Taking security to the clouds

Major cybersecurity vendors have, in recent months, released software that seeks to identify viruses, Trojans and various forms of malware on severs connected to the Internet rather than wait until they infect the desktop PC. Forbes.com reports that F-Secure, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro have moved into this new territory, hoping to protect their customers' machines by performing more analysis as a networked service.

This cloud-based approach, they hope, will be a more effective strategy for blocking new malicious code. This move comes has more and more desktop machines are being infected by malicious software. The cloud-based solution is designed to more quickly block the bad actors, and do so across a broader spectrum as opposed to waiting for individual databases of newly identified malware signatures to be downloaded to a PC.

For more on cloud-based solutions
- check out this forbes.com article