Make your own anti-virus signatures
Big bad malware and zero-day attacks that fly under the radar of anti-virus software are hitting enterprises everywhere. With that in mind, HBGary is coming out with a 'do-it-yourself' tool to help security managers beat back Windows-based infections or prevent them while a zero-day outbreak is underway.
Called the Inoculator, it's an appliance that would typically sit inside the network, perhaps near Active Directory, and routinely perform a detection scan on Windows-based desktops and servers for signs of malware.
"If detected, it can remove it," says Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary. At the same time, Inoculator would install what he calls a "digital antibody" for a specific malware specimen to prevent re-infection. And that signature-based antibody could also be quickly loaded onto other enterprise computers to inoculate them against what might be an ongoing zero-day attack.
