Free Endpoint Security Tools
Endpoint security tools protect laptops, desktops, servers, and mobile devices with antivirus, endpoint detection and response, and device hardening. The free options in this category help startups cover a remote, distributed workforce without per-seat enterprise pricing.
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Comodo Antivirus
Endpoint SecurityFree antivirus with auto-sandboxing and real-time protection. Protect your device against all internet threats with Comodo Antivirus, featuring antivirus, firewall, sandbox, host intrusion prevention, and more.
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Bitdefender Antivirus Free
Endpoint SecurityFree antivirus with real-time threat detection and web protection
OpenEDR
Endpoint SecurityOpen EDR is a free, enterprise-scale open source EDR platform available to any sized organization. This Next-Gen EDR platform provides analytic detection with full-spectrum Mitre ATT&CK visibility for event correlation and root cause analysis of adversarial tradecraft in real time.
Fleet
Endpoint SecurityNormalize how you manage clouds and computers without losing low-level access to OS-specific features. A quick-fast way to gather device data across all your endpoints. Pulse check or automate anything on any platform. Modernize your device management practice with a single, open platform for Apple, Windows, and Linux.
osquery
Endpoint SecurityQuery your devices like a database. Osquery uses basic SQL commands to leverage a relational data-model to describe a device.
Sophos
Endpoint SecuritySophos stops malware and virus apps, as well as blocks unwanted web content.
ClamAV
Endpoint SecurityClamAV is an open source antivirus software used to detect viruses and malware threats. This includes scanning email links, websites, and prompts to download or install suspicious applications.
Avira
Endpoint SecurityNext-generation malware protection with a real-world detection score of 99.6%, performance that won’t slow your system down, plus stunning simplicity and ease of use. It also repairs damaged files.
What Endpoint Security Tools Do
Endpoint security tools protect the laptops, desktops, servers, and phones your people work from. The baseline is antivirus and anti-malware; endpoint detection and response adds behavioural monitoring and the ability to isolate a compromised machine; device management enforces disk encryption, screen lock, automatic updates, and the ability to wipe a lost device.
For a distributed startup the endpoint is the perimeter. The free tools on this page cover open-source EDR agents, the built-in protections in Windows and macOS that most companies never fully enable, mobile device management with free tiers, and hardening checkers that show where a laptop falls short of the CIS Benchmark.
How to Choose a Endpoint Security Tool
- Enforce full-disk encryption, screen lock, and automatic OS updates on every device before choosing an EDR product.
- Pick an EDR agent that reports to a central console; per-device antivirus with no visibility does not satisfy auditors.
- If staff use personal devices, choose a mobile device management tool that can separate work data and wipe only that.
- Check that the tool can produce a device inventory with encryption and patch status; it is asked for in every security questionnaire.
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Free CIS Controls Gap AssessmentEndpoint Security Tools: Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between antivirus and EDR?
Antivirus blocks known malicious files by signature. EDR (endpoint detection and response) watches process behaviour, network connections, and persistence mechanisms to catch attacks that do not use a known file, records what happened, and lets you isolate the device remotely. Modern free and paid products combine both.
Is the built-in security in Windows and macOS enough?
For a very small team, the built-in protections are a reasonable start if disk encryption, firewall, automatic updates, and the built-in anti-malware are all enforced and you can prove it. Once you need central visibility, incident response, or compliance evidence, add a managed EDR or MDM tool.
Do we need mobile device management for a 10-person company?
If those 10 people read company email on phones, MDM or at least app-level protection is worth it, because a lost unlocked phone is a data breach. Several MDM products offer free tiers for small device counts.
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