Malware Radar technologies
The effectiveness of Malware Radar is based on the combination of a series of advanced technologies:
Collective Intelligence Technologies
The Collective Intelligence is a security platform which offers proactive and real time protection to the users. It leverages the collective knowledge and automates the analysis, correlation, classification and signature generation processes increasing exponentially the malware that it can detect every day.
This technology speeds up Panda Security's response against any type of threats, maximizing malware detection capacity and minimizing resource usage on IT systems (all the work is done in our datacenters instead of in our customer's computers).
How does Collective Intelligence work?
- Community knowledge gathering to proactively protect others.
The Collective Intelligence platform correlates the first malware detections and their evolution in real time in the different affected computers. This allows the detection of infections at initial stages or targeted attacks that only affect a few users.
- Automated and enhanced malware collection, classification and remediation.
The Collective Intelligence automates the analysis, correlation, classification and signature generation processes.
Many of the more resource-intensive proactive techniques which provide much higher detection rates can now be used massively for the benefit of the users without even touching valuable customer's CPU and memory resources.
The majority of new samples can be analyzed and classified automatically in a matter of minutes. Those samples that cannot be classified automatically are ultimately looked at by an analyst at PandaLabs.
- Gaining knowledge on techniques to improve existing technologies.
Malware detections correlation provides information about the latest techniques of malware infection and malware distribution. This information allows us to improve existing technologies and to develop new ones in order to detect more malware.
- Developing new generation of hosted security services.
Using Malware Radar, organizations can benefit from the new technologies and the highly increased detection rate Collective Intelligence provides. Thus, complementing and maximizing installed traditional security software, regardless if it is Panda's or not.
“It's a matter of survival for AV vendors, which increasingly are looking for ways to reinvent themselves as their
products struggle to thwart new types of infections.
Cloud-based, collective intelligence services are the next big thing for anti-malware. I expect that every AV vendor will need to embrace an approach like this if they expect to survive”
Andrew Jaquith, Yankee Group analyst
Heuristic technologies with a high level of sensitivity
These technologies are specialized in detecting malware behavior patterns in the files and process running on the computer.
These technologies are already incorporated in Panda's other solutions, but in Malware Radar, the level of sensitivity has been increased to the maximum to determine whether a file contains malware or not with maximum precision.
The heuristics technologies also correlate processes, drivers, services and ports and compares it to those of computers infected by different types of malware.
Rootkit detection technologies
Technologies that thoroughly scan the file system and the processes that are running to detect those that are hidden using rootkits or other techniques.
Technologies for validating installed security software
These technologies detect the resident protection on the computers scanned (regardless whether they are Panda products or not) and check the status and update level. The administrator is notified if a key module is not enabled or outdated.
System vulnerabilities detection technology
These technologies scan computers based on a list of known system vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malware to penetrate the company. This list is constantly updated by PandaLabs.