Sangfor Athena EPP (previously known as Sangfor Endpoint Secure) redefines endpoint protection by combining next-generation antivirus (NGAV), endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities, and endpoint management into a single, powerful solution.
It delivers end-to-end protection, detection, and response across endpoints on your entire network—ensuring seamless management, streamlined operations, and simplified maintenance. Its flexible, scalable architecture supports on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid deployments, making it the ideal choice for organizations of all sizes seeking robust and adaptive endpoint security.
Asset Management
Pre-Attack Prevention
Athena EPP provides complete visibility and centralized management of endpoint assets, including inventory, discovery, and software usage monitoring. This helps administrators identify and take actions on unauthorized or vulnerable devices and software, enforce policy compliance, and maintain operational oversight.
Patch Management
Pre-Attack Prevention
Athena EPP proactively detects system vulnerabilities and provides patching capabilities to fix them. It helps organizations reduce their attack surface by addressing configuration flaws and outdated software, supporting continuous compliance with security baselines and minimizing the risk of exploitation.
AI-Powered Detection
During-Attack Detection
Sangfor Engine Zero uses AI detection technology to identify unknown and evolving threats, including fileless attacks and zero-day exploits. Real-time behavioral analysis, backed by threat intelligence from Neural-X, ensures threats are detected accurately and quickly, even when traditional signature-based antivirus engines would miss them.
Dedicated Ransomware Protection
During-Attack Detection
Athena EPP includes ransomware defenses such as endpoint honeypot, behavioral monitoring, and rapid process termination. It blocks malicious encryption activities within 3 seconds, achieving 99.83% detection accuracy from data gathered across 12 million endpoints, offering robust protection against both known and emerging ransomware variants.
Phishing Protection with Automated Response
During-Attack Detection
Athena EPP offers advanced phishing protection through precise detection and comprehensive attack visualization. It maps the full kill chain of phishing attempts and automatically responds by terminating malicious processes and removing harmful files, effectively preventing lateral movement and minimizing the impact of phishing threats.
Forensic Analysis & Threat Hunting
Post-Attack Remediation
The platform enables in-depth investigation with capabilities like attack chain visualization and MITRE ATT&CK mapping. Security teams can trace the root cause, correlate events across affected assets, and identify lateral movements, enabling targeted remediation and better preparedness against repeat or persistent threats.
Ransomware Recovery
Post-Attack Remediation
In the event of encryption, Athena EPP offers ransomware recovery through automatic file backup and integration with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Once malicious processes are blocked, backed-up files can be swiftly restored, minimizing downtime and data loss while ensuring business continuity after an attack.
Pre-Attack Prevention
Athena EPP provides complete visibility and centralized management of endpoint assets, including inventory, discovery, and software usage monitoring. This helps administrators identify and take actions on unauthorized or vulnerable devices and software, enforce policy compliance, and maintain operational oversight.
Pre-Attack Prevention
Athena EPP proactively detects system vulnerabilities and provides patching capabilities to fix them. It helps organizations reduce their attack surface by addressing configuration flaws and outdated software, supporting continuous compliance with security baselines and minimizing the risk of exploitation.
During-Attack Detection
Sangfor Engine Zero uses AI detection technology to identify unknown and evolving threats, including fileless attacks and zero-day exploits. Real-time behavioral analysis, backed by threat intelligence from Neural-X, ensures threats are detected accurately and quickly, even when traditional signature-based antivirus engines would miss them.
During-Attack Detection
Athena EPP includes ransomware defenses such as endpoint honeypot, behavioral monitoring, and rapid process termination. It blocks malicious encryption activities within 3 seconds, achieving 99.83% detection accuracy from data gathered across 12 million endpoints, offering robust protection against both known and emerging ransomware variants.
During-Attack Detection
Athena EPP offers advanced phishing protection through precise detection and comprehensive attack visualization. It maps the full kill chain of phishing attempts and automatically responds by terminating malicious processes and removing harmful files, effectively preventing lateral movement and minimizing the impact of phishing threats.
