

However, antivirus systems are not completely useless and they still play a role today in protecting endpoints. It doesn’t prevent log file tampering and it doesn’t pay attention to the malicious use of valid software. Everyone will tell you that nowadays, blocking malware is the wrong way to secure an endpoint, it is the monitoring of events that really counts.ĪV can’t protect a network from advanced persistent threats. AI has taken over as the next big thing in cybersecurity. ‘Intrusion detection’ became a bigger headline than ‘malware detection’. Younger concepts have risen to the forefront and grabbed media attention over the past decade – all ready to point out the shortcomings of the AV formula.

As the world moved on, AVs stuck to their tried and trusted formula. Antivirus systems have progressively become the granddaddy of cybersecurity.
