- Bloomberg News
Protecting a company from data theft traditionally involves setting up a secure perimeter. But with computer crime growing in recent years, International Business MachinesIBM -0.77% has a new approach: spotting threats before the crown jewels are stolen.
On Monday, IBM announced a new security product that it says uses data mining and “behavioral analytics” to keep out hackers.
Antivirus software generally looks for “signatures,” or code belonging to known viruses or other malicious software. One problem with this approach is that it is hard to keep ahead of all the new viruses getting cooked up. Symantec, which invented commercial antivirus software a quarter-century ago, now says such tactics are doomed to fail.
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