What is Next-Generation

Antivirus?

Traditional Antivirus

No Longer Works

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TRADITIONAL ANTIVIRUS

Traditional AV takes a malware-centric view of endpoint security; identifying

malicious software by matching it to pre-identified signatures and heuristics.

Malware

identification

Signatures &

heuristics

Decide once,

forget forever

PERSONAL FW

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Next-Gen AntivirusA Whole New Approach

To Stopping Cyber Attacks

NEXT-GENERATION ANTIVIRUS

NGAV takes a system-centric view of endpoint security, examining every

process on every endpoint to algorithmically detect and block the malicious

tools, tactics, techniques, and procedures upon which attackers rely.

Long-term analysis to

detect attacker patterns

Data science &

threat intelligence

Deep attack

context & insight

NEXT-GEN AV:

System-Centric vs Malware-Centric

• File attributes

• File contents

• File heuristics

• Access patterns

• Registry

• Configuration

• Network Activity

• System Calls

• File attributes

• File contents

• File heuristics

NEXT-GEN AV TRADITIONAL AV

Holistic monitoring of every process over

time, whether malicious or not

Point-in-time identification of malware

based on simple rules

NEXT-GEN AVTRADITIONAL AV

Ineffective protection that

is easily bypassed by the

modern attacker

Targets all the attacker’s

tools, techniques,

tactics, and procedures

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