Almost at the same time, both international and domestic anti-virus vendors have turned to cloud security: first, Trend Micro, Rising will cloud security upgrade to version 2.0, then the consumer antivirus market in the world occupy a large share of Symantec, Mike Philippines (McAfee) have said in recent days, in fact, they are the first into "cloud security" company. To September, another 360 to provide free anti-virus service called Security Center also launched a Trojan horse library "0 upgrade" of the "cloud killing the engine," ... ... antivirus software technology and the market has never been so busy too. However, when we all thought, "Cloud security" will be the trend to replace traditional antivirus absolute mode, we found that many large international and domestic manufacturers still maintain a traditional OEM, retail, online anti-virus pattern and, This model is also dominated. Then, "Cloud security" really reform followed the pattern more than 20 years the life of the traditional anti-virus? We also so how long?
360 Hong Zhou: cloud security to subvert traditional anti-virus model
"Antivirus software 'antivirus engine + Signature Upgrade' mechanisms followed for 20 years, excessive resource consumption and delays killing the malpractice increasingly clear, cloud security will fundamentally resolve the ills that will lead the overall network security industry Change. "September 15, 360 Security Center, chairman of Hong Zhou in the version 6.0 release 360 security guards, said so when. He believes that the Internet has developed to the anti-virus software routines have been followed 20 years ago, is in itself unreasonable, even if the "anti-virus engine" optimization to the limit, the feature database optimization to the limit, a computer Power is always difficult to deal with security threats increase exponentially, therefore, must rely on the Internet cloud computing. "Some anti-virus software to upgrade the frequency and intensity characteristics of the library as a selling point to promote, I want to tell you is this: the more such anti-virus software, with a subsequent slower computers." He said.
The new 6.0 version of the 360 security guards need to upgrade the core library can be killing the Trojan horse "cloud killing the engine." Hong Zhou introduced, in essence, "cloud killing the engine" is an Internet product, it is the user's computer and not the "brain", the "brain" concentrated in the clouds, if the net off a highly efficient killing capacity lost, But this is precisely the development of cloud computing and broadband charm.
According to reports, "cloud killing the engine" and the traditional "anti-virus engine," the most intuitive difference is that traditional "anti-virus engine" principle is to regularly upgrade work in feature library, and real-time monitor in the scanning hard drives will feature library into memory, then found malware threats; "cloud killing the engine" is completely "free library" is running, the scan will be remote query 360 "Cloud security data center," the full database, fast scan can be completed in 10 seconds, the overall Saomiao But also 1 minute. IT media, according to a horizontal evaluation, 360 "cloud killing the engine" of the scanning speed of more than 10 major anti-virus engine for more than 10 times faster! The "cloud killing the engine" behind the security center 360 5000 servers and China 120 million computer terminals composed of "super cloud."
Trend Micro Zhang Weiqin: cloud security in the healthcare industry has landed
However, the 360 is not the first to introduce "no library" to run antivirus software vendor, in August this year, Trend Micro announced the launch of the virus in the terminal does not contain the security features of the library 2.0 model cloud, then general manager of Trend Micro Greater China Zhang Weiqin very proud to tell reporters that this is the world's first "0 virus signature database" of the antivirus engine.
Recently, Trend Micro also announced its Cloud Security 2.0 has landed in China's medical industry, the first use of the technology, Suzhou Municipal Hospital. According to reports, Suzhou City Hospital is in fact very great importance to information security problems, because the hospital's network must run 24 hours a day, so in addition to installing the network hardware firewall and client anti-virus software, but also for the separation of inside and outside the network, do policy control and closed the client's USB and other data input interfaces. But even so, Suzhou City Hospital is still facing two major challenges: First, some past years lurking in the various terminals of the virus, to prevent their attacks; the other is connected to the Internet as a new virus contracted, such as Web browsing is infected, view e-mail messages are infected, open the file is hidden in the files for virus infection. The hospital has 830 terminals and more than 30 servers, the network is not great, but the management of the problem is not small.
