

Premium online security and privacy protection for small business employees

Remote Management

  • Manage your devices and security as you scale and grow
  • As your business grows, so will your security needs.
  • With our online management platform, you can control your devices, Avast security services, and their subscriptions from one place - anytime, anywhere.

Device Protection

  • Safeguard your business devices against cyberattacks
  • Computers and servers are key entry points to business data.
  • Fortify the security of your devices against online and offline threats such as malware infections, resulting slowdowns, and misuse.
  • Get more peace of mind with Avast next-gen antivirus, backed by six protection shields, an AI-powered threat detection network, and USB protection.

Data Protection

  • Prevent ransomware and data breaches, even from the inside
  • Keep your business and customer data safer from breaches, encryption, and downtime with a firewall and multiple protective shields.
  • Plus, our layered security extends to USB devices to help prevent sensitive data theft and leakage.

Online Security and Privacy

  • Stay away from phishing, sniffers, scams, and other online threats
  • You never know which Wi-Fi networks and websites your field employees might jump on.
  • Help keep their online activities safer and private within secure web browsing boundaries, so they can stay productive and worry less when working from anywhere.

Features:

Device Protection

File Shield

  • Scans programs and files saved on your PC for malicious threats in real-time before allowing them to be opened, run, modified, or saved.
  • If malware is detected, File Shield prevents the program or file from infecting your PC.

Web Shield

  • Scans data that is transferred when you browse the internet in real-time to help prevent malware, such as malicious scripts, from being downloaded and run on your PC.

Mail Shield

  • Scans your incoming and outgoing email messages in real-time for malicious content such as viruses.
  • Scanning only applies to messages sent or received using desktop email clients such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird).

Behavior Shield

  • Monitors all processes on your PC in real-time for suspicious behavior that may indicate the presence of malicious code.
  • It is designed to detect and block suspicious files based on their similarity to other known threats, even if they are not yet added to the virus definitions database.

Cyber Capture

  • Detects and analyzes rare, suspicious files.
  • If you attempt to run such a file, Cyber Capture locks the file from your PC and sends it to the Avast Threat Lab where it is analyzed in a safe, virtual environment.

Smart Scan

  • Scans for malware, outdated applications, unsafe settings, and suspicious add-ons.

Rescue Disk

  • Enables you to scan your PCs before the system booting.
  • This significantly increases the chances of detecting and removing malware because the malware is unable to counteract.
  • If you suspect your PC is infected with malware and all other antivirus scans were unable to resolve the issue, you can use Rescue Disk.

Data & Network Protection

Advanced Firewall

  • Monitor network traffic between your employees’ devices and the internet.
  • Improve blocking of dangerous or superfluous data transmissions for better protection of your business against malicious data manipulation.

Ransomware Shield

  • Reinforce the protection of your sensitive data and other critical business documents against modification, deletion, or encryption by ransomware attacks.
  • Choose which applications have permission to access your protected folders and block the rest.

Remote Access Shield

  • Helps prevent Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exploits and brute-force attacks by allowing you to choose who can remotely access your endpoints and block unwanted connections.

Network Inspector

  • Helps secure your network to prevent attackers from accessing it and misusing your data.
  • It checks the status of your network, devices connected to the network, and router settings to identify potential security issues that open the door to threats.

Data Shredder

  • Allows you to irreversibly erase your files or drives so that there is no way for anyone to restore and misuse your data.

SharePoint Server Protection

  • Checks all files uploaded onto shared storage to help prevent malware from compromising your data.

Exchange Server Protection

  • Scans and filters emails at the Exchange server level – helping stop potential attacks before they spread to the network.

USB Protection

  • Prevent employees from using unauthorized removable storage devices including flash drives, external drives, memory cards, etc.
  • Block, control, and monitor USB ports to stop data theft and malware infections. (Online management platform, the Avast Business Hub, is required.)

Online Security & Privacy

Real Site

  • Supports safer web browsing and banking by helping your employees avoid fake websites created to steal sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
  • It is designed to secure users against DNS (Domain Name System) hijacking.

Security Browser Extension

  • Scans websites for reputation and authenticity, blocks ads, and puts devices in a ‘super-safe mode’ for additional privacy.

Browser Cleanup

  • Checks browsers for add-ons with poor reputation and helps remove cookies that contain personal information.

Passwords Protection

  • Help safeguard your employees’ login information stored in web browsers from being stolen and misused.
  • It is designed to prevent applications and malware from tampering with passwords that are saved in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Avast Secure Browser browsers.

Webcam Shield

  • Helps prevent applications and malware from accessing PC’s webcam without the user’s consent.
  • Webcam Shield helps stop untrusted applications from capturing images or videos and compromising users’ privacy.

VPN

  • Personal VPN with no data limits encrypts your data traffic over the internet to help protect your employees’ data, making them also private when using public Wi-Fi networks, such as those in cafes or the airport.

Web Control

  • Create a safer, more productive business environment for you and your employees by controlling their access to potentially dangerous or non-work-related websites through web domain and content filtering.
  • (Online management platform, the Avast Business Hub, is required.)

Flexible device management:

Choose the management option that works best for your business.

Unmanaged (individual installation) 

  • Ideal for small offices that do not need management capabilities.
  • Users can adjust device settings according to their preferences and maintain complete control of their data.

Online management platform

  • Our online management platform, the Avast Business Hub, allows you to easily set up and install your protection, monitor devices, manage your subscriptions, and more from one place — anytime, anywhere.