By now the long-term trends are alarmingly and unambiguously clear: detection-based defense in depth has utterly failed, having compiled a miserable track record over the past 30 years.
Evidence of major breaches on a weekly basis continues to show detection as an exhausted security strategy that has completely run its course and should now rightfully be discarded.
The rise of the targeted attack is shredding what is left of the anti-malware market’s stubborn commitment to reactive protection techniques.it is clear that the industry is failing in its primary goal of keeping malicious code off PCs.”
The whitepaper describes the SANS Security Maturity Model that clearly lays out a progression of defensive capabilities relating to end user devices, which continue to be the source of approximately 70% of successful malware breaches.