The future of security? Reputation.

Norton_Nx_4c_obWhat is the future for IT security? It is a great question. It is being raised on a regular basis, more often than not, as a result of reports from all of us in the industry that we are finding more and more malware.  We at Symantec have a definite view on this. It is clear that we need to bring to market new approaches and techniques, if we are to continue to prevail. Blacklisting, is still the common approach, but many would argue that its value is diminishing rapidly. White-listing is an alternative, but many practical issues follow as result and in the end it is compromise.

We do have a vision of the ‘third-way’ for security and it is reputation based security. We have been working away steadily and diligently on this for nearly three years now. We have arrived at a point now that we are prepared to talk about it and deploy it. It finds its public expression in a technology we call ‘Quorum’ and you can see it and use it. It forms a significant part of our forthcoming Norton 2010 release, which is in public BETA. It is an interesting and somewhat head-scratching topic to address. Fortunately, if you follow this link to  the Norton Protection Blog, you can find a couple of posts and associated videos that do a fine job of explaining, just how we at Symantec are going to go about doing our job of protecting you from this point onwards.

August 11, 2009 | Filed Under Announcements, Security 

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