Technology Process: Comprehensive Protection
Keeping your house secure by just locking the doors doesn't make sense if you don't also lock your windows, and secure your doggie door. Likewise CyberDefender's universal threat management platform provides more than just a single solution to a single class of security problem. We address all of the types of attacks your computer is likely to experience:
- Adware
- Hijacking
- Spyware
- Hacking
- Key Loggers
- Malware
- Viruses
- Trojan Horses
- Phishing
- Rogues
You shouldn't have to think about what all of these things are and whether you are protected from all of them. That's our job.
Finding Problems Fast
There are endless ways that hackers have tried to fool your computer into doing things that you don't want it to. CyberDefender's approach to solving this problem relies on two basic strategies. One is having the most comprehensive sources for information about the latest kinds of attacks being attempted across the Internet. We have three approaches to getting the best information possible about live threats in the wild. One is that we are constantly searching the Internet for new threats. Our automated "robots" visit huge numbers of sites each day and search them for questionable contents. Another is that we enlist the computers of all of our customers to watch for suspicious applications, so rather than just a few computers that we own searching for trouble, we have hundreds of thousands of them. Third, we cooperate with several other companies that have their own mechanisms for discovering threats and incorporate any additional threats they discover in our lists too. This provides the most comprehensive catalog of live threats possible.
Getting The Word Out Quickly
Once we have discovered what programs and websites have suspicious software on them we have a complex and difficult job to do. We have to identify these threats, categorize them, develop instructions on how to identify them on your computer and to remove them and deliver a copy of that data to your computer as quickly as possible.
CyberDefender uses patent pending peer to peer networking technology to distribute updates. This means that rather than just one server handing out copies of the software, hundreds of thousands of computers in our network deliver the update almost immediately to everyone. Getting the update quickly means more protection against threats during the early stages when it's spreading.
