The cybersecurity landscape has changed dramatically during the past decade, with threat actors constantly changing tactics to breach businesses’ perimeter defenses, cause data breaches, or spread malware. New threats, new tools, and new techniques are regularly chained together to pull off advanced and sophisticated attacks that span across multiple deployment stages, in an effort to be as stealthy, as pervasive, and as effective as possible without triggering any alarm bells from traditional security solutions. Security solutions have also evolved, encompassing multi-stage and multi-layered defensive technologies aimed at covering all potential attack vectors and detecting threats at pre-execution, on-execution, or even throughout execution. Multi-Stage Detection All malware is basically code that’s stored (on disk or in memory) and executed, just like any other application. Delivered as a file or binary, security technologies refer to these states of malware detection as pre-ex...
