Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection

What is included in Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection?

Next-gen antivirus – Blocks malware, fileless attacks and script-based threats.
Ransomware behaviour protection – Stops encryption, backup deletion and restore point removal.
Exploit protection – Shields browsers, Office and other applications against zero-days.
Web and phishing protection – Blocks malicious sites in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Brave.
Device control – Sets USB storage to full, read-only or blocked access.
Important – Servers need the separate Endpoint Protection for Servers subscription.

What are the main benefits of Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection?

Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection is a prevention-focused endpoint security product managed centrally from the cloud-based Nebula console, not configured device by device. Malwarebytes renamed its business product line to ThreatDown in November 2023, so the same product is sold today as ThreatDown Endpoint Protection.

One agent – The same agent later carries EDR without redeployment.
Policy-based rollout – Group policies replace per-device configuration across the estate.
Brute force protection – Blocks repeated failed RDP logins on Windows endpoints.
Mixed platform support – One console covers Windows, macOS and Linux servers.
Tamper protection – Prevents local users from disabling or removing the agent.
Multi-tenant option – Service providers manage client sites from OneView.

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Which company size is Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection suitable for?

The deciding factor is not headcount but whether anyone has to produce evidence of detection and response. Endpoint Protection prevents and records attacks; it does not reconstruct how an attacker moved through a device. Organisations that only need reliable prevention on managed devices are well served. Organisations that must show an audit trail of investigated incidents will need the EDR edition.

Does Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection meet the requirements of Swiss cybersecurity legislation?

No software product on its own meets these requirements, and this one does not either. Since the revised Information Security Act (ISG) came into force on 1 April 2025, operators of critical infrastructure in Switzerland must report cyberattacks to the Federal Office for Cybersecurity (BACS) within 24 hours of discovery, with 14 days to complete the report; smaller organisations below the thresholds set in the Cybersecurity Ordinance are exempt. Endpoint Protection supports that deadline in one concrete way: every blocked or quarantined event lands in the Nebula console with endpoint name, user and timestamp, so the person filling in the BACS form is not reconstructing the incident from local event logs. What it does not deliver is the second half of a report, namely how the attacker got in and what happened afterwards, because suspicious activity monitoring and the process timeline sit in the EDR edition. It also does not cover the organisational side the law assumes: named responsibilities, a rehearsed reporting path and evidence that the report went out inside 24 hours. This text is product information, not legal advice; whether your organisation falls under the reporting obligation should be clarified with a qualified legal adviser.

Does Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection meet the requirements of European cybersecurity legislation?

No product creates NIS 2 compliance, because the directive addresses organisations and their processes rather than the tools they buy. NIS 2 requires measures across risk management, incident handling, business continuity and backup, supply chain security, vulnerability handling, access control, cryptography and staff awareness. Endpoint Protection contributes to two of those categories: incident handling, through prevention and a central record of detections, and access control at the device layer, through USB storage rules and brute force blocking on Windows endpoints. It contributes nothing to backup and continuity, vulnerability handling and patching, encryption, multi-factor authentication, supply chain review or awareness training, and those gaps have to be closed with other measures. Buyers who need patching and disk encryption inside the same product family should look at the EDR edition rather than assuming this one covers them.

Does Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection help with security questionnaires from large customers?

Partly, and it is worth knowing in advance which lines you can tick. It answers the questions on centrally enforced malware protection, agent tamper protection, removable media control, RDP brute force blocking and the existence of a managed console with role-based administration. Detections can be exported and forwarded by syslog, which covers the usual question about feeding security events into a central log system. On the vendor side, Malwarebytes holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 certification and a PCI DSS Attestation of Compliance, with the underlying reports released only under a signed non-disclosure agreement, so plan for that step rather than expecting a public download. It does not answer the questions on endpoint detection and response, forensic timelines, patch and vulnerability remediation evidence, disk encryption enforcement, multi-factor authentication, email security or mobile device coverage. The cheaper route to close the first group is the EDR edition of the same family, which adds suspicious activity monitoring, ransomware rollback, patch management, firewall management and drive encryption for Windows workstations under one agent and one console; mixing a second vendor in usually costs more in administration than it saves in licence spend.

What is the difference between Endpoint Protection and Endpoint Detection and Response?

The single decisive difference is recovery: ransomware rollback, which restores files encrypted or modified during an attack for up to seven days, is an EDR feature and is not part of Endpoint Protection. Both editions share the same prevention engine, the same agent and the same console, so the detection quality on a blocked threat is identical. What EDR adds on top is visibility and reach after something slips through, namely suspicious activity monitoring, endpoint isolation and a remote shell for investigation. Server coverage is licensed separately in both cases, so a company protecting file servers or a domain controller buys the matching for Servers subscription regardless of which edition it chooses.

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Which limitations should you know before buying?

The most common follow-up purchase is server coverage, because workstation licences do not extend to Windows Server or Linux server systems and the matching Endpoint Protection for Servers subscription has to be bought separately. On data location, most accounts run in the standard data centre; Malwarebytes opened a European data centre in Frankfurt on 3 August 2026, but it covers only a limited set of EU accounts provisioned after that date, and there is no Swiss-hosted option, which matters if a customer contract requires processing inside Switzerland. Platform coverage is not uniform either: exploit protection is unavailable on Windows devices with ARM processors, application blocking does not run on macOS, and Windows Server Core installations and non-persistent virtual desktops are not supported at all. The console is cloud-only, so an on-premises or air-gapped management server is not an option. Mobile devices, DNS filtering and mailbox protection are separate products rather than components of this one.

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Frequently asked questions about Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection

Does it replace Microsoft Defender or run alongside it?

Either behaviour can be set by policy. If the agent registers itself as the primary protection provider in the Windows Action Center, Defender is switched off automatically; if it registers as secondary, Defender