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Issues Related to Traditional Security Solutions

Traditional solutions designed to provide information security, namely antivirus software and personal firewalls, are highly effective only against known vulnerabilities and threats.

These solutions are based on reactive technologies, which detect only the results of known malicious impacts on user systems and data.

Unfortunately, reactive technologies are almost useless when it comes to responding to new threats, because of the time involved for vendors to acquire, identify, and analyze the malicious code, to add the signature to their anti-virus databases and finally for users to update their local databases. This makes reactive protection highly vulnerable to zero-day threats.

Thus, during the time between the release of a new viral or other malware attack and the identification and development of a viable signature, PC users are unprotected. In recent times, thousands of computers have been infected by such widely spread viruses as MyDoom and Sobig before antivirus vendors were able to release updates for their antivirus databases.

It is now obvious for most users that traditional information security tools are inefficient against quickly proliferating new threats. Malware has recently shown a trend toward extremely rapid proliferation and more sophisticated viruses and intrusion methods.

The Future of Computer Security Systems

Computer system security is an extremely serious problem because threats are growing faster than workable solutions. To provide comprehensive protection, security solutions must be based on cutting-edge technologies and approaches to information safety.

The following are key requirements for new-generation protection solutions:

• Protection must be multi-target, i.e. it must be effective against a wide spectrum of malware.
   
• Protection must provide not only reliable detection but also effective prevention of attacks at any time, especially when the operating system is being loaded.
   
• Protection must be implemented on end-user workstations rather than on the network level. Detection of intrusions at the network level is often inefficient because some attacks cannot be blocked at this level.
   
• Protection must be “highly intelligent”, smart and able to learn from the previous experience, which means that even the most sophisticated attacks will be detected with a minimum of false positives.
  
• Protection must have adequate information on the state and configuration of the system.

Safe'n'Sec is an innovative new-generation solution, which fully complies with the above-listed requirements.

Safe'n'Sec utilizes the latest preventive technologies for malware detection. By analyzing the malicious behavior of applications, our preventive solution controls any application activity performed on user computers in real time and block attempts by malicious software to violate computer security.

This technology provides a new level of protection for personal computers against new and unknown threats, such as zero-day viruses, hacker attacks, and vulnerabilities.

Examples of malicious actions are attempts to delete system files, establish a network connection, to access the system registry, etc. The intelligent decision-making system that makes a decision about the malicious nature of applications yields few false alarms and requires almost no intervention from the user.