The data is in for anti-malware vendors testing against a honey pot as of November 21,2006 at malware-test.com. What is shows is a MAJOR FAILURE IN THE ABILITY OF ALL MAJOR ANTI-MALWARE VENDORS TO PROTECT YOUR ENTERPRISE.
The best cleanup success rate was 49.64%. In other words, the best software would have missed 50% of the attacks!!!!
What is even worse, THIS TREND HAS BEEN MORE OR LESS THE SAME SINCE SEPTEMBER.
The scene is grim as we approach the end of 2006. Organized crime has much better tools to attack an enterprise than do the "good guys". By using their botnets and their malware, criminals are staying ahead of the best efforts of anti-malware vendors.
This is not just a little problem. It's a serious BIG problem in that too many enterprises are almost totally reliant upon their firewall, anti-virus and their intrusion detection and prevention systems WITH LITTLE SECURITY BEHIND IT.
CAVEAT EMPTOR! Make sure that you have multiple layers of strong authentication behind your firewall. If you don't, you might as well hang a sign on the enterprise front door saying "COME ON IN, THE DOOR IS UNLOCKED AND OPEN".
Guy
www.authenticationworld.com
guy.huntington@authenticationworld.com
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