Virsec has come a long way in the past few years. As recently as 2017, its technology only focused on memory protection. 5 years, $137 million in funding and the addition of host and feedback protection later, the company is looking to revolutionise cybersecurity, quite literally, from the inside out.
Greg Kelton, Senior Regional Director for EMEA at Virsec, is on the frontlines of that revolution. The enemy? Dwell time.
“We’re seeing a monumental shift in the industry – from detection to protection response. So what does that mean? Detection response is the traditional approach to cybersecurity, stemming from traditional tools such as EDRs, WAFs, and so on. The problem with these tools is their dwell time – that’s the key phrase here. Traditional tools will detect an attack but expect a human to respond, dwell time is the interval between detection and response. A typical dwell time is 6-7 days, but ransomware takes milliseconds to kick in – an obvious flaw, right? What we’re trying to do is eradicate dwell time entirely by moving from a reactive to a proactive approach, protection response, or as we like to call it, a probabilistic to deterministic approach,” Kelton said.
It isn’t just dwell time that Kelton takes issue with. He argues that in the current system, a company must suffer a breach before they, or anyone else, can respond.
“So right now, the game looks like this: A company suffers a zero-day attack, they put their hand up and admit to it, then every other company scrambles to patch their own zero-days before they suffer an attack. What we’re trying to say is: if we ..
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