The future of the programs antivirus/ cyber security may be the technology Hyperion, developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy.
"Hyperion" enables quick "recognition" malicioussoftware, even if the malicious program has not previously been identified/detected as a threat.
Hyperion analyzes and evaluates the "behaviors" of malicious programs, as it can "see" inside an executable program to determine its "intentions" without using source code or to "run" the program in question, according to one of its creators, Stacey Prowell of Cyber Warfare Research Team ORNL.
"These 'behaviors' can be automatically checked for known malicious operations, as well as individual domain problems," it says. "This technology helps identify vulnerabilities and can uncover dangerous hardware before it can go live."
Hyperion, which has been developing for over a decade, provides increased and more extensive scanning capabilities than other cyber-security methods.
"This approach is better than signature detection, which only looks for patterns of bytes. It's easy for someone to hide this - they can break it into comeyeand to spread it in the program, so that it does not look like some registered 'signature'".
R&K Cyber Solutions, which obtained the license, is expected to make the technology available in January.
"Software behavior computation is a rising one science and technology that will have a significant impact on malware analysis and software assurance," says Joseph Carter, the company's CEO, adding that unlike other methods, it doesn't just look at the "surface," but at deeper operational patterns.
He adds that the analytical capabilities of this technology can be used in various cyber-security issues, including software security, lack of source code, hardware / software data exploitation, and so on.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
