Symantec fuels fight against phishing scams
Symantec fuels fight against phishing scams
Sep 23, 2005: Symantec has bought WholeSecurity, a provider of behaviour-based security and anti-phishing technology, to help users defend themselves against viruses, worms and other malicious code too.
Behaviour-based security technology identifies online threats such as worms, viruses, Trojan horses, keystroke loggers, and phishing sites by their actions and characteristics.
WholeSecurity's Confidence Online analyses the behaviour carried out by these threats against hundreds of detection modules to determine whether the active processes or web sites are safe or malicious. It can immediately detect and mitigate unknown threats by their behaviour without traditional signatures or patches.
Enrique Salem, the senior vice president of Symantec Security Products and Solutions, said that WholeSecurity provides industry leading protection from phishing attacks, which is one of the fastest growing threats to online transactions, such as banking, e-commerce and auctions.
"In addition, WholeSecurity's family of solutions provides critical behaviour-based security technology that we expect to be a core component of Symantec's baseline consumer security and enterprise desktop solutions."
WholeSecurity's technology can deal with browser-based phishing detection and notification to on-demand delivery of malicious code detection.
Peter Selda, the president and chief executive officer, of WholeSecurity, said that his company has been the first line of defence for its customers, protecting them against new forms of malicious threats before signatures can be created.
"Combining our behaviour-based technology with Symantec's industry leading solutions will allow us to deliver this capability to a much broader audience and move us further toward our vision of providing zero-hour protection for every endpoint."
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