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CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats

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Combating Advanced Malware, Zero-Day and Targeted APT Attacks

Published November 2011

Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and Web gateways.This situation - the new status quo - results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move “low and slow” and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data.

To regain the upper hand against next-generation attacks, enterprises must turn to true next-generation protection: signature-less, proactive and real time. Through constant testing of any suspicious code and blocking of communications with malicious hosts, next-generation protections combat advanced malware, zero-day and targeted APT attacks that bypass defenses like next-generation firewalls, IPS, antivirus, and Web gateways. Read more.

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