The only use of the word antivirus in information security elicits a mostly unfavorable response. Antivirus has long been the world’s most popular endpoint-security technology. And, it was enough for a period. Antivirus (AV) succeeded in preventing most malware attacks. As attacks grew, antivirus stagnated, breaches occurred, Data was stolen. Currently, signature and heuristic-based antivirus, the same kind that has covered us for years, detects less than half of the extraordinary malicious happenings. If a company uses conventional AV, instead they should be using a modern AV. What is Next Generation antivirus? Next-generation antivirus is using more sophisticated techniques to encrypt your data and protect your network from attacks than conventional solutions. We are noticing more and more than conventional, signature-based anti-virus solutions lack the power to counter the flood of evasive malware today. Attackers today use new techniques that bypass traditional antivirus software. Traditional antivirus relies on a regularly updated database of signatures to detect potential threats. Today, hackers are turning gradually to non-file-based attacks, which are not detected until it is too late. Next-generation antivirus is more proactive in evaluating the possible danger from incoming files using behavioral AI. By examining data, processes, programs, and network connections, NGAV generates an ever-developing image of the network environment and can detect and prevent attackers without malicious data being present. NGAV will identify malicious behavior that is concealed in plain sight by detecting minute changes in directories, registries, and networks. Modern network attacks are multi-stage, tailored, and significantly higher risk-and antivirus solutions are simply not up to the job. Traditional antivirus agents search your data regularly to ensure that no malicious files have been able to make their way through your network. Such regular scans can be a hassle to end-users because their productivity is impaired when they occur. Next-gen systems don’t need such scans, so efficiency loss is no longer an issue. NGAV does so many good things to protect businesses: Avoids product malware better than traditional AV Avoids unknown malware and advanced attacks by determining the nature of a whole attack resulting in better protection-traditional AV does not Offers awareness and information to get to the root cause of cyberattacks and provide additional background and analysis-traditional AV does not Remediate attacks-traditional AV does not NGAV is a hybrid steroid AV that provides superior prevention compared to conventional AV with modern endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities.