CYBER-SECURITY solutions developer Comodo Group Inc. announced on January 31 the release of its updated Advanced Endpoint Protection product. The company said in a statement the product “extends availability of its default-deny endpoint security to Mac OS X and Linux platforms, in addition to Microsoft Windows”.
The company said it added new capabilities into the product, including enhanced protection against emerging fileless malware attacks and remote admin access and remote control. The company added it released the updated product as “the constant stream of enterprise disclosures of reputation-damaging and costly data breaches proves that both conventional and so-called next generation endpoint solutions using techniques such as machine learning are inadequate in stopping new, previously unknown malware and zero-day threats”.
Citing analyst firm Gartner Inc., Comodo Group said that when 44 percent of reference customers for endpoint protection platform solutions have been successfully compromised, it is clear that the industry is failing in its primary goal: blocking malicious infections. Comodo said it believes a primary reason is that the antimalware industry stubbornly sticks to an outdated “default-allow” approach that permits unknown applications and files to run with unfettered access to system resources.
“The antimalware industry is clearly broken because it has been chasing its own tail with a default-allow security approach that, by definition, is going to allow malware infections,” Comodo CEO Melih Abdulhayoglu was quoted in the statement as saying. “The only effective way to stop zero-day, unknown threats is for our industry to move to a default-deny security posture.”