Antivirus, more appropriately known as antimalware, has matured significantly since the days of dedicated antivirus servers, daily signature updates, and manually managed policies.Įndpoint protection covers much more than antimalware. Okay, I made that first part up, but the second part is, of course, true. Studies show that CSO readers are most likely to know that endpoint protection is the modern iteration of the antivirus tools of previous generations.