Protecting endpoints with Datto Antivirus (AV)

NAVIGATION  Policies

SECURITY   Datto AV subscription with administrator or analyst-level platform access or Datto AV subscription with administrator or analyst-level platform access

Datto AV is an antivirus solution introduced by Kaseya. By leveraging our vast threat intelligence resources aggregated from tens of millions of endpoints over the last 20 years, it delivers compact, robust, and reliable malware protection to your endpoints.

This article provides an overview of our Datto AV solution. It describes key features and benefits, provides compatibility information, and answers questions frequently asked by our customers.

NOTE  To understand the differences between EDR and antivirus solutions, refer to What is Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)? and Achieving complete endpoint security with antivirus and Datto EDR.

Overview

Datto AV is a top-tier antivirus solution with round-the-clock access to threat intelligence from tens of millions of endpoint deployments, ensuring advanced threat detection and swift response capabilities through seamless integration with Datto EDR, Datto RMM, and RocketCyber.

Key features and benefits

Datto AV delivers high-performance antivirus for endpoints and reliability from vast endpoint experience, backed by trusted brands with world-class cybersecurity recognition. It delivers the following key features and benefits:

Requirements

  • You must have an active Datto AV subscription.
  • The Datto Endpoint Security agent must be installed on all endpoints you wish to monitor, and those devices must be able to communicate with your EDR instance.

IMPORTANT   Verify that your endpoints meet the minimum hardware and operating system requirements. Refer to the article Hardware and operating system requirements

Operating system
CPU
Memory (RAM)
Disk space 2 GB (minimum); 4 GB (recommended)

How it works

Datto AV delivers its monitoring and protection services via the lightweight Endpoint Security agent. Once you've deployed the agent to your managed systems, you'll create customized policies that define how Datto AV should analyze and respond to threats at the organization, location, and device level. You can enable or disable unique protection, scanning, and exclusion settings. When integrated with Datto EDR, Datto AV provides robust detection of and protection against known and emerging threats.

For more information about how to configure policies, refer to Working with the Policies page.

FAQs

The following topics address questions commonly asked by our customers and answered by our Product Management team.

Next steps

Ready to start your Datto AV deployment? Refer to our Getting Started with Datto Antivirus (AV) and Deploying the Datto Endpoint Security agent articles.