F-Secure unveils protection against patchless vulnerabilities
F-Secure has announced the availability of the industry’s first fully integrated vulnerability protection to include defence against so-called zero-day attacks. Such attacks, which exploit vulnerabilities for which there is no patch yet available - or possibly even before the vulnerability is announced - go unnoticed by existing signature-based defence mechanisms.
F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6.0 and F-Secure Policy Manager 6.0 use behaviour-based analysis to recognise if a piece of malware is trying to install itself onto a computer, or if an illegitimate piece of code is trying to execute a process. It then quarantines the process or the computer involved, and prevents the malware spreading.
With the new solutions F-Secure introduces many features, including F-Secure Network Quarantine for both LAN/WAN and Internet access, which isolates computers with non-compliant security regardless of the location they connect to the network. Other new additions to the product include scanning of HTTP traffic for malicious code, and integrated virus outbreak alerts with monitoring of protection status in the network.
F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6.0 also includes fully integrated anti-spyware software. Compared to current industry standards, this solution provides a higher level of protection for company workstations and laptops by integrating protection against spyware, adware, hackers, viruses, worms and zero-day attacks into a single, centrally managed solution.