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 it channel feedback to send corrupted data for processing. In this way, they may be trying to disguise a malicious program and present it as safe, or want to put legitimate applications at risk.
The new system runs a series of tests before using any information "uploaded" from one 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. Με τη σειρά της, η εφαρμογή ασφάλειας που είναι εγκατεστημένη στη συσκευή ενός χρήστη αναλύει τις settings της συσκευής. Ο προγραμματιστής μπορεί, επίσης, να χρησιμοποιήσει και άλλες μεθόδους για να επιβεβαιώσει τη νομιμότητα κάθε δεδομένου που έχει σταλθεί.
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, την cloud υποδομή που υποστηρίζεται από τα προϊόντα ασφάλειας της Kaspersky Lab για τους οικιακούς χρήστες, τις μικρομεσαίες και τις μεγάλες επιχειρήσεις. Με το Kaspersky Security Network, τα προϊόντα της εταιρείας είναι σε θέση να εξασφαλίζουν μέγιστα επίπεδα ασφάλειας απέναντι στις online απειλές ανά πάσα στιγμή.
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.
