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Posture Check: Are You Still Relying On AV To Protect Your Business?

Symantec, Thursday, September 4th, 2025

Why traditional security tools don't cut it anymore-and what you can implement instead

  • Traditional AV tools only provide partial protection to today's sophisticated threats. It's possible (and easier than you think) to fully protect your assets.
  • You can drastically slash the number of threats you're up against by reducing your attack surface, using solutions built on a positive security model.
  • A positive security model reduces risk by only allowing trusted apps and processes to run, blocking everything else by default.

Today's threats are on the ultimate smash-and-grab tour, with the headliners playing the same tune as Take the Money and Run. Not only are today's threats persistently pricey (a single breach costs $4.4 million), they're getting more aggressive, too.

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