How Atera’s Antivirus Integrations Optimize Security Management

No matter the size of your organization, antivirus software should be a key part of your security stack. In 2024 alone, 59% of organizations were hit by ransomware. While this number is slightly down from earlier years, it’s no time to lower your guard.

On Atera, you can find 25+ integrations, many of which are with antivirus software. Our antivirus integrations are ideal for enterprises that want to expand Atera’s built-in capabilities with additional tools to protect their devices and systems from malware.

In this article, we’ll look at what antivirus integrations Atera exactly has and what they can be used for. Before that, let’s learn a bit about Atera’s integrated approach to endpoint security.

Note:

To learn more about Atera’s antivirus and other integrations, take a look at our Atera App Center page

Atera’s Integrated Approach to Endpoint Security 

Atera is an Agentic AI platform for IT management with all the features needed to support your entire IT operation. These include RMM, remote access, patch management, ticketing, Network Discovery, AI agents, and more.

To complement Atera’s strong IT management capabilities, we integrate with leading antivirus software, including:

• Bitdefender
• Acronis
• Cynet
• Emsisoft
• ESET
• Ironscales
• Keeper
• ThreatDown
• Webroot

When paired with Atera’s endpoint management capabilities, you can monitor all your devices using our advanced RMM and AI agents, while also getting access to in-depth malware protection and security insights.

How do Atera’s antivirus software integrations work?

To add an antivirus integration to Atera, head to the App Center page in Atera’s web app. 

As for integrations, this is the page for Atera’s antivirus management. From there, you can choose from the different antivirus software available.

Atera’s App Center page

Once your antivirus software integration has been activated, it can be installed on your devices from the Devices page within Atera.

Atera customers often get special deals for their antivirus integrations, such as Bitdefender. 

Although Bitdefender normally offers a 30-day free trial, Atera customers using Bitdefender get a 45-day free trial.

If your preferred antivirus software is not on the list, Atera integrates with more than 7,000+ additional apps through Zapier. You can also tell us about new integrations that make your (work) life easier by submitting a request on the Atera Features Board.

Atera’s antivirus integrations

For a quick overview of Atera’s antivirus integrations, we’ve created an overview table below:

With that said, below is a more detailed review of these.

1. Acronis

Acronis is mainly used as a backup software that safeguards your data with built-in ransomware protection. Depending on your budget and needs, you can choose from different backup options, such as NAS, SAN, local tapes, private, or cloud. Before storing your data, Acronis removes any infection from it, ensuring malware can’t reinfect the system.

Acronis monitors the health of your data in real-time and alerts you to any issues.

It can be installed directly onto your devices within Atera, and you get access to secure cloud and local storage backup options.

Acronis Cyber Protect Pricing:

When choosing your Acronis plan, you can select a per-workload plan or a per-gigabyte (GB) plan. The GB plans start at $0.09 per GB. Atera customers get a 30-day free trial for all Acronis pricing plans. 

Learn more about Acronis here. To learn how to install it, read our guide to installing Acronis

2. ESET

To get additional protection against threats to your endpoints, our ESET integration is a good choice.

You can find four ESET products with different levels of protection:

• Entry plan: Sets the foundation with multilayered endpoint protection and server security. 
• Advanced plan: Adds encryption, mail security, and protection against malware on mobile devices.
• Complete: Adds cloud app protection, additional threat defence, and mail server security.
• Enterprise: Adds EDR capabilities for network anomaly identification and timely remediation.

These are used best alongside Atera’s enterprise IT management tools.

ESET Pricing:

• ESET offers different products, like Entry, Advanced, Complete, and Enterprise, and the pricing plans start from $0.07 per GB. ESET has a 30-day free trial for Atera customers and is currently only available for US customers.

Learn more about ESET here. To learn how to install it, read our guide to installing ESET.

3. Ironscales

If you need an integration to protect against email-related threats, Ironscales is the right option. It combines AI, human detection, and an antivirus engine to help users protect against advanced BEC threats, account takeovers, and credential harvesting. Not only does it detect threats, but it also automatically searches, clusters, and remediates similar variants in your mailboxes.

Ironscales lets you adjust the amount of automation used for threat detection, from fully automated remediation to personalized remediation. Using Atera and Ironscales together, you can get best-in-class email security.

Ironscales Pricing:

• The Ironscales email security pricing plans for Atera customers start at $4 per mailbox, and there is a 30-day free trial available

Learn more about Ironscales here. To learn how to install it, read our guide to installing Ironscales.

