

Kaspersky said the appropriate defenses must extend well beyond just personal protection. "A decade ago, there were students and kids coming up with viruses, then it became organized criminal elements. This is starting to look like a very, very, very bad Hollywood story," Kaspersky said.

"China, South and North Korea, United States, Germany, NATO.they are all assembling Cyber Warfare teams. Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of the security company said it could be looked at as the early stages of a global cyber arms race. The answer to that question is deep, multi-layered, and frankly, pretty grim. It also includes a Web console so networks can be remotely monitored and managed, and an improved reporting system.Īll these features were highlighted in one way or another today in Kaspersky's symposium on Thursday which had a general theme of "What's next in cybersecurity?" On the management side, Endpoint 8 offers broader management options for virtual machines, including support for VMWare virtual machine management, which gives full management of Kaspersky Lab products on non-persistent virtual machines. Finally, Endpoint 8 is based on Kaspersky's improved signature-and-pattern-based antivirus engine. Third, the "System watcher" function tracks client system behavior for anomalies, and can revert to states before the system was infected. Secondly, it includes application whitelisting for administrators who want to set policies against specific applications, or against entire classes of apps. On the anti-malware side, Endpoint 8 integrates with the Kaspersky Security Network, a cloud-based reputation database that is built from data submitted by millions of Kaspersky users so new definitions are acquired quickly without having to update an ever-growing local database. The new security product takes a twofold approach to network security: Deep anti-malware protection, and comprehensive management and control systems. At its Cybersecurity Symposium in New York City on Thursday, Security company Kaspersky Lab debuted the Windows version of its Endpoint Security 8 corporate security suite.
