Dr.Web Antivirus kernel for NGFW

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2023: Antivirus Kernel Introduction for NGFW

Dr.Web On June 16, 2023, introduced the Dr.Web antivirus kernel for NGFW.

One of the main trends in the Russian cybersecurity market was the creation of Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) - the latest generation firewall that integrally protects enterprise Networks against intrusions and threats. However, in order to ensure a full-fledged and comprehensive protection, built-in antivirus kernel required - in NGFW Western developers who left our market, antivirus was often included in composition of the product. The company "Doctor Web" offers Russian developers, which replaced Western vendors, use in their solutions streaming scanning core of Dr.Web antivirus, which can be integrated into NGFW.

Next-generation firewalls are better at recognizing threats and blocking potentially dangerous traffic. As of June 2023, more exist on the Russian market a dozen players who develop such solutions. But to filter and the check functioned fully, integration of the antivirus kernel is required, which will allow you to find signatures harmful files in the passing through firewall traffic.

This Dr.Web solution is specially adapted for streaming scans, which allows you to analyze data and detect threats in mode Real-time on high-bandwidth devices. Harmful objects in traffic are detected by the antivirus kernel using a signature analysis: the kernel scans the data stream to identify the most common threats. It is also important that the scan is performed on-line memory.