EDR / XDR solutions provide necessary endpoint protection as well as threat detection, investigation, and response by using threat intelligence and data analytics. BlackFog works well alongside these solutions but also offers some advantages over these technologies. Here are some main points to consider. AI powered EDRs can’t always provide persistent, protectable solutions for [...]
ADX has been specifically designed to be a zero trust solution as it prevents any code from unauthorized data exfiltration. BlackFog effectively validates a zero trust architecture by ensuring every application is doing exactly what it says it should. In an ideal world this would not be necessary, but latent code can activate at anytime [...]
How is BlackFog different from DLP revolves around both where it runs and what information it collects to perform its function.
BlackFog does not collect information about you.
BlackFog utilizes different rule sets to protect your device. Updating BlackFog is managed within the application automatically. BlackFog periodically checks BlackFog servers for updated rules and downloads new ones as necessary. BlackFog uses SSL for all connections to its update servers. Please ensure you have all the relevant ports open to ensure it is [...]
BlackFog has been specifically designed to have little to no impact on your machine in terms of performance. If anything you should notice your machine is noticeably faster because it is preventing the transfer of vast amounts of information from your machine over the network.From a CPU perspective BlackFog uses around 1-5% (depending on Operating [...]
From a system resource perspective BlackFog was designed to be very lightweight. In fact, the BlackFog executable occupies approximately 2MB of drive space and the whole package around 20MB. It has been developed in the same language as the underlying operating system and has no dependency on other runtime frameworks, so it is very [...]
Anti-Virus products focus on what to do AFTER you have been infected. BlackFog focuses specifically on real-time network threat detection and preventing spyware and ransomware from infecting your machine in the first place. BlackFog works in conjunction with your existing AV solution. Just like you would go to the Dr. when you are sick, [...]
