Is anti-virus finally dying? Sort of, say Symantec and its rivals
The world’s biggest IT security company Symantec has admitted anti-virus software is “dead” and it doesn’t think of the technology as a money maker anymore.
The comments came from the company’s senior vice president for information security, as a handful of other companies released reports trying to put the final nail in the coffin of anti-virus.
Whilst Dye told the Wall Street Journal it was still worth buying anti-virus to stop some threats, it still let through around 55 percent of attacks. And yet Symantec still counts on anti-virus for 40 percent of its revenues.
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Relying on the download of the latest definitions to remain secure is not the best way, which is one reason why I prefer Webroot, maybe they are all catching onto the idea. 😉
Symantec And Security Starlets Say Anti-Virus Is Dead
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Interesting article and all the more reason to have faith in Webroot and others that recognized a new direction was needed! Thanks Jasper!
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Jasper, thanks for sharing!
I'm glad that finally someone noticed what has been hushed up for a long time.
Traditional AV acting on the basis of downloading signatures is already outdated and it has not kept pace with the dynamics of emerging threats. And that is obvious!
The future belongs to lightweight software comprehensively protecting our resources, without disrupting our daily work and fun, the future belongs to protection in the Cloud...
The future belongs to Webrooters!! ;)
I'm glad that finally someone noticed what has been hushed up for a long time.
Traditional AV acting on the basis of downloading signatures is already outdated and it has not kept pace with the dynamics of emerging threats. And that is obvious!
The future belongs to lightweight software comprehensively protecting our resources, without disrupting our daily work and fun, the future belongs to protection in the Cloud...
The future belongs to Webrooters!! ;)
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Antivirus is Dead: Long Live Antivirus!
May 7, 2014
An article in The Wall Street Journal this week quoted executives from antivirus pioneer Symantec uttering words that would have been industry heresy a few years ago, declaring antivirus software “dead” and stating that the company is focusing on developing technologies that attack online threats from a different angle.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cryptservices-285x161.pngAds for various crypting services.
This hardly comes as news for anyone in the security industry who’s been paying attention over the past few years, but I’m writing about it because this is a great example of how the cybercrime underground responds to — and in some cases surpasses — innovations put in place by the good guys.
About 15 years ago, when the antivirus industry was quite young, there were far fewer competitors in the anti-malware space. Most antivirus firms at the time had a couple of guys in the lab whose job it was to dissect, poke and prod at the new crimeware specimens. After that, they’d typically write reports about the new threats, and then ship “detection signatures” that would ostensibly protect customers that hadn’t already been compromised by the new nasties.
This seemed to work for while, until the smart guys in the industry started noticing that the volume of malicious software being released on the Internet each year was growing at fairly steady clip. Many of the industry’s leaders decided that if they didn’t invest heavily in technologies and approaches that could help automate the detection and classification of new malware threats, that they were going to lose this digital arms race.
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And we know this is not the case with Webroot SecrureAnywhere and Cryptos with it's Monitoring and Rollback feature.
Daniel 😉
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By Tim Dickinson in Computing, News · May 7, 2014
The internet has been lit up today by a comment made Symantec executive Brian Dye in a Wall Street Journal article last weekend where he said that “antivirus is dead” and only catches 45% of bugs, but that is far from the case and the more interesting story may be the longevity of Symantec.
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That could make things interesting if Symantec is broken up
The internet has been lit up today by a comment made Symantec executive Brian Dye in a Wall Street Journal article last weekend where he said that “antivirus is dead” and only catches 45% of bugs, but that is far from the case and the more interesting story may be the longevity of Symantec.
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That could make things interesting if Symantec is broken up
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Now that would be interesting!
Daniel
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Yea my experience with symantec in a corporate environment has been pretty horrible, and I agree the old fashioned AV model is a dead end.
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Love the picture Mike
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