iPrism Antivirus/Malware Protection

The Malware Threat

No one has to tell you how time consuming and dangerous spyware and malware infections can be. Once they invade your network, they are notoriously difficult to defeat. Ads, pop-up windows or malicious agents can be delivered via a number of routes – the Internet, email or IM. These malicious agents can damage your networks and workstations or slow operations to a crawl. They can turn your PCs into “zombies” that spew spam from your company to other victims, causing your domain to be blacklisted. Overworked IT administrators are left to deal with employee complaints and the degradation of network performance.

Once they have found a home in your organization, the malicious agents can be a nightmare to eradicate. Some of them automatically reinstall after you have attempted to remove them and others hide deep within your systems attaching themselves to legitimate applications. Clearly, the most effective way to combat these unwanted agents is to never let them gain entrance to your network in the first place.

iPrism Web Filter with Authentium Antivirus

iPrism Web Filter employs Authentium Antivirus for robust, accurate and comprehensive defense against viruses and malware. Even if you are already using an antivirus solution, iPrism with Authentium antivirus adds another layer of security by scanning all incoming HTTP traffic and blocking malware before it can reach your end-users. The Authentium anti-virus runs “on-box”, meaning simple deployment and management, and no extra hardware is required. Plus, you get even more protection because the powerful and proprietary iGuard database also blocks sites known to carry spyware and malware.

The Authentium Difference

Authentium antivirus includes the key components of effective and accurate malware protection:

• Real-time scanning -- With millions of users worldwide, Authentium scans more than 3 billion emails per week, continuously identifying and blocking malicious agents. To date, more than 450,000 agents have been identified and blocked.
• Unsurpassed Accuracy – the Authentium antivirus engine uses a four-factor detection system that virtually eliminates false positives and false negatives, streamlining performance in critical high-throughput environments

• Four Factor Detection:

  • Signatures -- The technique of identifying unique characteristics of a piece of malware which are compared against every file scanned. An exact match means detection of malware, while a partial match indicates a new variant of the malware. Authentium’s signature database is the largest on record with well over 450,000 discrete pieces of malicious code identified.
  • Advanced Heuristics -- Heuristics are rules that describe dangerous behavior by malicious software. Antivirus technology that can recognize damaging behavior doesn’t have to solely depend on signatures. That’s why Authentium scans virus files for program instructions and notes which instructions represent the essential damaging behavior. Authentium’s advanced heuristics technology helps to limit the size of antivirus definition files and keeps iPrism ahead of the virus creators.
  • Emulation – Authentium uses emulation to create far richer heuristics scans than conventional antivirus technologies. Authentium's antivirus engine can simulate execution of a program and see which Windows operating system calls the program attempts. This allows our Antivirus engine to identify malicious behavior in a safe environment separate from the host operating system.
  • Neural Network Detection -- Authentium’s Antivirus works intelligently, learning from the behaviors and characteristics of identified malware code to identify and block new threats.