Panda Security has introduced version 5.04.50 of Cloud Office Protection, a cloud-based security offering for business endpoints, which provides small and medium sized businesses along with their service providers an effective way to manage malware prevention, detection and remediation in distributed work environments.
The company said that the new version uses heuristics technology to prevent infections from unknown malware, allowing it to block threats even if the user is offline at the time of detection, or if the malware strain is new.
In addition, the new version is compatible with Office 2010, scans email messages stored in Windows Live Mail. It also contains a small signature file that includes data about active malware every day, making protection more efficient with less impact on the user’s PC.
The signature file updates are automatic, requiring no administrative intervention to deploy and implement them across every workstation on the network.
Panda’s cloud-based security offerings include real-time protection via collective intelligence; approximately 50% cost reduction since there is no need to invest in infrastructure; and possibility of outsourcing security management, due to its ease of implementation, configuration and maintenance.
