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Virii Generators: Understanding the Threat

Virii Generators: Understanding the Threat (PDF, 1.90MB)Published: 12 May, 2002
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James Tarala
James Tarala

The most common generators are the virii script generators, polymorphic, and encryption generation engines. Each of these generators comes in multiple forms with multiple types of interfaces, the most common being GUI interfaces, command line interfaces, and assembly level interfaces. Thankfully, the government as has sought to deter the practice of virii creation through clear consequences spelled out for those who engage in such activities. Each of these precepts needs to be thought through more, however, to really understand the threat against the enterprise, caused by such virii generators.

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James Tarala, managing partner at Cyverity, co-created the CIS Controls and Cybersecurity Standards Scorecard, transforming cybersecurity governance and empowering global organizations to operationalize risk into actionable defense strategies.

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