Bit9
Nov 1st, 2008
This article originally appeared in Bank Technology News.
Is it time to get out of the anti-virus arms race? If new security vendor Bit9, Inc. gets its way, banks may soon be able to eliminate virus scans altogether. Instead of trying to track every new virus and piece of malicious codes that appears, the Waltham, MA-based security vendor allows only the good software to run.
Today, the company has an index of over seven billion applications that fall into the “good guy” category. If a user wants to run a new piece of software, it’s checked against this list, and if it’s not on the list, it doesn’t run.