Lenny Zeltser on Information Security: How Antivirus Software Works: 4 Detection Techniques →
Though endpoint antivirus tools may differ in their implementation of malware-detection approaches, the tend to incorporate the same 4 essential techniques. In an article for SearchSecurity, I described at a high level how these techniques function, covering:
- Signature-based detection
- Heuristics-based detection
- Behavioral detection
- Cloud-based detection
Read the full article to more about these aspects of antivirus tools running on endpoint systems. If you’re not a member of the SearchSecurity website, you can scroll past the initial footer of the page to read the full article.
— Lenny Zeltser
