Η Kaspersky Lab today announced that it has patented a new method to protect cloud services used by antivirus software developers to address digital threats more effectively and to prevent illegal cloud services from digital criminals.
Patent number no 8661547 was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and describes a technology that protects cloud services from the false information they may receive.
Security solutions providers use cloud services to ensure the most direct response to emerging threats of the Internet. Commercial apps use cloud computing as a source of information on new digital threats, as well as to send suspicious files to analysts antivirus in order to evaluate them. However, digital criminals may try to use the feed channel to send corrupted data to be processed. In this way, they can try to conceal a malicious program and present it as safe or want to put legal applications at risk.
The new system performs a series of tests before using any information that is "raised" by a device. O server checks whether the data communication protocol specification has been violated. An unusual set of actions or other anomalies noted when sending data may indicate that digital criminals are trying to interfere with the operation server. In turn, the security app installed on a user's device analyzes the device settings. The developer can also use other methods to verify the legitimacy of any data that has been sent.
Αφού αναλύσει τις πληροφορίες που έχει συλλέξει, το σύστημα αποφασίζει σε ποιές ενέργειες θα προβεί για τα δεδομένα που έχει λάβει: μπορεί να τα χρησιμοποιήσει για να διευρύνει τη βάση δεδομένων ή να τα αγνοήσει λόγω κινδύνου πλαστογραφίας. Επιπλέον, με βάση τα αποτελέσματα του control που πραγματοποιείται στις συσκευές, το σύστημα μπορεί να τις κατηγοριοποιήσει ανάλογα με το πόσο αξιόπιστες κρίνονται. Αρχικά, η σχετική αξιολόγηση ορίζεται σε χαμηλά επίπεδα. Ωστόσο, αναθεωρείται αργότερα κατά τη duration of instances when the device communicates with the cloud service.
"The Kaspersky Security Network is an essential element of its infrastructure Kapersky Lab. Ensures that information on new threats quickly reaches users' computers, "commented Andrey Efremov, Director of Whitelisting and Cloud Infrastructure Research and co-creator of the new patent. "Of course, infrastructure like this is another attractive target for digital criminals who want to break the security of hundreds of thousands of computers at a time. It is therefore important for us to protect its infrastructure Kaspersky Lab from these attacks and to prevent the penetration of false information into databases antivirus"He added.
Patented technology is being implemented in Kaspersky Security Network, the cloud infrastructure supported by Kaspersky Lab's security products for home users, small and medium businesses and large businesses. With Kaspersky Security Network, the company's products are able to provide maximum security against online threats at any time.
At the end of March 2014, Kaspersky Lab had patented 195 patents in US, Russia, European Union and China. The competent authorities are processing other 242 applications for patents. Most patents secured by Kaspersky Lab technologies related to the operation of security solutions.
