6/23/2023 0 Comments Christian fredrikson f secure![]() However as the volume of malware has grown exponentially, it has proven impossible to track the millions of pieces of malware individually, so automation has become more and more important.įredrikson said that F-Secure's labs in Helsinki monitor between 20,000 and 30,000 pieces of malware on a typical day, but had been known to monitor up to 100,000 in a single day. When F-Secure started out life 24 years ago malware was in its infancy and they tracked them using their human security analysts. ![]() With the cyber warfare increasing dramatically in recent times, it is hard to estimate how much further it will grow and even Fredrikson and F-Secure don't know: "Your guess is as good as mine how far this will go." These which were specifically built not to be tracked and this is how they managed to operate undetected for so many years. However analysis last week revealed a collaboration between the creators of Stuxnet and Flame at some point. However the same cannot be said for most governments around the globe and the emergence of sophisticated, state-sponsored cyber-espionage tools such as Flame and previously Stuxnet prove this.Ī recent New York Times article claims that Stuxnet was the result of a collaboration between the US and Israeli governments targetting Iran's nuclear program - though both deny responsibility.Īnalysis of Flame by Kaspersky Lab indicates that it was also a state-sponsored though who was behind the latrest threat is still unknown. ![]() ![]() "We protect against any malware, any virus because we are from Finland, a neutral country."įredrikson, who has only been CEO since January, went on to ridicule his own country's potential cyber threat: "It would be a laughing stock if the Finnish government went to cyberwar." IBTimes UK is visiting the F-Secure headquarters in Helsinki, Finland where Fredrikson spoke about how the company's home country is the perfect location for a security company to operate. F-Secure CEO, Christian Fredrikson, believes he is one of the good guys. ![]()
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