At this point, Cloud Security 2.0 Trend Micro products play a variety of new responsibilities: to install the OfficeScan client and installed on the server side virus protection software ServerProtect, so users do not need to download and deployment of any signature, the system automatically controls the clouds known The list of documents and known benign vicious database, check the endpoint or server in each file's credibility (FRT), Once the file is executed by a vicious files, OfficeScan will block the file to open or perform. This effectively curbed the outbreak of the virus within the existing, but also to prevent outside infection.
Zhang Weiqin introduced Trend Micro security behind the clouds, also invested 400 million U.S. dollars in the global establishment of five large cloud data center, 34,000 units installed in the server cloud. The cloud data center to collect data using a variety of ways to dynamically analyze malicious threats, generate dynamic reputation database, and through acts of association analysis, establish the association. "Therefore, the credibility of the safety of high clouds can achieve 99.9999% reliability." He said. According to CSG, beginning next year, Trend Micro's consumer antivirus software PC-cilin security system will be fully integrated into clouds.
McAfee Steve Redman: We return to the retail market, anti-virus
While we agree that "Cloud Security" an absolute advantage in replacing traditional antivirus software, when another major global anti-virus firm McAfee has announced a high profile: "We will return to anti-virus retail market." McAfee Asia-Pacific president Steve Redman recently said in an interview, in the past, McAfee's consumer antivirus software McAfee VirusScan Plus, has been through the OEM, and telecom operators as well as a way to download online sales, but in the future, the product Lenovo Idea products through the retail channel sales and return to the long-vacant retail market.
It seems that this trend runs counter to the anti-virus software initiatives.
The origin of matter lies in McAfee brand with Lenovo Idea of cooperation began a year ago, when both sides promising each other's technology and brand, so Lenovo Idea computer, using its "one-click access" and "one button backup" The patent, jointly developed with McAfee, introduced the "one-button recovery" of the unique features - rely on McAfee's security technology, even if the virus infected computer system crashed, the user can easily through a key recovery system data, protect computer systems and personal data security. Recently, the two sides announced that from August 2009, the association of all of the Idea brand of Windows 7 series consumer PCs are pre-loaded McAfee anti-virus security solution-McAfee VirusScan Plus. Idea computer users around the world can enjoy 90 days free McAfee VirusScan Plus, which had a free period, users in China by McAfee official website online payment or through Lenovo retail stores nationwide as many as 2000 renewals. Meanwhile, charges, McAfee, 2009 August 1 to November 30 for market promotion: buy Lenovo Idea of all computer consumers pay only 49 yuan you can get the original price of 139 yuan for the latest version combination of McAfee anti-virus + Firewall installed; addition, you can get scratch cards one spot, such as scratch coating shows "free" can be immediately returned to 49 yuan; consumer related sites harbor has enabled Log scratch cards will be able to participate in Second-line draw, have access to computers, MP3 and U disk and other awards.
These activities is undoubtedly the most traditional antivirus software, marketing model, McAfee cooperation with Lenovo, and more importantly, they see Lenovo's 2,000 retail outlets, re-Sha Hui retail market. Also, observations from the press run, the antivirus software is still the traditional "antivirus engine + virus database" model. This means that the traditional anti-virus software still has a huge living space.
"Because of China's retail space is still a great anti-virus software market." Steve Redman said, "We will not give up this market." But, he told reporters, in fact, McAfee in the long ago, in the field of enterprise-class antivirus already into the "cloud security" of the times, but not high-profile announcement only; the same time, McAfee's cloud security technology has not yet reflected in its consumer antivirus products.
This can not but think of Symantec, though its also known as the enterprise and consumer market has long been the world's business and personal users SaaS storage services (cloud computing of a kind), and its Gongneng reflected in the the Norton consumer products, but Norton still or "antivirus engine + virus database" of anti-virus model.
The only explanation, different manufacturers are taking a different product the strategy. Seen in this light, cloud computing to complete instead of the traditional anti-virus model, there is a long way to go, as long as there are users, with application requirements, there must be end products and technologies exist.