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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 740330 |
| Date de publication | 2018-06-26 13:00:00 (vue: 2018-07-11 17:02:48) |
| Titre | SMBs: 3 Signs It\'s Finally Time to Replace Your AntiVirus |
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Antivirus has been a foundational element of protecting endpoints at small and medium-sized businesses for going on three decades. During that time, the threat landscape has changed dramatically. Thanks to the proliferation and commodification of sophisticated hacking tools, SMBs are now seeing the types of attacks formerly leveled almost exclusively at governments and large enterprises.
These new attacks — and the inability of antivirus to block them — have eroded organizations’ trust in their existing solutions. According to a recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute, less than a third believe their antivirus can stop the threats they are seeing.
As a result, organizations are exploring their options. One third of respondents to the Ponemon survey reported they had replaced their antivirus with a competitor’s offering or a next-generation endpoint protection solution in the past 12 months. 50 percent confirmed they had kept their antivirus but supplemented it with additional solutions designed to provide better protection and/or detection and response capabilities.
While maintaining legacy antivirus alongside new protection may work for larger companies that have the budget and staff to take on and manage multiple solutions, it may not always be an effective option for small or medium-sized businesses. How do you know when it is finally time to cut your legacy antivirus loose? Here are three key signs to consider:
1) There are attacks your antivirus is not blocking
At its core, antivirus has one job to do: keep endpoints from being infected or compromised. Unfortunately, its primary method of doing that job — scanning static files to determine if they are potentially malicious — is extremely narrow and limited considering the variety of attack techniques we’re seeing today.
As Gartner points out, “Endpoint protection platforms that rely solely on signature-based malware detection are not completely effective when it comes to repacked or new malware until new signatures are distributed.... Organizations...are essentially unprotected until all their endpoints are updated with the latest signature.”
Even next-generation antivirus solutions that supplement signature matching with machine learning are still limited to scanning, analyzing, and quarantining static files written to disk. Many of today’s attacks have evolved to exploit that limitation, adopting fileless delivery techniques, instead. These are no longer theoretical threats. According to Ponemon, 77% of attacks that successfully compromised organizations in 2017 utilized fileless techniques.
The inability to block today’s evasive and fileless threats is one of the top reasons organizations cite for replacing their antivirus.
2) Your Antivirus is slowing you down
When antivirus isn’t doing its job that’s bad enough, but it can often make it harder for admins and users to do their jobs. Constant updates and file scanning are notorious antivirus pain points. In fact, when Barkly asked IT and security pros what their challenges with their current endpoint protection were, “slows down user machines” was t |
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