Apex One (Mac) Security Agents can use one of two scan methods when scanning for security risks. The scan methods are smart scan and conventional scan.
Smart Scan
Security Agents that use smart scan are referred to as "smart scan agents" in this document. Smart scan agents benefit from local scans and in-the-cloud queries provided by File Reputation Services.
Conventional Scan
Security Agents that do not use smart scan are called "conventional scan agents". A conventional scan agent stores all Apex One (Mac) components on the agent endpoint and scans all files locally.