VIPRE Endpoint Security is primarily deployed for the following use cases:

• Protect endpoints from threats related to malware
• Help prevent users from deliberately or accidentally visiting malicious websites or executing malicious code
• Protect servers and workstations from network exploits
• Prevent even zero-day, file-less, and evasive malware that is undetectable with classic signature-based detection alone
• Reduce spam and phishing emails
• Ensure that endpoint applications are kept up to date with the latest security patches (VIPRE Server only as of November 2017)
• Help protect against infections on removable media (VIPRE Server only as of November 2017)

VIPRE Endpoint Security provides a comprehensive set of technology designed to protect endpoints from compromise using multiple redundant layers. The use cases listed here are representative only.

Typical Deployments

VIPRE customers range in size from very small to very large organizations. The software itself is lightweight and easy to deploy, with few issues caused by implementation of the solution. Most deployments follow a fairly simple pattern as follows:

• Site is set up
• Agents are deployed to a couple test endpoints
• After some testing, agents are deployed more broadly within the organization
• After the solution has been implemented for some time, minor tweaking of the policies and exclusions are performed to adjust for the local environment

Most deployments that follow this general pattern can go from nothing to fully installed and functional within a short time period - a day to a few days depending on environment size and other factors. 

Deployment Challenges

In a small percentage of cases, deployments face some challenges. Here we have listed some of the more common challenges along with suggestions for mitigation.

• Pre-existing AV software proves difficult to remove, causing conflicts with VIPRE
  • VIPRE includes a feature, which you enable through a policy setting, that will invoke our competitive agent removal tool (CART) during agent installation
• Local endpoint configuration settings can cause agent deployments to fail on some systems
  • Select a variety of representative systems to test with prior to embarking on a full migration
• Certain actions performed by local custom applications on some endpoints cause VIPRE to incorrectly report that application as malware - a false positive
  • Through testing, once those custom applications are identified, add them to you exclusion definitions in Endpoint Cloud
• Some USB devices and printers may stop working correctly due to driver conflicts
  • A new driver may be able that could resolve the conflict. If device control is involved, an exclusion could be set for the resource in question.