New cyber security tool introduced for Dar market

SUNDAY NEWS Reporter

SOPHO has introduced new technology that uses progressive behaviour analytics, forensics and collective intelligence to discover and remove code from zero-day threats, Trojans, rootkits, polymorphic malware, irritating cookies, spyware and adware.

The general manager and senior vice-president for Enduser Security at Sophos Dan Schiappa said that built on technology acquired from SurfRight B.V. in December last year, the technology represents the next generation of malware detection and removal tools that can detect known and unknown threats.

The on-demand scan does not need to be installed, which is particularly useful in cases of ransomware infection or in situations where malware is manipulating installed security software.

“The need for next-generation endpoint protection that doesn’t rely on signatures is long established. Zero-day threats and some ransomware like Cryptolocker can only be detected by the integrated capabilities of exploit prevention, behaviour analytics and pre-execution heuristics built into our endpoint protection software today,” he said.

Resilient malware attacks critical system files or boot records to manipulate Windows and antivirus software -- even before the operating system boots.

Sophos Clean can remove persistent threats from within the operating system and replace infected Windows resources with safe original versions. Reinfection attempts are proactively blocked until threat remediation has finished.

“Today’s malware is persistent by design: difficult to detect, difficult to remove and difficult to recover from,” commented Simon Reed, vice- president of SophosLabs