Avast Business Managed Workplace

Avast Business Managed Workplace the platform for remote control and control of network functioning.

The solution simplifies installation of corrections, improves visibility of their status and management of them.

Components

• The managed antivirus
• Centrify Identity Service
• Backup and disaster recovery
• Network operational center and technical support
• Remote control of a premium class

Functions

• Informative reports
• Control panels services
• Automation of tasks
• Management of corrections
• Plans of service
• Management Microsoft Office 365 and VMware ESXi
• Mobile device management
• Resource management, etc.

2018: The mechanism of management of patches and the updated antivirus

The division of Avast Business of Avast company provided on July 25, 2018 updating of Avast Business Managed Workplace. Now suppliers of the managed services will be able quickly to define when installation of corrections was requested on separate devices last time, to create the stable schedule of check of updates on all attached devices and to filter the cancelled patches for saving of time and reduction of failures in work of the customer.

Nearly a third (29%) of the PC based on Windows work without the set patch worldwide to the EternalBlue exploit which was used for distribution encoder WannaCry in 2017. Many of devices which we support in Wednesday for managed services (MSP) use OS Windows therefore ensuring simple and trouble-free installation of corrections became a priority of the provided release of Avast Business Managed Workplace — told Alexey Fedorov, the chief representative of Avast in Russia and the CIS.

As key features of Avast Business Managed Workplace developers called the following:

• Last check of updates
  • The customer can easily define when the managed device last time checked existence of new patches for downloading.

• Condition monitoring of corrections
  • With this function suppliers of managed services can control check of updates on devices and its compliance to the schedule.

• Filtering of patches
  • Suppliers of managed services can use groups of in advance configured confirmations to browse the list of patches which were approved for installation, and to filter the cancelled corrections.

• Permanent filtering
  • To save time for introduction of corrections, suppliers of managed services can create filters "by default" for the page of management of patches, pages with reports on implementation of patches and reports on devices.

• The general improved support of Windows 10 assumes support of patches and technical updates of the Windows environments, including Windows 10.

At the same time, the division of Avast Business provided updating of an antivirus of Avast Business Antivirus Pro Plus. The solution was received by two more functions:

• "Protection of the webcam" (Webcam Shield) — prevents access of applications and the malware to the PC webcam without the consent of the user that he always knew who can see it;
• "The improved settings of the firewall" (Advanced Firewall settings) are the optimized rules for applications and packets help to set more exact security prefixes of workstations.