- Bit9 Explains Flame Technology and Discusses What Makes This Advanced Persistent Threat Attack Unique – and How to Stop it

LONDON, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bit9, the global leader in advanced threat protection, will host a webcast entitled, "The Future of Cyber Espionage: Don't Get Burned by 'Flame" and Other Advanced Persistent Threats," on June 26th 2012, at 2.00pm and 7.00pm BST. Bit9 is the only IT security company to report that its technology successfully stopped what experts are calling the most sophisticated malware ever discovered, Flame. The webcast will feature Harry Sverdlove, Bit9's chief technology officer, who draws from nearly two decades of application design and analysis with industry-leading IT enterprises.

During an eight-month custom persistent attack on one of its customers Bit9's technology prevented Flame from running and executing on the customer's endpoints, laptops and servers. At this time, Bit9 is the only company to have reported that it prevented Flame from successfully executing an attack. Additionally, Iran's CERT team has revealed that 43 tested antivirus (AV) solutions failed to prevent the attack. The Flame attack is now notorious for exposing the failure of AV companies as evident by a recent open letter from Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of F-Secure. In his letter on failing to detect Flame, Hypponen writes, "What this means is that all of us had missed detecting this malware for two years, or more. That's a spectacular failure for our company and for the antivirus industry in general."

Attend this webinar to learn more about Flame, other advanced persistent threats, and what you can do to protect your organisation.

During an eight-month period that began in Autumn 2011 and stretched into Spring 2012, a Bit9 customer was consistently attacked by the Flame malware. However, thanks to Bit9's trust-based application control and whitelisting technology the malware was continually blocked from entering any of the customer's endpoints, laptops or servers.

In this webcast, Harry Sverdlove will detail the power of Flame, discuss the malware's attempts to infiltrate Bit9's customer's endpoints and describe in detail how Bit9 was able to stop the attack with its trust-based approach to security.

"Flame, like all malware, exploits vulnerabilities in enterprise systems, processes and people, and a broad and highly experienced talent pool with varied motivations is at work producing powerful targeted malware," stated John Pescatore, vice president, distinguished analyst with Gartner in a recent report*. "Use 'whitelisting' approaches for critical servers whenever possible," he added in the recommendations portion of the report.

For even more information, go to Bit9's Flame resource centre to watch the Bit9 video on Flame and download the Flame Threat Advisor Report, and more here.

About Bit9

Bit9, the global leader in Advanced Threat Protection and Endpoint Security, protects the world's intellectual property (IP) by providing innovative, trust-based security solutions to detect and prevent sophisticated malware and cyber threats. The world's leading brands rely on Bit9's award-winning Advanced Threat Protection Platform for endpoint protection and windows server security.

Bit9 stops advanced persistent threats by combining real-time sensors, cloud-based software reputation services, continuous monitoring and trust-based application control and whitelisting—eliminating the risk caused by malicious, illegal and unauthorised software. Bit9 also offers domain controller solutions to protect against modern cyber threats.

The company's global customers come from a wide variety of industries, including e-commerce, financial services, government, healthcare, retail, technology and utilities. Bit9 was founded on a prestigious United States federal research grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology – Advanced Technology Program (NIST ATP) to conduct the research that is now at the core of the company's solutions.

Bit9 is privately held and is based in Waltham, Mass; London, UK and Munich, Germany. For more information, visit https://www.bit9.com, follow us on Twitter @Bit9 , Facebook, Google+, read the Bit9 Blog.

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*Focus on the How, Not the Who, of Advanced Targeted Threats Like Flame, 30 May 2012, by John Pescatore, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner. Research ID# G00235838

SOURCE Bit9