Skeptic™: Setting New Standards in Threat Protection
Skeptic™ is our proprietary technology ecosystem that represents a unique but essential component in the anti-malware defenses we deploy on our clients’ behalf.
Predictive and proactive, Skeptic™ delivers unrivalled zero-hour protection from even the most sophisticated and targeted security threats, monitoring, tracking and blocking them at the internet level, well away from your network
Totally Up-to-date, Absolutely Unique
Skeptic™ achieves its remarkable results by harnessing heuristics and a wide range of other leading-edge techniques to scan and assess billions of electronic communications every week. Crucially:
- Skeptic™ learns from every single message it scans, using this information to update itself automatically and further enhance its phenomenal threat detection capability
- Skeptic™ reacts instinctively and immediately to any new threat, even from previously unknown sources, and so specializes in nullifying emerging threats that evade other vendors’ security solutions
Always Growing, Constantly Evolving
MessageLabs first introduced Skeptic™ in 1999 as an anti-virus technology and we’ve been investing in and improving it ever since.
Today, it comprises a total ecosystem encompassing a suite of technologies that enable us to provide unbeatable protection against ‘conventional’ threats, and to offer innovative and agenda-setting Converged Threat Analysis capability.
Distinctive Features, Definite Benefits
Skeptic™ lies at the core of the services MessageLabs provides. It is able to deliver unmatched ability in the detection of viruses, trojans, spam and phishing, plus proven superiority over other security solutions, because:
- Skeptic™ does not just rely on one or a few detection techniques
- Skeptic™ incorporates our proprietary signaturing system, a ‘reputation database’ collating information about message sources, and network layer techniques that detect threats earlier during scanning
- Skeptic™’s effectiveness increases, the greater the volume and diversity of traffic that it scans
- Threat data collected by Skeptic™ is shared globally across our network in real time
- Skeptic™ enables MessageLabs to offer unique protection against positively identified viral URL links within emails
Features like these result in direct, tangible business benefits for our clients. Efficiency, productivity, data confidentiality and legal compliance are all enhanced.
The Next Steps for Skeptic™
Looking ahead, Skeptic™ will carry on evolving and outstripping the ingenuity of new malware as soon as it appears, and so continue to set the benchmark in messaging and web security for business worldwide.