What is next-generation protection?
Next-generation protection is the category of capabilities in MDE that focuses on prevention. Comprised of client-side, real-time antivirus protection combined with near-instant cloud-delivered detections of emerging threats, and shored up by dedicated product and protection updates, it helps protect against a variety of threats, including the following:
- Viruses and trojans
- Malware or spyware
- Rootkits
What makes it next generation? I hear you ask. In the case of MDE, this is a culmination of several evolutions of traditional, signature-based, antimalware solutions, augmented by the power of cloud computing, and fed by extensive research efforts using machine learning (ML). Some key points along the way:
- Transitioning from detection through static signatures (single threats), toward definitions (threat families), and offering more robust as well as less resource-intensive protection using heuristics (probability scoring...
