This morning Bit9 announced our new Cyber Forensics Service, which is an “in the cloud” service that leverages our Global Software Registry™ (GSR) database, and provides another tool in an organization’s arsenal to fight the Advanced Persistent Threat. The GSR is the largest and most complete authority on software, helping users identify, authenticate and trust software.
The GSR has over 5 billion records and over 500 million unique files, and is growing at a rate of up to 20 million files each day – testament to how fast new malware signatures are coming online. Traditional, reactive antivirus approaches attempt to keep out the “known bad.” But with almost 700 new malware signatures being created every hour, and virtually all breaches the result of customized malware, how can these antivirus solutions keep up? They can’t and the results are often catastrophic and very public breaches.
Add to this that there are about 15,000 legitimate executables on the average Windows computer. With the Cyber Forensics Service, organizations can identify the “known good” quickly, and move on to identifying and protecting against more suspect or malicious software. And this investigation time can now be reduced from weeks to days, creating a solid foundation of advanced threat protection much more quickly.
Our GSR, and therefore the Cyber Forensics Service, boasts:
- The most comprehensive repository of software and software information in the world;
- Over 150 integrated software and security analyzers collecting and identifying more software than any other source;
- Runs more malware and vulnerability scanners on software files than any other source;
- Contains more metadata on each file than any other source; and,
- Grows faster than any other software identification repository.
The Bit9 Cyber Forensic Service is available immediately, with pricing starting at $50K for five forensic users/year, and is offered through an on-demand “in the cloud” web service or via a monthly disk refresh program. Visit our website to learn more.
