So what's Hybrid? | In focus

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There’s been a lot talk for quite a while now surrounding how cloud technologies can help increase protection against malware. One tendency is to fall into the trap of considering the cloud as a silver bullet that can effectively solve all security related issues at once.

I agree that cloud-based protection certainly brings many advantages – both to end users and security vendors. Yes, it permits us to detect new threats much faster and deliver necessary updates to users. However, I don’t share the euphoria that is promoting this approach as a self-sufficient technique capable of tackling security threats by itself.

Users need a combination of a cloud-based and a stand-alone endpoint approach to ensure maximum protection – regardless of the presence of an Internet connection. I doubt this combination will be replaced by purely cloud-based protection in the foreseeable future. And even if we ever do reach 100% global Internet coverage – and, by extension – possibly 100% cloud-based protection coverage – localized security concerns will of course persist, as will the sophisticated malware mentioned as the third issue above, which need to be tackled with strong endpoint solutions.

Please disregard the security vendor, this article was written by Eugene Kaspersky. Consider this article as a reference and this so called "hybrid technology" has been used not only by Kaspersky but by almost any known security brands for some time. Oh, don't forget to watch the creative video presentation.

http://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/08/...id-protection/

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