Neutralizer was a new feature introduced in v5.0 of eSafe, unveiled last month at the Supercomm show in Chicago. It’ll be part of the first feature release [i.e. v5.1] out shortly, said Rafi Pilosoph, director of eSafe Security Services at the Shaar-HaCamel-based developer.
Aladdin has three business units, one in digital rights management where the core product is the Hasp platform, the eToken division in strong authentication and eSafe, but clearly sees the latter as where there is most opportunity for growth at the moment.
The eSafe product has both a Mail and a Web component, and until recently the Web was perceived as more secure, with email being the problem, said Pilosoph, but several recent high-profile scandals have changed all that.
He cited the Win32.HotWord.Lip affair in his home country in May, where a Trojan was planted for the purpose of commercial espionage, the recent unleashing of 17 Trojans at a number of British government agencies and private enterprises from a bot network made up of Far Eastern IP addresses and the theft of details on some 40 million MasterCard account holders through a Web attack.
Aside from Neutralizer, v5.0 brought a number of enhancements including dual processor support, the ability to discover so-called drive-by spyware (in which the malware is downloaded without any action being required from the victim), support for POP3 in the Mail part of the product, the ability to quarantine infected users and an increased level of proactivity.
We’re picking up about 70% of exploits without waiting for signatures, said Pilosoph.
