Cyber security vendor Sourcefire’s latest product uses big data analytics methods to search data to discover patterns in malware attacks and intervene to stop them. The release of FireAMP comes the same week that Cisco Systems released its 4Q11 Global Threat Report that details how pervasive the malware threat is to networks. Cisco reports that in the fourth quarter, enterprise users experienced an average of 339 web malware encounters per month and for all of 2011, the average was 362 per month. Cisco also reports that 20,141 unique web malware hosts were encountered per month in 2011, up from 14,217 in 2010.
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