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4 Best Antivirus Software of 2021

eSecurity Planet

What’s the best antivirus software? With the rise in malware and ransomware and a growing reliance on the internet, antivirus solutions are critical for protecting your data and applications. Top 4 antivirus software. Bitdefender. Other AV contenders. Bitdefender Total Security. Credit card protection. Two-way firewall.

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‘Data poisoning’ that leverage machine learning may be the next big attack vector

SC Magazine

Data poisoning attacks against the machine learning used in security software may be attackers’ next big vector, said Johannes Ullrich, dean of research of SANS Technology Institute. Data poisoning has been involved signature-based antivirus in the past. (Amy Sacka for Microsoft).

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Security Yearbook’ preserves cybersecurity history — highlights tectonic shift

The Last Watchdog

Cybersecurity, which started with antivirus suites, spam filters and firewalls, has mushroomed into a $103 billion industry. And now we have machine learning and artificial intelligence trying to displace that with ‘learned’ policies, instead of proscribed policies. You see it everywhere.”

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Survey: How well do IT pros know AI and machine learning?

Webroot

What do the terms artificial intelligence and machine learning mean to you? But today, as cyberattacks against businesses and individuals continue to proliferate, technologies like AI and ML that can drastically improve threat detection, protection and prevention are critical. Japan, and Australia/New Zealand.

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Crowdstrike Firewall Management Product Review

eSecurity Planet

It’s a module within the broader Falcon endpoint protection suite, which includes antivirus protection as well as optional features like EDR, threat intelligence, and threat hunting. Threat intelligence? Recommended : CrowdStrike Falcon Insight: EDR Product Overview and Features. Pro Enterprise Premium. IT hygiene?

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Why Human Input Is Still Vital to Cybersecurity Tech

SecureWorld News

It can certainly be said that advances in technology have had a huge impact on cybersecurity in recent years. It was once the case that cybersecurity technology consisted of little more than a firewall and antivirus software. With technology like this, there's no real need for human input at all.

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Supply-Chain Security and Trust

Schneier on Security

The United States government's continuing disagreement with the Chinese company Huawei underscores a much larger problem with computer technologies in general: We have no choice but to trust them completely, and it's impossible to verify that they're trustworthy. and other technologies to make decisions without human intervention.