From RSA 2011: Last Nail in the Coffin for Signature-Based AV

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For the last two decades, the RSA Conference has enabled some of the best minds in the security industry to gather and engage in valuable discussions. For engineers like me, however, one goes to security conferences to watch and soak up the industry talk and see real, compelling security issues as they are inspected from all sides. Here, new technologies and technology applications are dissected, connections are made, secret stories are revealed.

Is AV really, truly dead?

Thus, considering some truths already well-known to security practitioners, it might appear quite strange to see a panel entitled, “The Death of Signature-Based AV: How to Stop Today and Tomorrow’s Malware.” We already know that malware volume is growing exponentially, and that just as technology has evolved, the number of threats and the means by which they are delivered have also changed over the years, so one-is-to-one signatures are no longer effective overall.

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