Symantec is wrong -- antivirus software isn't dead

Petrovic · Apr 13, 2015

Today, even the most diligent AV customer may still fall victim to malware threats, which can be taken to support Dye’s belief that the anti-virus industry may be dead. However here at OPSWAT, we aren’t so quick to throw in the towel. We agree with Dye up to the point that traditional AV software may be out of pace to keep up with advanced persistent threats (APTs), but we have a new innovative solution- and there’s nothing "traditional" about it. Traditional, or stand-alone AV software, lacks the multi-layered protections necessary to keep up with polymorphic threats. Harley reiterated Pierre Vandevenne’s (an ex colleague of Harley's) views on the future of AV in his article; Vandevenne says that:

"Traditional stand-alone AV (essentially the scan-detect-protect-clean paradigm) should definitely be dead. Multi-layered protections with web browsing protection, DNS monitoring, in the cloud file checks and heuristics, real time analysis of new and/or infrequent or unique executables (of all kinds) are definitely needed but won’t ever reach the near perfect protection levels the AV industry offered at very specific and short lived moments in the history of malware".
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vojta · Apr 13, 2015

So Symantec is right.

chillstream · Apr 13, 2015

How many traditional AVs are even still out there on the market?

Even free AV products now offer url scanning, file ratings, cloud lookups and analysis, some form of behavior blocking in addition to traditional signature and heuristics based scanning, blocking and removal. Not to mention that some employ own HIPS, DNS or sandbox solutions. All that and more is available also in paid offerings.

That AV paradigm in the sense how Symantec mentioned it a year ago has been long dead and buried.

So why is this topic brought up again?

ronjor · Apr 13, 2015

See older thread. https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...eclares-av-dead-and-doomed-to-failure.363521/

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