Its Time to Rethink your Corporate Malware Strategy

Due to a variety of reasons which will be outlined in this paper, signature-based antivirus scanning is becoming largely ineffective as the main tool against newer varieties of malicious computer code. Scanning performed at the gateway and server level, while still valuable, is proving inadequate as well. It is becoming evident that behavior-based policy enforcement middleware, deployed at the edge of the corporate network (PC workstations), will be required in the near future to handle known and unknown threats. Unfor...