Best Free IT Security Software

Google Cloud Platform offers robust IT security tools to protect cloud workloads, including identity management, encryption, and threat detection. GCP’s multi-layered approach ensures that businesses can secure their infrastructure, data, and applications. With tools like Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Google Cloud Security Command Center, businesses can manage risks and compliance. New customers receive $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads, making it easier to evaluate the platform's IT security features at no upfront cost. GCP’s security tools include automated patch management, vulnerability scanning, and secure authentication, which help mitigate risks and reduce the threat surface. The platform is also designed to meet stringent compliance standards, ensuring that businesses can secure their cloud environments while adhering to industry regulations.

Cloudflare is the foundation for your infrastructure, applications, and teams. Cloudflare secures and ensures the reliability of your external-facing resources such as websites, APIs, and applications. It protects your internal resources such as behind-the-firewall applications, teams, and devices. And it is your platform for developing globally scalable applications. Your website, APIs, and applications are your key channels for doing business with your customers and suppliers. As more and more shift online, ensuring these resources are secure, performant and reliable is a business imperative. Cloudflare for Infrastructure is a complete solution to enable this for anything connected to the Internet. Behind-the-firewall applications and devices are foundational to the work of your internal teams. The recent surge in remote work is testing the limits of many organizations’ VPN and other hardware solutions.

KACE® by Quest supports your unified endpoint management (UEM) strategy by helping you discover and track every device in your environment, automate administrative tasks, keep compliance requirements up-to-date and secure your network from a range of cyberthreats. Discover, manage and secure all your endpoints from one console as you co-manage your traditional and modern endpoints, including Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, and iOS and Android devices. KACE is a Unified Endpoint Management solution that offers a single point of control for managing IT systems across the entire organization, inside or outside your network. This comprehensive solution takes the stress out of keeping devices secure and compliant so you can do more.