Have you ever noticed how movies tend to come in waves? A few years ago it seemed like every action movie had a space theme; then the following year the big new movies featured some kind of natural disaster. This past summer it seemed like every other movie was in 3-D. Technology, as we all know, has waves too, and the security industry is no different. For example, recently there has been a lot of talk about reputation-based security and suddenly it seems like every vendor is claiming to have some type of reputation technology. But, not all technologies are created equal, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to look at what makes Symantec’s Quorum so very different.
Why is a new approach needed?
Two fairly recent trends have had a negative impact on the effectiveness of traditional approaches to security. First, many of today’s threats are highly polymorphic—they are able to easily hide because nearly every instance of the threat is ever so...
