Whitelisting knowledgebase to be used in future security products.
A strategic partnership has been announced between
Kaspersky Labs
and application control specialist
Bit9
.
The deal will allow
Kaspersky
, best known for the excellent response times and detection rates in its anti-malware products, to integrate data from
Bit9
‘s sizeable database of file information, covering over 4 billion items of commercial and open-source software and including trust information as well as data on file sources and usage.
The whitelisting data will be used in unspecified ‘future products’, to provide ‘more granular threat protection’, according to
Kaspersky Labs
CEO Eugene Kaspersky. A press release on the deal is
here
.
Posted on 06 November 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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