NetworkWorld: Can anti-virus technology morph into breach detection systems?

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Such breach detection systems would need a centralized management reporting system and cloud-based analysis of gathered threat data.

By Ellen Messmer
March 12, 2014

Anti-virus software is still often considered a "checkbox" item for enterprise deployments, especially on Microsoft Windows, but over the decades, anti-virus software changed to do far more than just signature-based virus blocking. Today, the question is whether the type of anti-malware product that evolved from virus checking can transform again to be a part of a "breach detection system," or BDS.

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