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Defending Networks Against Rapidly Evolving Threats

Overview The challenge for organizations today is to stay ahead of the increasingly interconnected threat from rapidly spreading and evolving viruses and spam campaigns, phishing scams, spyware, and other threats. This paper describes how the expertise and systems in SophosLabs give businesses the rapid and reliable protection they need to ensure business continuity. It describes how, by analyzing the "genetic" make-up of programs and messages, Sophos's Genotype technology provides preemptive protection from emerging viruses and spam campaigns.

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Publisher	Sophos	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2006	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
Topics	N/A

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