4. ThreatDown powered by Malwarebytes

Our ThreatDown (powered by Malwarebytes) integration helps to identify suspicious threats and respond to them by isolating users, endpoints, and networks. ThreatDown has a ransomware rollback feature, which allows users to restore files up to 7 days after an attack.

As of now, the ThreatDown integration only works on Windows devices. 

ThreatDown Pricing:

• The ThreatDown pricing plans for Atera start at $0.8 per endpoint, and there is a 15-day free trial available

Learn more about ThreatDown here. To learn how to install it, read our guide to installing ThreatDown.

5. Webroot

Webroot is threat protection and antivirus software that uses machine learning and predictive analytics to protect against malicious URLs, files, scripts, and exploits.

Atera, via Webroot, offers full web browsing protection for all your endpoints. With Webroot SecureAnywhere DNS Protection, you can customize web access policies to prevent everyday web usage from becoming a security risk.

Webroot Pricing:

• The Webroot pricing plans for Atera customers start at $1.2 per endpoint, and there is a 30-day free trial available

Learn more about Webroot here. The same article goes through the Webroot integration process.

6. Emsisoft

Atera’s Emsisoft integration helps you detect and remove all infections on Windows devices. It uses four-layer protection, which includes web and browser security, real-time file guard, behavior blocker, and anti-ransomware.

Emsisoft is designed entirely for threat protection on Windows endpoints, making it compatible with Atera’s strong RMM and PSA features. Emsisoft offers two products, Business Security and Enterprise Security + BDR.

Emsisoft Pricing:

• The Emsisoft pricing plans start at $1,10 per device, and Atera customers get a 30-day free trial for Emsisoft

Learn more about Emsisoft here. To learn how to install it, read our guide to installing Emsisoft.

7. Bitdefender

Bitdefender is a cybersecurity solution that prevents, detects, and responds to all threats on end-user devices. Its main product, Bitdefender GravityZone Core, helps to protect against malware through heuristic analysis and signature scanning. With the same product, you get access to advanced threat control, which works as a malware/network attack defense.

In addition, the available ransomware mitigation feature allows the restoration of files encrypted in a ransomware attack.

Bitdefender Pricing:

• Bitdefender security pricing plans for Atera customers are $1.2 per endpoint, and there is a 30-day free trial available

Learn more about Bitdefender here. To learn how to install it, read our guide to installing Bitdefender.

8. Cynet

Cynet is a cybersecurity solution that gives security teams visibility and protection on their critical systems and assets. To protect against malware, it offers multiple detection components, including memory patterns, signatures, file behavior, access to sensitive processes, and more.

Used alongside Atera, Cynet improves IT management through cybersecurity features that complement Atera’s RMM, as highlighted in several Atera RMM reviews.

Cynet Pricing:

• Cynet offers different pricing plans for different needs, and all plans require a minimum of 20 endpoints. Cynet has a free trial available

Learn more about Cynet and the integration process here.

Atera’s built-in endpoint management and protection features

Atera integrates with the leading antivirus software, but what about its built-in endpoint protection features?

Here’s a breakdown of Atera’s built-in endpoint management and protection features:

• Real-time monitoring and alerting: Monitor network activity in real-time and receive alerts when any potential issues arise.
• AI agents: Atera’s AI agents help automate mundane and repetitive tasks, eliminating 40% of your IT workload. They work alongside end-users and technicians and assist in resolving technical issues, solving tickets, generating remote session summaries, and more.
• Network discovery: Perform network scans quarterly or monthly to detect any suspicious activity or anomalies within the network.
• Patch management: Scan, identify, download, and deploy the latest security patches on Windows, Linux, and macOS devices. As highlighted in several Atera patch management reviews, this helps to keep your devices up-to-date and maintain a strong security posture.
• Automatic backups: Automatically back up your endpoint data in case of a data breach or ransomware attack.
• Password security and MFA authentication: Add a layer of protection with multi-factor authentication (MFA). 

Unlike traditional IT management solutions that rely on obsolete technology, Atera enables IT to run autonomously through its AI agents. Atera IT Autopilot is there to assist end-users in self-solving IT problems, while AI Copilot takes off repetitive, mundane tasks from tech’s workload.

When combining Atera’s RMM with antivirus integrations, enterprises can proactively defend against threats while minimizing human intervention.

To try Atera’s RMM antivirus integrations, you can sign up for the available 30-day free trial or contact our sales team for a custom demo.