The future of antivirus /cybersecurity programs may be Hyperion technology , developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy: "Hyperion" allows for the rapid "identification" of malicious software, even if the dangerous program has not been demonstrated/detected in the past as a threat...
Hyperion analyzes and evaluates the "behavior" of programs with malicious intent, as it can "see" inside an executable program to determine its "intentions" without using source code or "running" the program in question, according to one of its creators, Stacey Prowell of ORNL's Cyber Warfare Research Team.
"These 'behaviors' can be automatically checked for known malicious operations, as well as individual domain problems," he says. " technology helps identify vulnerabilities and can reveal dangerous material before it can be put into operation."
Hyperion, which has been in development for a decade, provides increased and more extensive scanning capabilities than other cybersecurity methods.
"This approach is better than signature detection, which only looks for patterns of bytes. It's easy for someone to hide this - they can break it into pieces and spread it around the program so that it doesn't look like a registered 'signature'.".
R&K Cyber Solutions, which obtained the relevant license, is expected to make this technology available in January.
"Software behavior computation is an emerging science and technology that will have a significant impact on malware analysis and software assurance," says Joseph Carter, the company's CEO, adding that unlike other methods, it does not just look at the "surface", but at deeper functional patterns.
He adds that the analytical capabilities of this technology can be used in various cybersecurity problems, including software assurance in the absence of source code, hardware/software data exploitation, etc.
Source: planet-greece.blogspot.com
