FEATURE: REGIONAL CYBERSECURITY
Polymorphic malware – next
gen anti-virus (NGAV)
This was arguably one of the biggest
advances in endpoint protection. NGAV
products could now move beyond detection
to prevention. Often using highly complex
mathematical algorithms, they could identify
and predict virus-like activity.
If approximately 20% of a file
looked ‘virus-like’ it blocked these
files automatically from infecting an
organization, moving the goal posts from
detection to predication.
This strategy has proved to be exceptionally
successful, and now NGAV products are
typically very cost effective and critical to a
cyber-defensive strategy.
Metamorphic malware – the
‘undetectable’ malware
The latest evolution of malware threats
changes the rules again, unfortunately in
Greg Wyman, Bufferzone Security
www.intelligentcio.com
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