Cyphort unveils its new Advanced Threat Defense Platform

Cyphort, a San Jose, CA, based security firm, this week said it has emerged from stealth mode with the official launch of its advanced threat detection (ATD) platform, which is able to detect malware variants used in the recent Target attack. Here’s my notes from a conversation with Anthony James, VP of marketing and product at Cyphort: Advanced Threat Detection (ATD)  is based on behaviors rather than signatures because those change all the time.  We can detect malware without needing a signature. By then its too late. We use different types of sandboxing to isolate the threats because advanced malware knows how to protect itself from generic sandboxing.