{"id":17947,"date":"2020-03-17T20:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/news-11680\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T04:36:52","slug":"news-11680","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/news-11680\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercept X gets enhanced defenses against fileless attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Alex Gardner| Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:30:45 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\">\n<p>We are pleased to announce that AMSI (Antimalware Scan Interface) is now generally available for Intercept X customers.<\/p>\n<h3>What does AMSI do?<\/h3>\n<p>AMSI is a Microsoft interface in Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 and later versions that allows for the scanning of script files even when obfuscated, as well as .NET 4.8 assemblies.<\/p>\n<h3>How does it keep me safe?<\/h3>\n<p>Obfuscated scripts such as PowerShell are commonly used by attackers to compromise systems and networks. AMSI Protection makes Intercept X even more effective at detecting and blocking these types of attacks.<\/p>\n<h3>Do I get access to AMSI Protection?<\/h3>\n<p>AMSI will be enabled for all customers running Intercept X Advanced, Intercept X Advanced with EDR and Central Endpoint Protection over the next few weeks. There is no additional cost.<\/p>\n<h3>What about Intercept X for Server?<\/h3>\n<p>AMSI Protection for Intercept X for Server is in Early Access right now. Learn more and <a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/products\/intercept\/early-access-program\/b\/blog\/posts\/enhanced-protection-eap-going-to-server?cmp=26104\">join the EAP.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Where can I learn more about Intercept X?<\/h3>\n<p>Head over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/products\/endpoint-antivirus.aspx?cmp=26104\">Intercept X page<\/a> to get details on all of the great features, and check out an <a href=\"https:\/\/secure2.sophos.com\/en-us\/products\/endpoint-antivirus\/demo.aspx?cmp=26104\">online demo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/395191030\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen style=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/sophos\/dgdY\/~3\/rBV0CtLUE6M\/\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/sophos\/dgdY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Alex Gardner| Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:30:45 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New protection against fileless attacks has been added to Intercept X. Find out what is does and how it can keep you safe.&lt;img src=&#8221;http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sophos\/dgdY\/~4\/rBV0CtLUE6M&#8221; height=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1&#8243; alt=&#8221;&#8221;\/&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10378,10377],"tags":[24476,24477,24478,10405,19712,22773,20268,10384],"class_list":["post-17947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-sophos","tag-amsi-protection","tag-antimalware-scan-interface","tag-central-endpoint-protection","tag-intercept-x","tag-intercept-x-advanced","tag-intercept-x-for-server","tag-intercept-x-with-edr","tag-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}