You need to move away from Legacy AV right now ⌛️

Do you remember how PCs replaced typewriters in the past and how floppy disks were replaced with Compact Disks (CDs)? But do you know that there is a technology that did survive the digital revolution? It’s the Legacy Anti Virus

While many technologies have evolved during the past few decades, Many companies are still stuck with a Legacy AV solution and have missed the path ahead.

Confidence continues to decline in Legacy AV solutions. According to Ponemon Institute, Antivirus products missed an average of 60% of attacks. Apart from the lack of adequate protection, respondents also mention large numbers of false-positive alerts as a challenge in managing their current AV solutions.

Why are Legacy AVs not capable? 😴

In the past, the antivirus was more than equipped to handle when Legacy malware was the most common and severe threat in the digital space. Antivirus is specifically designed to scan, identify and eliminate malicious files.

Legacy AV solutions accomplished this using the unique identifying data discovered by security researchers and employing signature-based detection. However, legacy antivirus no longer matches the modern concept of cybersecurity prevention or the cyber threats they confront.

Signatureless malware and fileless malware are specially intended to avoid the detection capabilities of old antivirus by either hiding the identification information or bypassing safety mechanisms.

To combat these new threats, endpoint security solutions require and come with more capabilities than legacy antivirus solutions could possibly provide.

An alternative approach….That is actually better 🔥

As early as 2014 legacy AV leaders already openly admitted the limitations of their capabilities. Since then, adversaries have improved their malicious techniques, easily bypassing traditional security products with techniques like fileless malware and PowerShell exploits.

Although Legacy AV detects malware, NGAV handles a wider range of modern threat scenarios, among them fileless and ransomware-based attacks. By looking at the full context rather than just individual occurrences, Next-Generation AV provides a more effective way of recognizing and preventing sophisticated attacks and undiscovered threats.

This comprehensive contextual information enables NGAV to analyze and avoid the cause of the attack. Fast deployment and connectivity to the cloud are essential aspects of Next-Generation AV as well. It provides enhanced endpoint detection, improved response capabilities and more prevention measures. In many situations, Legacy endpoint protection products may be completely replaced.

With more efficient technology accessible presently, companies need to take into consideration the following advantages of moving away from Legacy AV:

1.Detection

Legacy AV solutions do not handle evolving threats such as polymorphic and fileless malware. As attackers are able to stay stealthy until they are ready to move, legacy AV threats are hard to discover if they first enter your environment, concealing the threat as benign files.

To recognize modern advanced threats, the NGAVs utilizes a variety of approaches that monitor file activity. They effectively identify threats efficiently and precisely since they are able to detect misbehaviour and to eliminate the threat.

2.Response

One of the many challenges for incident responding is gathering data for the investigation. Legacy AVs provide limited visibility into the activities, but next-generation AVs are capable of providing a granular view of the threat activity.

3.Ease of use

Many legacy AVs try to address the evolving threats by adding new components to the existing infrastructure, resulting in a complex system that is labour-intensive to operate and requires a high level of security expertise.

Most NGAVs have the ability to automatically group the incidents, identify the attack and produce a clear picture with the context of what happened which will be beneficial for any user who may or may not have expertise.

4. Saves time

When it comes to your organizational security, time is a key aspect. Did you know that your security specialists waste their precious time collecting evidence of an incident using legacy AV? You want your safety staff to concentrate on what’s important, with the minimum amount of time.

Legacy AV replacement is easier than you think 🤔

Flix11 is a reputed Cyber Security company in Sri Lanka that is capable of assisting your organization to move away from Legacy AV. We have experience in deploying Top Notch Next-Generation AVs & other cybersecurity solutions to many of the leading companies in Sri Lanka.

If you’d like to learn more on how you can prevent, detect and respond to today’s modern threats better, faster with next-generation AV, Call us on +94 114 700 555 to get in touch with our experts.