Testing Symantec’s Adaptive Protection

Tempus, MRG’s real-time virtualised test environment reveals Symantec’s Adaptive Protection blocks potential Living Off the Land attacks 4 seconds faster.

MRG Effitas was approached to test Symantec’s Adaptive Technology, a powerful dynamic feature within Symantec Endpoint Protection that focuses on protecting against Living Off The Land (LOTL) attacks.

LOTL attacks are on the increase. These are where threat actors launch sophisticated cyber attacks through the operating system features of legitimate 3rd party commercial tools, such as AnyDesk, Atera or ConnectWise.

With the ability to test multiple images simultaneously and receive real-time alerts and highly detailed feedback Tempus, our virtualised test environment, was the ideal way to test and analyse Symantec’s dynamic technology.

Several Living Off The Land samples, were identified with test results revealing that the Adaptive Protection identified and blocked the attacks 4 seconds earlier than other elements of the EPP.

For more details on the methodology and test results, check out Broadcom and MRG’s white paper, Putting Adaptive Protection to the Test.

Zsombor Kovacs, MRG’s CTO, and Liam O’Murchu, Director of Broadcom’s Security Technology & Response group at Symantec, are presenting the white paper at Virus Bulletin’s VB 2024 conference in Dublin on Thursday 3rd October.