Anti-Virus
Next Layer Protection Against Known and Unknown Cyber Threats
THE CHALLENGE: Although enterprises spend millions of dollars on cyber security, the attacks, which are constantly updated, will easily bypass firewall, Sandbox, Mail Relay / Mail Gateway and Anti-Virus systems in use within organizations. How is protection against unknown cyber threats assured? How is the safety of files exchanged on the LAN-WAN assured? Is the…
Read MoreDear CISO: One way to make attachments as fast and as safe as E-mail…
Regarding your response written on the Symantec website https://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/sanitizing-email-attachements-what-i-would-have?list_context_id=1611&list_context_type=sc_forum regarding your plea of what you would like to have when sanitizing E-mail attachments. It’s true everybody needs E-mails. And let’s be really frank, everybody needs those E-mails to have clean attachments. You cannot separate between the E-mails and their attachments. Standard formats even word, excel,…
Read MoreCalling CISO’s: Can you really trust a PDF document containing a Digital Signature based on Script?
The challenge: Today many official incoming documents into an organization are received by Email, in a PDF format. Some of them are digital invoices received by the finance department, which by law, need to be signed digitally, and to be stored for years. The purpose of the embedded Digital Signature authenticates two things; That the…
Read MoreResponse to Cyber Attack on Government and Public Institutions April 2017
On April 26, 2017, the Israeli National Cyber Authority (NCA) published it had thwarted a massive cyber-attack on Israeli businesses and infrastructure in recent days in an effort to hurt the Israeli economy. The NCA explained that the cyber-attack was based on sending posing emails in the name of the victim organization, and was targeted against 210…
Read MoreWhy is Anti-Virus a good start, but not enough?
Anti-Virus, the traditional response, is a classic solution against already known threats, in many of those cases based on signature detection. But Anti-Virus is getting worse at detecting both known and new threats, as discussed here http://www.csoonline.com/article/3159073/computers/is-antivirus-getting-worse.html Symantec, the giant Anti-Virus manufacturer has declared: “AV software, which is used to prevent, detect and remove or…
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