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Infection Rates are Up, Attack Vectors are Evolving, and Traditional Tools...
Our contention is that companies and government agencies must look toward new approaches and products to help them stand against the rising and evolving cyber security threats. I am catching up on...
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Patch Tuesday – An Ecosystem Like No Other
I saw a news story that noted Microsoft was preparing the “last set of patches for the decade”. I found the phrasing funny because this is clearly a function of time running out on the decade rather...
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Antivirus Detection Rates Study Shows the Real Exposure to Your Organization
I came across a blog entry from Cisco regarding malware detection rates that I found quite enlightening. My intent is to draw it to your attention now and come back to discuss it in more depth after I...
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Grading the Worldwide Malware Signature Counter
One of the fun things we did at Triumfant in 2009 was introduce the Worldwide Malware Signature Counter as a visual representation of the number of signatures being produced to address the growing...
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RSA Shocker (Not): Symantec Admits Traditional Signature Based Tools are “Not...
“Traditional signature-based approaches to security are not keeping up. What we’ve had to do is come up with a new approach. The idea is it has to be able to deal with attacks that we’ve never seen.”...
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Antivirus Detection Rates – Undetected Attacks Are Still Attacks
I came across an article in The Business Times this morning that contained a quote that caught my eye. The article was called “Singapore a growing platform for cyber attacks on region” which talked...
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Lessons Learned from the McAfee DAT Fail
When I worked at Information Builders, founder and CEO Gerry Cohen would pass by my office in the evening and stop in and ask simply: what did we learn today? While simple, that question forced you to...
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The Worldwide Malware Signature Counter – A One Year Report Card
About a year ago we had the idea of the Worldwide Malware Signature Counter as a graphical representation of how the reliance on previous knowledge of attacks for detection was no longer a serviceable...
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Malware Counts – Shock, Yawn, or a Useful Reminder of Today’s IT Security...
5 million new threats in Q3 2011! This was one of the hot lead statistics from the Q3 2011 PandaLabs Report released at the beginning of this month. Instead of pondering that number, I found myself...
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The Worldwide Malware Signature Counter Lives On
At the bottom of the Triumfant home page is the Worldwide Malware Signature Counter, a fixture on the site since May of 2009. The Counter was designed, according to the associated blog post marking...
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