Post-Attack Remediation
The platform enables in-depth investigation with capabilities like attack chain visualization and MITRE ATT&CK mapping. Security teams can trace the root cause, correlate events across affected assets, and identify lateral movements, enabling targeted remediation and better preparedness against repeat or persistent threats.
Post-Attack Remediation
In the event of encryption, Athena EPP offers ransomware recovery through automatic file backup and integration with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Once malicious processes are blocked, backed-up files can be swiftly restored, minimizing downtime and data loss while ensuring business continuity after an attack.
Unified Endpoint Security Management
Athena EPP enables centralized security management through a single console, streamlining operations and ensuring consistent protection across all endpoints.
Ransomware Protection
With a ransomware honeypot, AI-powered behavioral detection engines, and file recovery capabilities, Athena EPP excels in the protection against all types of ransomware.
Phishing and Web Intrusion Protection
Athena EPP offers automated protection against phishing and web intrusions, providing detailed attack insights, visual kill chains, and automatic threat response.
Telemetry & Response Component for XDR
Athena EPP can serve as a component of an XDR setup, feeding real-time endpoint telemetry to the platform for correlation analysis and executing automated response actions.
Unlike competitors that require separate tools for endpoint protection and management, Athena EPP integrates both into a single solution. This reduces operational complexity, compatibility issues, and cost, offering value that fragmented solutions struggle to match.
Athena EPP natively integrates with Sangfor’s security ecosystem, including Athena NGFW, SWG, NDR, XDR, and MDR, to deliver diverse and specialized solutions, whereas some vendors require third-party integrations to provide the same capabilities.
Athena EPP stands out with third-party validation: a “Top Product” AV-Test award with perfects scores on numerous tests and a 95% “Willingness to Recommend” score in Gartner Voice of the Customer for EPP—surpassing industry averages.
Athena EPP offers malware protection, vulnerability scanning, patch management, and device control under one cost-competitive license. This all-in-one model reduces tool sprawl and operational costs while maintaining robust endpoint security coverage.
EPP (Endpoint Protection Platform) is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect endpoints—such as desktops, laptops, and servers—from a wide range of threats, including malware, ransomware, phishing, and zero-day attacks. EPP solutions typically include antivirus, anti-malware, host firewall, device control, and threat intelligence integration—managed from a centralized console.
Sangfor Athena EPP is a modern EPP platform that goes beyond traditional protection by combining next-generation antivirus, built-in endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities, and robust endpoint management features—all within a single, unified solution.
1. EPP vs. Antivirus:
Antivirus is a basic security tool that detects and removes known malware based on signature databases.
EPP includes antivirus as one component but goes further by integrating multiple layers of defense (e.g., behavioral analysis, machine learning, and vulnerability assessment) to prevent, detect, and respond to both known and unknown threats.
2. EPP vs. EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response):
EDR is focused on detecting, investigating, and responding to advanced threats that bypass traditional defenses. It provides deep visibility into endpoint activities and supports threat hunting and forensic analysis.
EPP is preventive by design, aiming to stop threats before they can cause harm. Some modern EPP solutions also include EDR capabilities, but full EDR platforms are more robust for post-compromise detection and response.
Yes, Athena EPP uses advanced AI and machine learning to detect advanced threats by picking up malicious behaviors, fingerprints and signatures. Along with a ransomware honeypot that can be deployed easily onto endpoints, Athena EPP is proven to detect and block even the most advanced malware and ransomware.
Yes, you can install the Athena EPP Protect agent on a system with another AV or EDR installed. During the installation, you will be asked if there is other anti-virus software installed. If you select "yes," the installation will ask if you wish to continue. If you choose to continue with the installation, the installation will continue in compatibility mode and the Protect agent will automatically disable real-time protection to not interfere with the existing AV agent.
Yes, you can choose when agent groups or individual agents are upgraded. This gives you flexibility and control to stagger or delay agent upgrades based on organizational needs.
