Experts of Malicious Infrastructure Detection Technology
Why Lastline?
Traditional anti-malware/anti-virus solutions do not offer comprehensive protection. Every week -- every day for some networks -- IT managers are reacting to employee complaints stemming from the effects of malware that has snuck past the existing anti-virus (AV) and perimeter defenses. Hours are spent cleaning machines. Most of this effort is reactionary and only initiated when the problem gets bad enough that employees complain.
Today, malware has reached a level of sophistication that not only circumvents traditional defenses (firewalls, AV software, IDS/IPS), but also hides and does the dirty work in silence.
Active event evaluation and malware research is needed to determine if something novel on your network is also a threat. However, not every company can afford a security team -- even if there were enough security experts to fill all of those teams.
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How Do You Defend Against These Attack Vectors?
Lastline’s new layer of malware defense anticipates these challenges IT managers face:
First, you acknowledge that a) after you establish sound perimeter defenses, and b) after you have established security in depth through policy, training, and technology, that c) employees will still inadvertently compromise your network.
Given that reality, the next step -- the required additional layer of defense -- is to make sure malware cannot phone home.
Our research and development of broad-based malware identification and analysis tools which are used by over 10,000 security experts annually, has shown us that it is worthwhile to map out the malicious infrastructure -- the Malscape as we call it -- to identify the sites that download malware and the servers that control the botnet infrastructure and harvest personal information.
Lastline has developed a mapping of the Malscape -- far more comprehensive than others have and far more nimble and able to keep up to date-- and has crafted malware defenses such as Previct, Guardia, and our Malscape Threat Intelligence Feed to provide this additional layer of defense, especially for companies that do not have a security team in place.