An analysis by security firm Imperva has concluded that antivirus software is ineffective at detecting new malware threats. Even the best-performing products took at least three weeks to add a previously undetected sample to their databases. AV struggles to keep up with the always-shifting malware landscape is not new. Security experts have been saying it for as long as I’ve been writing about information security (closing in on a decade) But we’re still in a transitional period for security technology and that most us us shouldn’t be ditching AV just yet.”]
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