Stacked Security Tools Detect Less Malware Than Predicted: Study

TheKid7 · May 27, 2013

Stacked Security Tools Detect Less Malware Than Predicted: Study:

Security companies tend to use the same threat data to construct their defenses against the latest attacks, a practice that causes different security products to fail to catch specific attacks more often than expected, according to a report released by security information firm NSS Labs.

In tests over the past 18 months, the company evaluated 37 intrusion-prevention systems, antivirus programs and next-generation firewalls and found that none of them stopped every exploit in the company's testing pool. While 19 out of the 606 combinations of two security products were able to stop all the exploits, combining two products tended to not produce the level of improvement expected, Stefan Frei, research director at NSS Labs, told eWEEK.

"Layered security performs well if you do the right combinations," he said. "If you don't do the right combinations, you will not see as much benefit."..........
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http://www.eweek.com/security/stacked-security-tools-detect-less-malware-than-predicted-study/

ronjor · May 27, 2013

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