Security Response

The mass adoption of both consumer and managed mobile devices in the enterprise has increased employee productivity, but has also exposed the enterprise to new security risks. Our latest research is a deep dive into the current state of mobile device security. You can read the whitepaper in its entirety here.

More than anything else, the analysis shows that while the most popular mobile platforms in use today were designed with security in mind—and certainly raise the bar compared to traditional PC-based computing platforms—they may still be insufficient for protecting the enterprise assets that regularly find their way onto these devices.

Today’s mobile devices also connect to an entire ecosystem of supporting cloud and desktop-based services. The typical smartphone synchronizes with at least one public cloud-based service that is outside enterprise control. At the same time, many users also directly synchronize...

This year's Cutting Edge, Symantec's internal conference "for engineers, by engineers," promises to be an interesting one. Why? The last few years have brought serious challenges to the dominant antivirus fingerprinting approach. Right now, the security industry is built around the fingerprinting model – all of our processes, our automation, our data collection, our publishing systems – they’re all designed around the blacklisting model. 
 
Unfortunately, while the industry had its head down honing the blacklisting approach (Symantec can automatically analyze and fingerprint up to 6M samples per week – how’s that for honing?), the rest of the world changed. Recent Symantec studies show that the volume of malware released now outpaces good software (potentially representing up to 65% of all unique software apps). Furthermore, industry reviews show that many new malware programs slip past all major antivirus products...