daveinpoway
join:2006-07-03
Poway, CA
| reply to simmery
Re: AV Firms Scrambling to Keep Up
Perhaps I, too, am naive, but, with technology advances, this could come into existence: a Unified Threat Management appliance (like a Fortigate) on a single chip. This would update itself automatically without user intervention, and would also incorporate advanced heuristics (which would actually work, unlike the crude heuristics we have these days) to tackle threats it hasn't received updates for yet. With mass-production, these could be produced cheaply enough that every motherboard could incorporate one. To make this work, the subscription cost for the update service would have to be built into the price of the equipment, so that nobody would have to remember to renew their subscription. Basically, the user would not even be aware (nor would he/she need to be aware) that this chip was present- everything would be done silently in the background.
With this "Security Chip" filtering out malware, life on the Internet would become much safer. Probably not 100% safe, of course, but way better than today's situation. |
