This chapter provides an overview of the general strategy adopted by Adaptive Defense 360 to manage a company's network security.
Over 200,000 new viruses are created every day and a great majority of those new malware specimens are designed to run on users' computers in the background for long periods of time, concealing their presence on compromised systems.
For this reason, the traditional approach of protecting systems using locally stored or cloud-based signature files has become gradually ineffective: the huge growth in the amount of malware in circulation has increased the window of opportunity for malware, that is, the time lapse between the appearance of a new virus and the release of the antidote by security companies.
Consequently, every security strategy must be based on minimizing malware dwell time, presently estimated at 259 days for the increasingly common targeted attacks, whose main objectives are industrial espionage and data theft.
In view of this dramatic change in the malware landscape, Adaptive Defense 360 proposes a new security approach based on an adaptive protection cycle: a set of protection, detection, monitoring, forensic analysis and remediation services integrated and centralized within a single administration console to show the network security full cycle in real time.
This new approach aims to prevent or minimize security breaches, drastically reducing productivity losses and the risk of theft of confidential corporate information. Administrators are freed from the complex task of determining what is dangerous and why, dedicating their time and resources to managing and monitoring the security status of the network.
This new approach enables IT Departments to quickly adapt corporate IT security policies to the changing patterns of advanced malware.
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