By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor
(Editor’s Note: This article refers to a video interview shot in San Jose as part of TMCnet’s “On the Road” video series. To view the entire library of videos from Road Shows and other industry shows, as well as product demos and interviews in our in-house studio, visit the TMCnet Videos home page <http://www.tmcnet.com/tmc/videos/>.)
Recently TMC’s CEO, Rich Tehrani, sat down for an interview with Bradley Antsis, vice president of Technical Strategy of M86 (News - Alert) Security. The company concentrates on providing “real-time security controls. For us, that means providing a variety of security controls, across all different network segments that people need around e-mail and Web, and for cloud.”
When asked about the difference between proactive and reactive approaches, he explained that “reactive controls are the historical controls that most organizations, typically, have used in the past.” These would include the likes of AV scanning, based on signatures, “reactive where you have to be able to see a threat and analyze it, before you can protect people against it. Those are reactive. What people need to be moving towards today are more the proactive controls.”
Antsis said “just the vast amount of malware” demands it and that “all the new attacks happening all the time, polymorphic viruses which change themselves all the time, this is all driving people to need proactive security controls.”
As examples of the kind of security he’s talking about, he named “real-time code analysis, behavioral analysis, and some of the other technologies we have inside our products.” Today, he said, you “have to get the right balance between proactive and reactive.”
Polymorphic viruses, he explained, are viruses that rebuild themselves every 20 minutes or so.
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