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Sunday, October 06, 2013

Tricks of the malware trade...and what the enterprise can learn from them.

Security specialist FireEye recently published a report called 'Hot Knives Through Butter: How Malware Evades Automated File-based Sandboxes' report, which revealed a number of techniques used by malware developers in order to sidestep signature-based defenses during attacks. But why should you care? And, how does understanding the techniques employed by malware authors to evade detection from file-based sandboxes benefit security professionals when it comes to identifying the potential for broader attacks in the enterprise?
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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