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This advanced threat-detection service combines multi-layer sandboxing, including full system emulation and virtualization techniques, to analyze suspicious code behavior. This powerful combination detects more threats than single engine sandbox solutions, which are compute-environment specific and susceptible to evasion.

“In fewer than eight months, SonicWall has already exceeded the ambitious financial and operational metrics established for the business. We believed in this investment from day one, and we are confident this is only the first chapter of SonicWall’s success story,” said Bill Conner, SonicWall President and CEO. “Cybersecurity professionals are increasingly addressing the new cyber threats, like WannaCry, by deploying a record number of SonicWall products and services. We have the right management, the right channel partners, the right technology and the right services so businesses can run more effectively and fear less.”

Partners Flock to SonicWall in Record Numbers

The image above is a snippet of a very long report that partly shows what Cerber wants to do. Did you notice the seven different evasion tactics? Malware did not do this in the past; at least one that I remember fondly. In that past, the security industry was really trying to get the upper hand with the “explosive growth” of malicious code that was being authored and wanted to use virtual environments to run and test code. About five years ago, the industry introduced the network sandbox to the market and it was a hit, because we now had a tool where we could run potentially malicious code in an isolated environment to see if we could white or blacklist it.

We can track much of this evolution in the cybersecurity landscape with the mantra “follow the [easy] money.” In other words, the majority of attacks will move to where the attackers can make the most money with the least amount of effort. A good method of defensive security thinking, therefore, is “How can I make it significantly more difficult for someone to make money off me and my network than from someone else on the Internet?” This may remind some readers about the joke where you have to outrun the other person, not the bear, in order to survive.

According to the 2017 SonicWall Annual Threat Report released this week, organizations are facing an onslaught of new security challenges. According to the SonicWall Global Response Intelligence Defense (GRID) Threat Network, the growth in ransomware attack attempts grew by 167x year-over-year to 638 million in 2016. SonicWall has a track record of introducing continuous cybersecurity innovations to provide defense-in-depth protection against these pervasive threats, such as its award-winning cloud-based, multi-engine Capture ATP Service introduced last year.

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