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Endpoint Security
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BYOD R.I.P.?
work home with them on the same devices they use to watch cat
and conduct their personal banking. Many of them even use their
will often allow BYOD (bring your own device), thinking that itll
that for each incident that makes the news, there are possibly
get smarter about it? In the rapid pace of tech, how will endpoint
of
In my data center
work experience,
a very significant
percentage of the
major network
vulnerabilities Ive
had to fix were
caused by the
introduction of
poorly secured
computers. Its
a surprisingly
common blunder.
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ically Android and jailbroken iOS devices. Remote find, lock, and
wipe arent enough, said Mark Bermingham of Kaspersky Lab.
It also makes it far too complicated to thoroughly run a
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less frequent!
Vendor reduction
The greater the number of vendors a business has to deal with
for their firewalls, IPSs, and antivirus solutions, the more com-
understandable.
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may have waned over the years, security experts say the pro-
say, No, not in its current form, but I dont believe its dead.
viruses and only with signatures have been dead since the 90s.
Malware fighting antivirus software continues to have value
If you asked,
Is the current AV
architecture and
capability the future
of our industry?
I would definitely say,
No, not in its current
form, but I dont
believe its dead.
Brian Kenyon
remove it from all your systems, you would find a lot of security
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been that the pure play BDS vendors have had to add malware
Intels Kenyon said. You say what applications can run and
Its been great on servers, great for data centers, great for
they must support a long list of file formats. To deal with all
those file types, the software uses file format parsers, which typi-
products.
antivirus software has evolved over the past five years to provide
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will even protect users against malware vectors like email, social
It is an arms race, Schultz said. As new avenues for exploitation arise, new counter-functionality is being built into AV software.
Certainly it is a bit hyperbolic to claim AV software is dead,
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Trend Micro, and Webroot on the defensive and opened the door
Allow me to elaborate.
Endpoint security software was considered somewhat of a
signature updates and you were pretty well protected from the
flood of pedestrian adware, spyware, viruses, and worms.
This formula worked pretty well for many years, leading to a
set it and forget it mentality in many organizations. And since
AV software was part of standard PC configurations, endpoint
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Alas, somewhere around 2007 the endpoint security landscape changed. Organized hackers got serious about attacks by
using stealthy malware, evasion techniques, rootkits, and zero-
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were caught in the fog of war. In too many cases, they didnt
sioning and IT operations task for too long. By doing so, we are
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