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06.11.08 Security-As-A-Service  By
Ryan Sherstobitoff Over the past five years, the anti-virus market has experienced tremendous growth as many new technologies have emerged in response to current conditions. What was once a market consisting of very few players has evolved into a multi-billion dollar enterprise consisting of dozens of companies with huge assortment of anti-virus products varying in focus and quality. According to analysts, the global anti-virus market is forecasted to surpass $58 billion by 2010 with the introduction of new technologies in the areas of data loss prevention, virtualization security, security-as-a-service and many others. Despite this growth, the technology behind anti-virus today is highly inefficient when it comes to protecting against modernized threats. This is fueled by the fact that vendors simply can't keep up with all of the new malware surfacing each and every day. The situation has created a breakdown in the quality and effectiveness of their underlying core technology. 1 This problem is evident in today's high-profile security incidents. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (an organization that tracks incidents relating to exposure of confidential information), the number of recorded breaches more than doubled in the first quarter of 2008. 2
This problem is even more visible when you take into account the current application delivery model employed by various end-point technologies today. This agent-based delivery model introduces several challenges, not only on the side of administration, management and ease of use, but to the degree necessary to provide an adequate level of protection against zero-day, zero-hour, and zero-minute threats. This traditional model has the following characteristics: • Upgrades require time and effort to implement, leaving a dangerous window of opportunity to become infected. This problem is amplified if the upgrade includes engine revisions to detect new strains of malware. • Enterprise protection suites require deployment of a dedicated management infrastructure that in some cases will require additional hardware. Continue reading this article. About the Author: Ryan Sherstobitoff is chief corporate evangelist of Panda Security. Sherstobitoff oversees and manages the strategic response to new and emerging virus attacks. Sherstobitoff’s extensive experience includes work designing and managing network infrastructures, as well as mobilizing and managing security technologies throughout widely dispersed large-scale networks. Sherstobitoff has worked on a variety of security technologies in a myriad of platforms and environments, including financial, industrial, and service infrastructures. |
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