2) How IT Can Enhance User Productivity with Dynamic Web Repair™
3) Advanced Persistent Threats
Real-time Code Analysis: Proactive Protection Against New and Dynamic Malware Threats
Motivated by financial gain, cybercriminals launch attacks primarily via the Web. They understand that signature- and database-reliant solutions are not designed to protect against obfuscated malicious code served on compromised legitimate sites, Web 2.0 -based attacks, and other dynamic Web-based threats. These sophisticated attacks elude traditional security systems that rely on signatures or databases such as anti-virus, URL filtering and reputation-based security.
This white paper examines the Crimeware industry and the Web-based methods currently used to sustain cybercrime. It also focuses on the business impact of these attacks and outlines the benefits of active Real-time Code Analysis technology for securing organizations from the growing malware threat.
How IT Can Enhance User Productivity with Dynamic Web Repair™
Malware is a major concern for organizations worldwide. With the mainstreaming of interactive technologies and business applications such as social networking, Web 2.0, ERP, CRM and Web hosting, balancing access to these productivity aids with protection in current Internet threat landscape is challenging.
For example:
- Web-based malware is pervasive, dynamic and proliferating rapidly
- Cybercriminals go where users go, opting to spread malware to popular legitimate websites
- Passive security methods such as antivirus, URL filtering and reputation-based solutions are no longer effective in detecting and preventing today’s sophisticated malware
- Indiscriminate blocking of websites is no longer an acceptable solution because it impedes user productivity
Taking these factors into account, organizations now turn to innovative, proactive technologies like M86’s Real-time Code Analysis to increase detection and prevention rates. While that’s a significant step forward, what happens once malware is detected on a Web page, site or document? Most Web security solutions block access to these pages, it prevents users from accessing the information they need to be productive. 84% of malware-infected websites are legitimate. That means that 84% of the time, users are prevented from accessing the websites they need to do business. There is a better way: M86 Security’s Dynamic Web Repair™ is a proactive technology that takes security a step further by enabling safe use of the Internet, and therefore, maintaining productivity.
Advanced Persistent Threats
Instances of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have increased. APTs, which are combined, sustained attacks on an organization’s computer systems, have infiltrated several major IT companies, demonstrating the effectiveness of these methods.
Ask yourself:
- What would your employees do if they found a USB stick in the parking lot?
- How susceptible would they be to clicking on a link in a Phishing message?
- Would they approve the installation or update of a third-party browser plug-in?
- How frequently do you update all your desktop applications for vulnerability fixes?
All of these methods have been used in the initial stages of APT attacks on organizations. APTs pose serious new security concerns to organizations, especially if the tools and kits used to create them become commercialized similarly to attack toolkits. This whitepaper will outline the evolution of APTs, explain the motivation behind them, and determine best practices for defending against these threats.
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