Why Seculution?

Why should I use Application Whitelisting as an antivirus solution?

An average of 180 days pass before an attack is detected.

350,000 new computer viruses are created every day.

One antivirus solution that can handle it all.

Whitelist

The most secure and reliable defence against any unwanted software is Application-Whitelisting. While a virus scanner defines and blacklists what is forbidden while allowing all unknown files start, a whitelist defines what is used for your processes. Nothing else can be started unless it is whitelisted.

In this way, all malware is automatically blocked. This protection cannot be overcome by constant modifications of the malware. The verification method based on hashes makes it impossible to use cryptographic methods to generate malware which uses the hash of software that has been defined as trustworthy.

Blacklist

Since malware has been specifically modified to remain undetected, virus scanners have lost tremendous efficacy. A blacklist can only be used to block everything that is already known - be it a certain malware or a certain behaviour. If the malware and its behaviour are not known to the virus scanner, it can cause undetected damage to the network.

The fact is, that hundreds of networks are attacked by malware every day, even though state-of-the-art virus scanners maintain up-to-date blacklists and perform complex behaviour-based analyses.

As a result, the number of successful attacks continues to rise, as the Identity Theft Resource Center's surveys have shown for over 10 years.

What is the reason behind successful Application-Whitelisting?

Seculution is a modern antivirus product and offers far more protection than virus scanners can ever provide.

For example, Seculution's finely tuned application control provides much more than just computer protection against malware. The reason for the superior protection is the principle of application whitelisting.

"Application whitelisting should be used to ensure that only allowed programs and scripts are executed."
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) 2018
Basic protection Compedium 2018