Apex is a security risk to have installed at this point.

In fairness to Respawn, if what they say is true, that it’s not ACE (which based on the description of the issue, sounds truthful), it doesn’t particularly raise red flags for client security.

But any game requiring a Kernel Anticheat to play is a security risk. At least here it’s EAC, which has a lot of development efforts and doesn’t require running from boot. But as a player, that’s still a trade-off you’re choosing by playing these games.

Letting players manage and host their own custom servers/lobbies helps. Admins can monitor and ban players in real-time. I know that doesn’t lend itself as well to dedicated servers (and thus opaque server-side anticheat), battle royales, ranked matchmaking and SBMM, but I see that as a reasonable solution for fair PvP games, especially older or smaller ones.