{"id":153,"date":"2016-11-30T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.7sec.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2021-06-10T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:30:48","slug":"what-is-a-corporate-anti-virus-system-good-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7sec.com\/blog\/what-is-a-corporate-anti-virus-system-good-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Corporate Anti-Virus System Good for?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Antivirus or anti-virus software (AV), sometimes also referred to as anti-malware software, is developed with the purpose to detect, remove and prevent the proliferation of malicious code.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The consequences of malware infection in a corporate environment may be very different – from loss of valuable information, stealing of confidential information, sending unsolicited emails and spam, to unsolicited remote computer access and unauthorized malicious attacks on the server.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

ENDPOINT SECURITY<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The most commonly used product for endpoint security is antivirus software. Many of today\u2019s integrated endpoint security offerings have evolved over time from the initial development of antivirus software. Anti-virus products are often ridiculed for their continued inability to stop the spread of malicious software.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Unfortunately, there is no perfect remedy or elixir to stop malware, so antivirus products will still be necessary, though insufficient. Antivirus software is a single layer (of many) for defense-in-depth endpoint protection.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

HOW DO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE WORK?<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Although antivirus vendors often employ heuristic or statistical methods for malware detection, the predominant means of detecting malware is still signature-based. Such approaches require that a malware specimen is available to the antivirus vendor for the creation of a signature. This is an example of application blacklisting. For rapidly changing malware or malware that has not been previously encountered, signature-based detection is much less successful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MALWARE AND ITS MANY FACES<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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To start with, antivirus software was designed to primarily detect and remove computer viruses, and that\u2019s where it got its name. With the invention and proliferation of many other types of malware, antivirus products have begun providing protection from other computer threats. Modern antivirus software can protect from malicious Browser Helper Objects, browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, Trojans, worms, dialers, adware, and spyware.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

IMPLEMENTATION OF ANTIVIRUS<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Integrating comprehensive antivirus protection secures:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n