Anti-Virus Is Dead; Long Live Anti-Malware According to New Industry Report; Prevx Named in Yankee Group Report as Leader in Anti-Malware for its "Herd Intelligence" Capabilities
Prevx is the leading anti-malware vendor providing herd intelligence features says a new Yankee Group report.
Derby, England (PRWEB) January 22, 2007 -- Prevx (www.prevx.com) today announced that industry researcher Yankee Group named it the leader in Anti-Malware Herd Intelligence for its approach to behavior-based security. In the report published this month, "Anti-Virus is Dead; Long Live Anti-Malware," Yankee Group analysts examined the current state of signature-based and behavior-based security performance and concluded that anti-virus and anti-spyware vendors are aware they're not providing enough protection.
"Prevx is the leading anti-malware vendor providing herd intelligence features," said Andrew Jaquith, security research program manager, Yankee Group, in the report. "Tens of thousands of Prevx nodes are collecting nearly 100,000 unique malware variants monthly--an order of magnitude more than McAfee collects."
Prevx Finds Rootkit 10 Days before McAfee 13 Days before Symantec
During a particularly harsh rootkit outbreak earlier in the year, Yankee Group had a front row seat to the capabilities of behavior-based detection products. When a rootkit named Hearse began infecting machines at an alarming rate, Prevx noticed it first, followed five days later by Sana whose behavior-based product also features in the Yankee report. It wasn't until 10 days after Hearse first appeared that McAfee released a signature, followed three days later by Symantec.
Saving the Sheep from Slaughter
The Yankee Group coined "Herd Intelligence" as a term that encompasses software which leverages the collective data-gathering capabilities of multiple computers to form intelligence against malware. Each computer sends back information about programs (good, bad or otherwise unknown) to a central server for automated analysis, along with data about their runtime behavior.
As other computers attempt to run one of these programs, they instantly benefit from the analysis and are informed if the program in question has been previously identified by the herd as good or bad. The user can then grant or block access accordingly. The report explains that herd intelligence increases as the herd grows because more computers yield a broader net for catching malware. In this way, herd intelligence creates herd immunity.
"The Yankee Group is the first analyst firm to rightly identify what we've been saying for months: the anti-virus and anti-spyware vendors are taking longer and longer to identify and then provide signatures for the new virus and malware outbreaks," said Prevx CEO, Mel Morris. "Because of our ability to recognize threats to our community early on, Prevx is able to provide protection days and sometimes weeks ahead of the incumbent vendors. It's fantastic that this advantage is recognized."
About Prevx1
Prevx1 detects and eradicates viruses, worms and other forms of malware using real-time data gathered from its community of over 750,000 computers. This information is used to recognize the genetics and behavior of more than 200,000 new programs every day, of which 3-4 percent are determined to be malicious. For more information about Prevx and its Prevx1 technology, please visit: http://www.prevx.com.
About Prevx
Prevx Limited is a privately-held, UK-based Internet security company that has developed a revolutionary approach to protecting computers from an ever-escalating assortment of malware for which it recently won the "Cool Vendor" award from Gartner Research. Unlike traditional security companies that identify malicious code by its "signature" and then must develop a cure one virus at a time, Prevx's Community Intrusion Prevention (CIP) system identifies malicious code by its "behavior" and is able to neutralize whole classes of malware before it ever has a recognized signature. As the traditional line of computer defense crumbles under the mounting threat of malware, Prevx is able to use intelligence derived from detailed analysis of its rapidly growing community of users to offer more aggressive, comprehensive and effective protection from malware for the world of interconnected computers. More information about Prevx is available at http://www.prevx.com.
Media Contacts
Arthur Germain
Principal, Communication Strategy Group for Prevx
631-239-6335
www.gocsg.com
Rich Mullikin, APR
Communication Strategy Group for Prevx
925-779-9115
www.gocsg.com
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