Cloudmark, Inc., the proven leader in
real-time messaging security, stopped the “storm” virus a full 6 to 20
hours before all other anti-virus firms. Targeting hundreds of thousands of
computers globally, the worm touted the numbers of people lost to European
snow storms. Cloudmark saw — and stopped — the virus yesterday at 2:00 PM
PST, a full six hours sooner than the nearest competitor and up to 20 hours
faster than some.
In light of the “storm worm’s” aggressive propagation rate, company
researchers say a significantly higher number of individuals would have
been hit and service provider storage space severely compromised had
Cloudmark not stopped the virus so quickly. Initial theories point to a
large amount of seeding before the virus was turned on, probably done as an
attempt to thwart traffic-based analysis.
With these new classes of rapidly proliferating viruses, fast response time
is critical to an effective anti-virus strategy. Vipul Ved Prakash,
Cloudmark’s founder and chief scientist, said, “Networks that were not
protected by Cloudmark were definitely affected by this virus. Every minute
that a new virus is allowed to propagate across the network widens the
service provider’s window of vulnerability significantly. This means that
exponentially more subscribers are impacted which leads to service
degradation and customer dissatisfaction.”
Intelligent Message Fingerprinting for Viruses
Cloudmark Authority Anti-Virus™ is able to block new viruses, worms and
mutated threats faster than traditional or other “zero-hour” AV solutions
by virtue of Cloudmark’s unique intelligent message fingerprinting
algorithms. These algorithms generate fingerprints on messages and
attachments for real-time identification of viruses and other threats.
Cloudmark AV fingerprints are resistant to viral mutations so viruses that
have “morphed” in form (for example, changes in text, code, URL, sender and
image) are also detected. If a single message is found containing a
verified virus fingerprint, it is blocked within seconds.
Cloudmark’s approach contrasts dramatically with systems that rely on rules
or heuristics that tend to be time and resource consuming, or pattern
detection that actually requires witnessing a certain volume of incidents
to spread before starting to block. Cloudmark Authority Anti-Virus does
not need to detect a large number of attacks to begin blocking. It also
does not require manual intervention or endless rules writing. Cloudmark
Authority Anti-Virus stops viruses and their variants before traditional
and even other “zero-hour” solutions, narrowing the service provider’s
window of vulnerability significantly.
About Cloudmark
Cloudmark, Inc. delivers the industry’s fastest and most accurate
anti-spam, anti-phishing, and anti-virus solutions. Founded in 2001 by
pioneers in messaging anti-abuse, Cloudmark architected an innovative
approach combining intelligent message fingerprinting with the world’s
largest
real-time threat detection network. Cloudmark solutions protect more than
180 million mailboxes and 60+ ISP networks worldwide with customers and
partners including NTT Communications, Time Warner, Cox Communications,
Charter Communications, Vodafone, and SUN. A privately held, San
Francisco-based company, Cloudmark’s comprehensive portfolio addresses the
unique needs of Service Provider, enterprise and desktop users. For more
information about Cloudmark, visit http://www.cloudmark.com .
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