Use Cases of Cloud Antivirus
- An interface for all the activities: Cloud antivirus provides an interface for all of the activities running inside the user’s computer. That activity can be related to both security and performance as well. With the help of this interface, users can interact and maintain their activities.
- Real-time provide monitoring: It provides real-time monitoring for all of our activity, whether it is web surfing, installing third-party software, or plugging in an external device. If any suspicious activity is found, then it alerts the user by giving an alert.
- Remote service: Cloud security providers provide remote service, If any user has a problem while using cloud service, then remote service is available for any required help.
- Easy and secure installation of third-party software: Cloud antivirus monitors all of the running activities, whenever any software is installed, it checks for malicious activity. If the software contains a virus or behaves unethically then it generates an alert to warn. Thus, it makes the installation of software easy and secure.
What is Cloud Antivirus?
Antivirus software is a program that is used to detect and remove viruses and other malicious files from computers, which can harm the computer system. Cloud antivirus is a popular software technology nowadays that reduces loads of antivirus from the client’s computer by porting it into a server based on cloud technology rather than installing it into the computer with the complete software. Regular antivirus programs are just dependent upon the resources of the client’s local computer while for using cloud antivirus solutions we just need to install a small software in our local computer which connects our machine to the cloud server of the security service provider by the mean of the internet. With the help of this small software, the data by cloud antivirus is scanned and the necessary information regarding threats or viruses is sent to the user.