--- title: "Malware" id: "39992" type: "page" slug: "malware" published_at: "2023-10-11T07:07:19+00:00" modified_at: "2026-03-05T09:57:56+00:00" url: "https://stellarcyber.ai/uc/malware/" markdown_url: "https://stellarcyber.ai/uc/malware.md" excerpt: "Malware Don’t let a malicious file or application lead to a wide-scale breach. Download Datasheet What Makes Combating Malware Challenging While threat vectors come and go, malware remains a crucial asset attackers use to achieve their objectives. Lack of Visibility..." --- ## Malware Don’t let a malicious file or application lead to a wide-scale breach. [Download Datasheet](https://d6i9zfdwymowh.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/10-23_Data-Sheet_Technology-at-a-Glance_V4-2.pdf) ## What Makes Combating Malware Challenging While threat vectors come and go, malware remains a crucial asset attackers use to achieve their objectives. ### Lack of Visibility While good products are on the market to detect potential malware, they only work if they can see assets they intend to protect. Suppose a new computer or server doesn’t get the malware protection installed. You end up with unintended exposure. This happens more than anyone would like to think. ### Time Delays While attackers are known to remain in environments for weeks, if not months, before deploying their malware payload, once deployed, the threat can spread like wildfire. Without real-time access to data, the security team will always be chasing an active attack, attempting to limit the damage rather than stopping it from executing. ### Unreliable Automation Two aspects of automation make malware so effective. The attackers use automation to deploy malware, starting widespread campaigns with minimal investment. Without reliable automation, many security teams must use manual mitigation and remediation methods. ## How to Defend Against Malware A multi-layer security approach gives your team the best chance to detect and prevent malware from causing business disruptions. ### Endpoint Protection Attackers consistently target endpoints, where users interact with a computer regularly, to carry out their attacks. A solid endpoint protection product, such as EPP and EDR, is a must. ### Next-Gen Firewall Since most malware arrives via email, you must have an email product with built-in file filtering. ### Network Protection 99% of all attacks will traverse your network at some point. Network protection products like NDRs are great ways to detect command and control activity typically associated with malware. ### Vulnerability Management While attackers love to have users do their dirty work for them, if they can find an unpatched asset or an application with a known vulnerability in your environment, they are more than happy to exploit it. To that end, you need effective vulnerability management to keep your systems and applications up to date. ### Security Analytics While the abrasiveness of a malware attack is evident once an attacker deploys the payload, there are opportunities to detect potential signs of an impending malware attack when actively monitoring and correlating user and entity behaviors and flagging suspicious activities. ### Automated Response With the previous protection layers in place, you need a way to respond to a detected threat at scale quickly. An automated response product like SOAR can distinguish between a localized malware issue and a widespread crippling attack. 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[Request a Demo](https://stellarcyber.ai/request-a-demo/) ## Key Features ### Ultra-Flexible Data Sources ### Ultra-Flexible Data Sources Using pre-built integrations, incorporate data from an existing security control, IT, and productivity tool. ### Normalize and Enrich Data ### Normalize and Enrich Data Automatically normalize and enrich data with context, enabling comprehensive, scalable data analysis. ### Automated Threat Hunting ### Automated Threat Hunting Create customized threat hunts that can be run ad-hoc or on a set schedule. ### Advanced Threat Detection ### Advanced Threat Detection Identify complex threats using AI threat models and curated threat detection rules. ### AI-Driven Security Analytics ### AI-Driven Security Analytics Combining seemingly disparate alerts into incidents provides security analysts with contextualized and prioritized threats to investigate. ### Repeatable Incident Response ### Repeatable Incident Response Take decisive response actions manually or enable Stellar Cyber to automate response fully. [Understand the Tech](https://stellarcyber.ai/platform/) [Here from Our Customers](https://stellarcyber.ai/company/customer-testimonials/) ## Automate Malware Protection with Stellar Cyber ## Stop Chasing Alerts Investigate incidents, not alerts See significant efficiency gains. ## Improve Security Outcomes Find hidden threats early and stop constant firefighting. ## Save Time and Money Optimize security stack Improve team productivity. ## It’s Your Turn to ## See. Know. Act. Stellar Cyber unifies your stack, automates response, and connects you with trusted partners—giving you clarity, control, and measurable results. [Request a Demo](https://stellarcyber.ai/request-a-demo/) [Explore the Platform](https://stellarcyber.ai/platform/)