Wonderful, I love paps.
Infosec bods try Big Data in search for better anti-virus mousetrap
Infosec house Panda Security is looking to Big Data and application monitoring as a means to achieve better malware detection. The launch of Panda Advanced Protection Service (PAPS) is a response to the widely known shortcomings of signature-based anti-virus detection as well as a means for Panda to sell extra services. The …
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Friday 20th June 2014 15:47 GMT Anonymous Coward
Anti-Virus is not "dead", profits are flat
The real problem is that there is nothing to "sell" customers (especially big ones) anymore.
Everybody sells a product that does essentially the same things. Realistically, you need A/V,& anti malware & rootkit detection & heuristics. Some combination of "All of the Above" is a minimum.
Cloud based detection is a supposed selling feature except I can see where that server gets compromised and add's just another point of failure. How about protection when the Internet is down?
I want a product that works when I'm NOT online.
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Saturday 21st June 2014 11:30 GMT Rol
Re: Anti-Virus is not "dead", profits are flat
You'll be wanting two operating systems then.
One to go online with and one to work offline with.
I do that now.
The online OS is a Linux distro and the offline one is win 7.
and they both get wiped and restored to squeaky clean every now and again with a ghost restore.
Not 100% infallibility, but in this day and age I'd settle for better than a toss of the dice, which seems to be the norm in security.
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