Grisoft makes Web Centric Acquisition
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TechRepublic
These are indeed great and dangerous times for technology. On one hand, with the general improvement in connectivity, more and more services are going online. As more and more services go online, a large chunk of confidential data in going digital as well. With so much convergence and integration of technologies, the chances for one weak access point or one flaw has the potential to affect the whole system.
It is this sort of scenario that faces the Web. With new developments in Web 2.0 features, new flaws and bugs in browsers and spam based attacks are also increasing in frequency. Traditional database driven detection techniques have a wide window of application and that time gap can prove very costly.
This is the reason seen behind Grisoft's acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs. Grisoft claims to be the fourth largest anti-virus vendor in the world and EPL's acquistion provides it with real time attack analysis and techniques for defence against Web 2.0 based attacks.
It is this sort of scenario that faces the Web. With new developments in Web 2.0 features, new flaws and bugs in browsers and spam based attacks are also increasing in frequency. Traditional database driven detection techniques have a wide window of application and that time gap can prove very costly.
This is the reason seen behind Grisoft's acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs. Grisoft claims to be the fourth largest anti-virus vendor in the world and EPL's acquistion provides it with real time attack analysis and techniques for defence against Web 2.0 based attacks.
