Featured White Paper: Think Your Anti-Virus Software Is Working? Think Again. Some vendors are touting cloud-based AV solutions that place the malware signature database in the cloud. But whether the bandwidth crunch is at your endpoints or in between you and the cloud, it’s a performance hit nonetheless. Download this Lumension white paper from Web Buyer’s Guide to learn the best defense against malware is intelligent whitelisting As volume and sophistication of malware has dramatically increased, anti-virus (AV) has not been able to keep up. AV is built upon a “blacklisting” approach where the notion is to let all traffic
anti-virus software
Sourcefire Acquires Cloud-based Anti-virus Maker Immunet for USD 21 Million By Kiril Kirilov Cybersecurity solutions provider Sourcefire has acquired Immunet, a cloud-based anti-virus start-up, in a deal worth USD 21 million, the two companies said in a press release. Massachusetts-based Sourcefire is to pay initial USD 17 million in cash while the rest of the sum will be paid within 18 months following continuing development of enterprise version of Immunet’s product. Immunet’s founders Oliver Friedrichs, Alfred Huger and Adam O’Donnell are expected to retain their positions with the company. Immunet utilizes its Collective Immunity™ technology that does not require downloads to
Panda Cloud Antivirus Version 1.3 There has been an exponential growth in new viruses and malicious software that are appearing everyday on different IT platforms. Curbing this problem hasn’t been easy; it’s more like a game of cat and mouse. Newer threats and malware is created everyday and as a counter-measure, newer updates and patches of different anti-virus software are available. Keeping a large database free of malware requires an antivirus that provides the required level of protection without compromising the computational speed of the cloud; Panda Cloud Antivirus is one software that has the capability to do that. “Panda
