Antiviruses are "dead", he argues in his statements to Wall Street Journal ο Brian Dye, αντιπρόεδρος του τμήματος Ασφάλειας Πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων της Symantec. According to Dye, antivirus programs now offer protection only at 45% of cyber attacks.
Symantec currently markets the Norton security suite, and was the first company to release a commercial antivirus program in the 80s. The data, however, has changed drastically since then, Dye notes, as hackers in recent years have used new and more sophisticated tactics, while exploiting security gaps in the software installed on computers. Thus, 55% of cyber attacks are not detected by all kinds of anti-virus programs.
The Symantec executive says the company has no intention of abandoning Norton, which has already evolved beyond traditional antivirus, as it also detects "suspicious" activity on a machine that may come from a virus "Unknown until that moment. At the same time, the suite offers security from other threats - including, for example, a tool specifically for the "infected" link that spreads through Facebook, as well as a "filter" that protects against electronic "fishing".
Nevertheless, Symantec plans to focus more than today on technologies and services that do not emphasize "shielding", but rather the detection of a cyberattackand in the minimization of the damage that it will eventually manage to cause.
Thus, it will create a team of experts for businesses that have been attacked. Within six months, it also plans to start making specific threat reports available to its enterprise customers, while developing technologies to detect more sophisticated malicioussoftware within networks.
According to the Wall Street Journal, others have made a similar turn recently Companies that specialize in cybersecurity, such as Kasperky and McAfee.