Charity Digital Exchange: A guide to Avast

The charity sector knows the importance of cyber security for protecting stakeholders and managing reputation and trust. Three quarters (74%) of charities are now either good or excellent at cyber security, according to the Charity Digital Skills Report 2024.

 

But around a third of charities (32%) report having experienced some form of cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months, according to the UK government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey. Hostile actors are attracted to charities for financial gain, access to sensitive or valuable information, or to disrupt charities’ activities.

 

When targeted by a cyber-attack, charities can be impacted more than other organisations because they often have low funds and minimal insurance coverage.

 

This article explores the discounted range of Avast’s business cyber security products on the Charity Digital Exchange to help charities champion cyber security and manage the security risks of digital operations.

 

 

Who is Avast?

 

Avast is an award-winning antivirus company, founded over thirty years ago. Its mission is to “create a world that provides security and privacy for all, no matter who you are, where you are, or how you connect”. Today, hundreds of millions of people use Avast to enjoy freedom online.

 

 

Avast’s biggest fans

 

The Avast range are some of the most popular products on the Charity Digital Exchange, and for good reason. The products are known among charities to be easy to implement, working quietly in the background to give confidence that the organisation is protected.

 

Among Avast’s biggest fans on the Charity Digital Exchange are community service organisations, educational services, hospices, mental health care charities, and religious institutions.

 

 

Defending on many fronts

 

Avast Business Antivirus Subscriptions work to defend charities from cyber-threats in three key ways.

 

Firstly, the package automatically blocks cyberthreats from entering your network. This uses “shields” to actively analyse suspicious information coming and going from devices to block malicious files, dangerous websites, unusual behaviour, unauthorised connections, and other threats.

 

Secondly, it protects against zero-day attacks. These are attacks that very quickly target unknown vulnerabilities in hardware or software. It does this by predicting and identifying new threats, using data from over 400 million active Avast users to help it act fast.

 

Finally, it allows free remote IT control. This is useful for ensuring the security of teams who work across multiple sites, including those that work from home. It can be used to resolve issues, reboot, and transfer files.

 

Here are the Avast Business Antivirus subscriptions currently available on the Charity Digital Exchange, including the savings currently offered by our platform:

• Avast Business Antivirus – Annual Subscription – save 81%
• Avast Business Antivirus – 24 Month Subscription – save 83%
• Avast Business Antivirus – 36 Month Subscription – save 87%

 

 

Patching up vulnerabilities

 

When there is a weakness in a software system, developers can use a “patch” to resolve the weakness and get rid of the opportunity for cyber-crime. Patch management is a way to identify critical vulnerabilities across a number of devices and quickly “patch” them up to keep your systems secure.

 

This is particularly useful for teams without the time to interrupt other work to identify vulnerabilities. Avast Patch Management can be used to take out the guesswork and make it easy to deploy patches from one central dashboard.

Here are the Avast Patch Management subscriptions currently available on the Charity Digital Exchange:

• Avast Patch Management in CloudCare – Annual Subscription
• Avast Patch Management in CloudCare – 24 Month Subscription
• Avast Patch Management in CloudCare – 36 Month Subscription

 

 

Supporting safe web browsing

 

Content filtering automatically blocks websites within pre-determined categories and helps IT managers increase security by notifying them when employees visit sensitive websites.

 

The software allows IT managers to set flexible policies for internet usage to avoid threats and gives them the ability to override a particular policy if a website visited it is confirmed to be safe.

 

Here are the Avast Content Filtering subscriptions currently available on the Charity Digital Exchange:

• Avast Content Filtering – Annual Subscription
• Avast Content Filtering – 24 Month Subscription
• Avast Content Filtering – 36 Month Subscription

 

 

Cyber security bundles

 

Cyber Security Bundles combine the above product types to maximise your cyber security at an even greater discount. Our Essential Cyber Security Bundle Annual Subscription includes Avast Business Antivirus, Content Filtering, and Patch Management in CloudCare for only £22 excluding VAT.

 

 

Optimise devices

 

Managing and maintaining devices is essential to avoid vulnerabilities and boost performance. Avast’s CCleaner is a way for IT managers to centrally manage PCs and keep them optimised.

 

Efficient devices help teams work at peak performance, without unnecessary delays of devices that slow down, crash, and run out of hard drive space. CCleaner automatically supports device efficiency, freeing up the time of IT managers to handle other tasks.

 

It does this by speeding up endpoints, cleaning unnecessary files, clearing browser history, passwords, and other information, and stopping unnecessary programs running in the background, and more.

 

Here are the Avast CCleaner subscriptions currently available on the Charity Digital Exchange, including the savings currently offered by our platform:

• CCleaner Cloud for Business – 12 Months Subscription – save 40%
• CCleaner Cloud for Business – 24 Months Subscription – save 40%
• CCleaner Cloud for Business – 36 Months Subscription – save 42%