Episode 45 – Clouds, Communities and New Models for Anti-Virus
Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, talks with Al Huger, serial security start-up entrepreneur, on Huger’s latest venture, Immunet. Huger believes that the rapid mutation of malware has oustripped the ability of signature-based anti-virus products to cope with it. Immunet proposes a community-based cloud approach, where communities of similarly employed computers (for example, an enterprise-office worker community, or 18-25 year old social media junkie community) share information in a cloud and take measures to stop aberrant behaviors. Although Huger says his company focuses initially on consumer markets, Amrit believes that enterprises might also take to this approach.
