VIPRE Cloud works a bit differently than VIPRE Small Office. In this article, we explain some of the key differences.

Control VIPRE on all of your office computers

VIPRE Small Office protects your office computers using a separate copy of VIPRE that is installed on each computer. Each of these VIPRE installs (called Agents) run independently of each other; they are not connected in any way, and the users of each computer can run VIPRE and customize their experience however they wish.

Previously, if you wanted to change how VIPRE was working throughout your office, you'd have to go to each computer and make the change (or ask your employees to do it). With VIPRE Cloud, you now have control over all your office computers that run VIPRE from a single website console. Using this console, you can group computers together to tell VIPRE how to act for those groups. Each group is called a "policy".

This means that from a single web interface, you can adjust

• Scans - What kinds of scans are run, what time they happen, etc.
• Email - Whether to scan incoming email to remove malicious attachments and stop links to bad websites
• Firewall - Block port scans, handle specific applications, and log any suspicious network activity
• User settings - Control how much each user can change their own VIPRE settings, scan times, and what parts of VIPRE they can see 
• Notification alerts - You can get email alerts when any of your computers detects suspicious activity or malware, and deal with it from a single location
• Scheduled digests - Similarly, you can receive weekly digest emails summarizing all of the VIPRE activity that has occurred on each office computer

Additionally, your web interface (called the Dashboard) features rich, at-a-glance data that shows you exactly what is happening with your office security across all your computers.

This is the VIPRE Cloud Dashboard:

What are policies?

Policies are groups of computers that share the same VIPRE settings (scan times, firewall settings, and so forth). By grouping computers by policy, you can control all of your policies through a single console. Policies are a very powerful feature of VIPRE.

From the get-go, VIPRE has two policies set up for you automatically (Default Enterprise and Default Server). Policies have lot of options and settings you can adjust. That said, our VIPRE team has set up things so that in most cases, you don't need to make many (if any) changes to your default policies - changing things is optional.