NWC News Network, Sept. 4 2008, 1730 hrs
F-Secure, the anti-virus software and security tools provider’s Wellbeing 2009 family of consumer IT security products deliver enhanced protection against new online threats. With the DeepGuard 2.0 technology, which recognizes both safe and malicious software instantaneously using a real-time protection network, the company is now able to protect the online well-being of its customers in a faster manner. Instead of just using one-way comparisons of a suspicious program against white lists and black lists, the company's real-time protection network uses intelligent nodes with behavioral analysis capability to increase the efficiency of this ‘in-the-cloud’ approach.
DeepGuard is a behavior-based detection engine designed to block new malware from infecting a system by analyzing how the file behaves when it is executed on the client computer. It adds the company's real-time protection network capability to the local analysis. When a new potentially malicious program appears anywhere in the world, the first participating F-Secure protected computers that encounter it take a fingerprint of the file and instantly query the company’s highly automated security labs to see if the file can be allowed to run.
It only takes fractions of a second to query the server for the status of a file and for the technology to analyze the behavior of the executable locally. In this way participating computers of the real-time protection network help provide information that instantly benefits the security of the whole community, bypassing the time it has traditionally taken to send out virus database updates.
“We're introducing another industry first with the real-time protection network that complements the traditional reactive and proactive technologies,” said Pirkka Palomäki, Chief Technology Officer at F-Secure Corporation. “No other vendor has such ‘in-the-cloud’ protection for consumers deployed globally. This is an example of our continuous innovations in the fight against the increasingly professional online criminals, who are producing more targeted and previously unseen viruses at an unprecedented rate.”
The F-Secure Wellbeing 2009 family includes products and services like Internet Security 2009, Anti-Virus 2009, Home Server Security 2009, Health Check and Online Wellbeing portal.
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