McAfee has stressed the need for the security industry to take a more proactive position against cybercriminals. In the light of the recent cyberespionage, the breakup of cybercrime rings, and the threats that sophisticated malware such as Stuxnet present to critical infrastructures, McAfee Labs researchers and industry experts call for a more proactive strategy for fighting cybercrime.
"Cybercriminals prosper because they have very little reason to fear the consequences," said Jeff Green, Senior Vice-President, McAfee Labs.Ā "As security experts, it is time to take a hard look at what we do, how we do it, and what our ultimate goals are. The tools and techniques of cybercrime continue to grow in number and sophistication at alarming rates. Every time, we release a new statistic about the rise in malware it points to our failure as an industry."
The report, titled "Security takes the Offensive," is based on strategies compiled by international experts and issues a "call to armsā to the security industry. The McAfee Security Journal outlines an offensive strategy that involves a couple of key components: proactive law enforcement and the security community banding together to help take down the offenders. McAfee Global Threat Intelligence is a comprehensive solution that scans the entire Internet and effectively uses millions of sensors to gather real-time intelligence from host IP addresses, Internet domains, specific URLs, files, images and e-mail messages.
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