The Internet is quickly becoming a 21st century Wild West. More users are joining the global Internet community, and computer viruses and worms are spreading more rapidly than ever before. This explosion of new users and rash of fast-spreading threats is forcing us to rethink the anti-virus paradigm. How will it be possible to
distribute new virus definitions five times per day to 300 million Internet users to protect against a Super-Melissa that makes last year’s Melissa look tame?
Increasingly, one solution stands out. We need to migrate anti-virus functionality from the home computer and the corporation into the Internet infrastructure itself. By integrating anti-virus technologies directly into the ISP and backbone provider’s hardware and software infrastructure, we can provide an increased level of security to all Internet users while drastically reducing the magnitude and complexity of
keeping the anti-virus software updated.
Unfortunately, deploying anti-virus technologies on the Internet backbone itself is a far from simple task. Stability, latency, scalability and availability are issues of utmost importance to Internet providers who make their money on delivering content
reliably and increasingly quickly. This talk will investigate how the next generation of anti-virus software will integrate with the Internet and drill down into the challenges of making the Internet secure.
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