Essential Business Security

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Add more transparency to your small business security

Get more oversight and centralized control over your protection against viruses, phishing, ransomware, and advanced cyberattacks.

Device protection

Protect your devices against malware infection

Get more peace of mind with Avast’s next-gen antivirus that’s rich with features but won’t slow your business down.

Protection on business devices
Get always-on security to help keep your Windows PCs, Mac computers, and Windows servers secure from viruses, spyware, phishing, ransomware, and other cyberthreats.
Protection from infected files, emails, and websites
Our File Shield, Mail Shield, Web guard, and Real Site help to prevent malware infection or phishing attacks. To help protect users against emerging cyberthreats, Behavior Shield and CyberCapture, powered by AI, are in place.

Data protection

Prevent ransomware encryption and data breaches

Keep your business and customer data safer from breaches and downtime with our firewall and multiple protective shields. Layered security helps prevent sensitive data theft or leakage.

Protection against ransomware encryption
Our Ransomware Shield helps to stop ransomware from changing, deleting, or encrypting files inside protected folders. Behavior Shield monitors processes on devices for suspicious behavior that may indicate the presence of malicious code and unknown zero-day threats. Together with File Shield and Web Guard, they provide peace of mind that your business-critical information is safer from ransomware attacks.
Prevent cybercriminals from accessing your data
Our endpoint firewall and Remote Access Shield help block unwanted connections, and stop Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exploits and brute-force attacks by hackers and as such help prevent sensitive data from leaving your computers. Firewall monitors network traffic between your employees’ devices and the internet, helping protect your business data from unauthorized manipulation and transmission.
Keep your passwords safer
Secure your employees’ browser-stored passwords from theft.

Online security & privacy

Stay more secure and private online

Safeguard your employees’ online privacy, login credentials, and business information from cybercriminals.

Secure your webcams
Block unauthorized applications and malware from accessing web cams on your employees’ Windows PCs without their consent.
Protect your passwords
Safeguard your browser-stored passwords from being modified or stolen.
Fake Website and Phishing Protection
Real Site helps keep your users away from fake, phishing sites designed to steal sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. It is designed to secure users against DNS (Domain Name System) hijacking to ensure they get to the website they want to visit more safely.

Remote management

Manage your devices and security from anywhere

As your business grows, so will your security needs. Manage your devices and Avast security services via web browser using a single online management platform — anytime, anywhere.

Single dashboard with your devices’ health status
Set up instant email or dashboard notifications based on the status of a specific device. Get a comprehensive overview of individual device issues and cyberthreats that might be spreading among devices via central dashboard, as well as automated reports.
Device and IT security management
Manage thousands of devices, set up IT security services remotely, and apply or adjust their policies.
Connect more securely to any managed device
Use our remote IT tool to connect more securely to employees’ devices with the Avast agent, and remotely resolve issues, perform tasks, reboot computers, transfer files, and chat with users.

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*Not available for macOS

System requirements

Windows 11 — x64, 10 (Pro, Education, and Enterprise editions) — x64, x86.
1 GB RAM, 2 GB free hard disk space.

macOS 13 (Ventura) or later with at least 500 MB of free disk space.
(We support ARM-based chips on macOS devices)

Windows Server 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 (any edition with latest service pack excluding Server Core) — x64, Microsoft Exchange Server (64-bit version) 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010 (Service Pack 2) and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and higher.

An Internet connection is required for automatic security updates. Personal VPN, and Patch Management are not available for MacOS.

FAQ

If you're a business that handles client data or has servers, then you need more than what our free consumer antivirus offers. Avast Business solutions offer advanced security, privacy, and productivity features to give your employees total digital privacy, security, and unparalleled productivity. They also come with an online management platform to provide real-time visibility of threats, comprehensive reporting, and remote management capabilities from a single platform.

Avast free consumer antivirus, Avast One, and Premium Security are intended for private, personal, and non-commercial use only. If you would like to use Avast in a business, commercial, non-profit, or government organization, we recommend trying Avast Business solutions.

For more information, please review our Avast End-User License Agreement (EULA).

All of our products include our next-generation antivirus for businesses designed to prevent, search for, detect, and remove malware and other malicious software (worms, trojans, adware, spyware, and more). We protect millions of businesses worldwide by using the industry’s best prevention, detection, blocking capabilities, machine learning, advanced heuristics, advanced anti-exploit, and other Avast proprietary techniques.

To protect users, Avast detects and immediately reports any suspicious files or behavior. This state-of-the-art infrastructure and access to an immense amount of security data gathered from millions of devices around the globe gives us one of the largest, most advanced threat detection networks in the world. Plus, it allows us to provide unrivaled zero-day protection.

Our cutting-edge technology transforms our users into a worldwide network of cooperating sensors. If any one of them encounters malware, Avast uses 6 layers of protection to identify, block, and inform the entire network in a matter of seconds.

For the Essential Business Security solution, the online management platform is optional. You can choose to install Essential Business Security on each device independently without management capabilities. However, our online management platform, the Avast Business Hub, allows you to manage all your devices from one place. It provides robust reporting, alerting, device and policy management, network discovery, remote access and support tools, and more. As your business and security needs grow, the Avast Business Hub allows you to add other services such as Patch Management and Cloud Backup that can all be managed from one platform.

No, Avast Essential Business Security is only available with our online management platform, the Avast Business Hub.

The following browsers are supported by our online management platform, the Avast Business Hub (latest versions recommended):

Google Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Edge

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Add more transparency to your small business security

Protect your devices against malware infection

Prevent ransomware encryption and data breaches

Stay more secure and private online

Manage your devices and security from anywhere

Need VPN and USB Protection, too?

System requirements

FAQ

I have a small business with only a few computers. Can I install Avast free consumer antivirus on those computers instead?

How do Avast small business solutions protect against cyberthreats?

Do I need to use the online management platform with the Essential Business Security product?

Can I use the Essential Business Security product with the Avast Business On-Premise console?

What are the Avast Business Hub system requirements?

Essential protection for your business

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Cybersecurity your business can’t go without

Add more transparency to your small business security

Protect your devices against malware infection

Prevent ransomware encryption and data breaches

Stay more secure and private online

Manage your devices and security from anywhere

Need VPN and USB Protection, too?

System requirements

FAQ

I have a small business with only a few computers. Can I install Avast free consumer antivirus on those computers instead?

How do Avast small business solutions protect against cyberthreats?

Do I need to use the online management platform with the Essential Business Security product?

Can I use the Essential Business Security product with the Avast Business On-Premise console?

What are the Avast Business Hub system requirements?

Essential protection for your business

Ready to get started?

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Get in touch

Get expert advice on digital security, privacy, and performance