The industry that stands at the endpoint
Major AV
The vendors this desk follows closest. Each hub collects our coverage — news, management changes, and releases.
Bitdefender
The Romanian engine of the industry — its detection technology licensed into dozens of rival products, its GravityZone line a fixture of enterprise endpoint protection, and its labs a steady source of threat research this magazine cites.
- Coverage buildingArticles land here as they publish.
Norton · Gen Digital
The consolidator: the September 2022 close of the NortonLifeLock–Avast merger put four consumer security brands under one roof, renamed Gen Digital that November — a company guarding hundreds of millions of endpoints.
- From The VaultSeptember 2022 — the month the merger closed
Seqrite / Quick Heal
India's own: Quick Heal on consumer desktops since the 1990s, Seqrite carrying the enterprise line — endpoint protection, XDR and data privacy — for a market whose regulators now demand six-hour incident reporting.
- Related readingIndia desk — the CERT-In six-hour rule
SecureNxG
The newest name on this desk: an endpoint security suite for individuals and businesses, with device-tiered plans and an enterprise line. Launch coverage — releases, platform support, roadmap — begins here as the product's public milestones land.
Microsoft Defender
The default that changed the market: free, preinstalled, and — since the June 2022 launch of Defender for individuals — sold as a cross-platform subscription too. Every other vendor on this page now sells against it.
- From The VaultJune 2022 — Defender goes cross-platform for consumers
Kaspersky
The industry's geopolitical fault line: world-class research, and a Moscow headquarters that brought a German government warning in March 2022, a US federal ban on sales in 2024, and a running argument about trust in security software itself.
- From The VaultMarch 2022 — the BSI warning and the FCC list
McAfee
The most famous name in the category's history, refocused on consumer protection after its enterprise arm was sold off — and taken private in a $14 billion investor buyout completed in March 2022.
- Coverage buildingArticles land here as they publish.
ESET · Trend Micro · Sophos & the field
The rest of the majors — Bratislava's ESET, Tokyo's Trend Micro, Abingdon's Sophos — and the EDR generation that reframed the category from signatures to telemetry. One of them showed the world what an endpoint agent can do by accident.
The monthly Digital Guard desk
Every Vault edition carries a Digital Guard desk — the month's endpoint industry news, read with hindsight. The desks begin with the 2022 restorations: Norton's crypto-miner controversy in January, the Kaspersky warnings in March, Defender's consumer launch in June, the Avast merger close in September and the Gen Digital rename in November.
The Sentry Briefing
The endpoint industry's moves and the security news around them — once a week, in your inbox.