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 εκδόθηκε από την Υπηρεσία Διπλωμάτων Ευρεσιτεχνίας και Εμπορικών Σημάτων των ΗΠΑ και περιγράφει μια τεχνολογία που προστατεύει τις services cloud 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 it channel ανατροφοδότησης για να στείλουν αλλοιωμένα δεδομένα προς επεξεργασία. Με αυτό τον τρόπο, μπορεί να προσπαθούν να συγκαλύψουν ένα κακόβουλο program and present it as safe or want to put legitimate 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.
After analyzing the information gathered, the system decides what action it will take on the data it has received: it can use it to expand the database or ignore it because of the risk of forgery. In addition, based on the results of the testing performed on the devices, the system can categorize them according to how reliable they are. Initially, the assessment is set at low levels. However, it is revised later during events that 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, medium and large enterprises businesses. With Kaspersky Security Network, the company's products are able to ensure maximum levels of security against online threats at all times.
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.