Rethinking Antivirus: Executable Analysis in the Network Cloud

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Date:

26-07-2007
Vendor:

University of Michigan
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Whitepapers
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228.5 KB
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PDF, Acrobat Reader
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5

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Antivirus software installed on each end host in an organization has become the de-facto security mechanism used to defend against unwanted executables. This paper argues that the executable analysis currently provided by host-based antivirus software can be more efficiently and effectively provided as an in-cloud network service. Instead of running complex analysis software on every end host, the paper suggest that each end host run a lightweight process to acquire executables entering a system, send them into the network for analysis, and then run or quarantine them based on a threat report returned by the network service.

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Rethinking Antivirus: Executable Analysis in the Network Cloud