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McAfee, INC. lauched a Cloud Service

September 2010 by Marc Jacob

McAfee Inc. announced a McAfee Labs invention that advances the state of the art in threat detection and protection by harnessing the power of the cloud and McAfee security software installed on millions of PCs.

The newly invented technology is part of McAfee® Global Threat Intelligence™ and provides McAfee with two major benefits in the fight against the continuing onslaught of malicious software, or malware:

1) McAfee Labs researchers can now proactively search for new cyberthreats by using the millions of computers running McAfee software as discovery beacons. Researchers can use the beacons to look for suspicious activity without impacting system performance and report back through the cloud where the intelligence is used in aggregate. Once suspicious activity is identified, researchers isolate, investigate and develop and deploy countermeasures if appropriate.

2) McAfee Labs researchers can now create more advanced countermeasures that go well beyond the traditional malware fingerprints, raising the bar on cybercriminals who continuously seek to circumvent security software. The new technology allows McAfee Labs to broadly test the effectiveness of advanced countermeasures, maximizing effectiveness and also minimizing the chance of erroneous detections.

Computer security software historically detects and blocks malicious software using a database with signatures of known threats. Researchers at security software makers traditionally write these signatures based on malicious software collections that are shared in the industry. The collections are made up of samples submitted by customers or by external security experts.

McAfee Labs has seen the amount of malware hit new record highs each year over the past several years. In the first half of 2010 McAfee Labs saw, on average, more than 55,000 samples coming in each day. Cybercriminals typically create many slightly different variants of the same malicious programs in attempts to evade detection by security software.

With the newly advanced McAfee Global Threat Intelligence capabilities, McAfee Labs researchers no longer look purely at samples, but investigate more in depth and provide countermeasures based on information surrounding samples. This advanced detection makes it much harder for cybercriminals to evade detection and allows McAfee to protect against entire families of malicious code.

For example, the expanded capability allowed McAfee Labs researchers to identify, investigate and block many variants of fake security software, or scareware, before any other computer security provider. “Our priority is now driven by what malicious code is actually out on the Internet and not by the industry’s malware collections,” Gallagher said.

McAfee started using the enhanced McAfee Global Threat Intelligence capability early this year. The benefits of the new capabilities will become increasingly apparent to McAfee customers as McAfee Labs ramps up use of the capabilities over the remainder of 2010 and into 2011.

The expanded Global Threat Intelligence capabilities are part of the McAfee Trust & Safety Initiative, a company-wide effort that sets new industry standards in the areas of quality assurance, technical innovation, support & services and community awareness.


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