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Essentials

While no one can stop malware and ransomware from entering your network, Xcitium's Essentials technology prevents cyber attacks from causing any damage with proactive ZeroDwell containment of all Unknown files and objects at runtime. Applications running in a secure Xcitium Essentials container cannot make permanent changes to other processes, programs, or data on the 'real' Xcitium Essentials technology endpoint system.

Complete Xcitium Essentials Threat Prevention

ZeroDwell Containment

ZeroDwell technology delivers auto-isolation services that compliment your existing endpoint protection platform or security posture. This standalone product includes a SaaS management console, endpoint client agents, service delivery from the Xcitium Threat Research Labs (XTRL), and the Verdict Cloud engine, a file safety determination service used to assess isolated files and objects to provide a malicious or safe verdict about contained Unknowns.

How It Xcitium Essentials Works

Xcitium Essentials With ZeroDwell Containment

ZeroDwell, zero-trust containment allows any untrusted (but harmless) applications (aka “unknowns”) the freedom to operate, while all untrusted (and potentially malicious) applications are prevented from damaging your PC or data. Malware and ransomware threats may make it on to an endpoint, but with ZeroDwell Containment, malware and ransomware are rendered absolutely incapable of damaging or breaching that endpoint to move laterally across your network to other hosts or critical assets.

BASIC FEATURES

Xcitium Essentials uses its patented ZeroDwell Containment technology to pre-emptively isolate unknown and untrusted applications or files at runtime so that they cannot make permanent changes to system processes, data, or programs; it includes a cloud-based verdict service (Verdict Cloud) that analyzes contained “unknowns” to decide whether they are safe or malicious; endpoint agents enforce containment policies, kernel-level virtualization, and default-deny rules or custom rules per policy so that unknowns are tightly sandboxed; service is supported by the Xcitium Threat Research Labs (XTRL) which continuously update threat intelligence; management via a SaaS console that allows admins to deploy policies, review containment logs, configure custom rules, and monitor endpoints; the solution operates transparently to end users, allowing benign unknown applications to execute (inside containment) while preventing threats such as ransomware, malware or zero-day attacks from causing damage; supports auto-release of benign items from containment, detailed logging of containment events, process lineage tracking for forensic purposes, and scalability for business endpoints without disrupting daily operations.

WHAT’S NEW

In the recent updates (mid-2025) Xcitium Essentials improved policy management and internal usability by adding clearer naming conventions in logs for parent/child processes which makes event tracking more precise, enhanced the platform’s network configuration flexibility especially for larger or distributed environments by supporting broader subnet masks (up to /16), refined the user interface of the management console to improve navigation between Essential and Enterprise Platforms (including renaming buttons and making the platform switcher more intuitive), released updated network sensor images under the Security > SIEM-X Token Management module improving stability in sensor deployments, and corrected several bugs related to access control, license recognition, and GUI inconsistencies (for example fixed issues preventing whitelisted websites from being accessible under restrictive social networking policies).

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Requires Windows endpoints; minimal system requirements for Xcitium Client Security include around 512 MB RAM, ~1 GB hard disk space for both 32-bit & 64-bit versions, CPU with SSE2 support; Internet Explorer version 11 or higher may be required for some management features; note that while Windows 7 is supported, some new features may not be fully functional on older OS versions. 

USER INTERFACES LANGUAGES

English

BRAND

Xcitium (formerly Comodo)

TYPE

Endpoint Threat Prevention / Endpoint Security

FOR OPERATING SYSTEM

Windows (supported versions include Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, possibly Windows 7 with limitations); both 32-bit and 64-bit supported endpoints. 

LICENSE CATEGORY

Subscription-based software

FORMAT

Digital Download

MODEL

Xcitium Essentials 2025 

COUNTRY OF USE

Globally

MANUFACTURER COUNTRY

United States