There are literally thousands of malware variants in the wild of Cyber Space and any one of them could take down your company, steal your identity or the identities of all of your customers!

We are all aware of the multitude of solutions being offered to counter these attacks, so the question arises: while CSOs and CTOs together with their teams of professional security and systems engineers defend the enterprise armed with the multitude of tools available to them, how is it that this threat continues to grow?

Those tasked with company security and charged with trying to find safe harbor for their company’s information and infrastructure have to deal with the unarguable fact that information assurance has not improved.

Two decades after the introduction of the PC and the Internet, computing prevalence has made every company a target of invisible attackers with intent to do harm.

These attackers are no longer the “script kiddies” of the past. They are organized, funded, trained, and in no mood to be deterred. While the role of CSOs will forever be entrenched in the global business economy, there are new approaches emerging which will put them back in control of their infrastructures. New technologies are now providing systemic answers to the problem of malicious software (malware), both present and future – technologies like Savant™.

Savant Protection™ has leapt ahead of traditional approaches by taking a far more encompassing view that accounts for the realities of present day chaos by introducing Savant, the first solution which eliminates the spread of any known or unknown malware without the need for inoculations, scanning, or rules. This new approach passively protects a computing system from new attacks regardless of strategy.

Gone are the days of corporate-wide outages due to previously undiscovered vulnerabilities. With Savant, the days of spread are over. Companies are now recognizing that while they concentrate on daily business, cybercrimes are being plotted by “technically sophisticated” teams driven to infiltrate and exfiltrate the enterprise.

A recent study conducted by Braun Research on behalf of IBM reflects this new reality, the results of which were drawn from 600 CIO’s located both domestically and internationally;

“The IBM survey reveals that 84 percent of IT executives of U.S. businesses believe that organized criminal groups possessing technical sophistication are replacing lone hackers in the world of cybercrime. The threat from unprotected systems in developing countries is a growing challenge, according to almost three-quarters of respondents.” 1

The problem is that these attackers know more about a company’s system flaws better than the company itself. How can this be possible? The answer is a bit unnerving in its simplicity; the invaders are consumers.

The products companies employ to build their hard and soft infrastructures are readily available for purchase or download by anyone, at any time. The hackers clearly have the advantage. They have the drive, motive, and time to create new intrusion approaches. Approaches, as of yet, unknown.