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Kaspersky Lab Product Performance Validation Testing & Certification Changing Malware Threats in Corporate Networks Another thing which has changed with the times is the complexity of the scanning processes. No longer are anti-malware products simply signature-based scanners. They now include advanced heuristic technologies and generic signatures which can proactively detect new variants of existing families and new malware families. The best products include a variety of security features such as web or spam filtering, behavioural analysis or a firewall technology which can help protect against brand new threats. With these new, intensive scanning technologies, vendors have come up with many ways to decrease the overall processing load, so that scanning will not noticeably decrease access times or interrupt workflow. As both the malware landscape and anti-malware products have changed, so has the security testing industry. When products under test were updated periodically, used on-demand scanning and the total known malware was in the thousands, it made sense to have only a single pass or fail test which was performed a few times a year over a static test-bed of samples. This is no longer the reality of the current user experience. While it can be a meaningful baseline test of anti-malware functionality, it is far from a complete picture of overall product performance. In order to accurately reflect a user’s experience with malware, it is important to gather the full spectrum of malware from a variety of sources from throughout the internet, which circulate on various protocols. This means including not just emailbased malware, but malicious files on P2P networks, as well as on the Web and other attack vectors. Because malware does not stop when the work day ends nor does it recognize geographic boundaries, threats must be collected all day from around the world. Page 6 of 40
Kaspersky Lab Product Performance Validation Testing & Certification Changing Malware Threats in Corporate Networks As anti-malware products have begun to include more wide-ranging technologies including ones which are initiated upon execution of a file, testing must incorporate dynamic functionality by running threats on test machines. This naturally takes more time than scanning an immobile directory of files, so one must take care to select the most relevant sample set which a customer is most likely to encounter. This takes into account not just prevalence, but attack vector popularity on which it is spread, potential for damage on an infected system, as well as geography. Malware authors are always abreast of technology trends – how people share their information, how they share files. At West Coast Labs we’ve already begun to see an increase of attacks on things like digital picture frames, USB thumb drives, mobile phones and on popular Web 2.0 sites. So, suffice to say, if you know a few people who use one or other or all – malware authors are looking to exploit them for financial gain. Likewise, anti-malware vendors are developing technologies to protect them and testers like West Coast Labs are developing methodologies to mirror the user’s risk and potential infection experience. In order to keep up to date on the evolving malware landscape, one need only see which new widgets are being used in home and business network environments. But in the corporate world, keeping updated on the latest threats and technologies is not enough – TCO and ROI need to be considered. How well do advanced technologies proactively detect How quickly are new threats added How is customer support response How easily can the solution be managed remotely How much CPU time is used for scanning To find the answers to many of these questions, take a look at product performance data from leading independent test organisations such as West Coast Labs and the performance validation programmes they deliver – such as Real Time Testing. Page 7 of 40
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