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Insights on the Content Disarm and Reconstruction Global

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Dublin, July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Global Content Disarm and Reconstruction Market Size, Share & Industry Trends Analysis Report By Component (Solution and Services), By Deployment Mode, By Organization Size, By Vertical, By Regional Outlook and Forecast, 2021-2027” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

The Global Content Disarm and Reconstruction Market size is expected to reach $533.8 million by 2027, rising at a market growth of 15.6% CAGR during the forecast period.

CDR (Content Disarm and Reconstruction) is a computer security solution that removes potentially dangerous code from files. CDR technology, unlike malware analysis, does not determine or detect malicious capability, but instead excludes any file components which are not supported by the system’s rules and policies. CDR is used to prevent cybersecurity threats from breaching the perimeter of a business network. Website traffic and email are two channels that CDR may be used to defend.

A phishing email is the source of the vast majority of malware infections. A considerable number of them employ a malicious document as the distribution mechanism. Over than 70% of phishing emails attachments or links and over 30% of fraudulent online downloads in 2020 were supplied via documents like PDF, Excel, Microsoft Office Word, and PowerPoint. Nevertheless, just because a document has been weaponized does not mean it is attempting to destroy.

Microsoft Office files are organised as ZIP files that contain folders holding a variety of different files. This indicates that the malicious script included within an Office file is merely one of numerous files contained within it. PDFs are similar in that they are likewise constructed from many elements. A malicious PDF file is made up of a number of components that work together to form the file which the receiver sees. Just one or a few such objects, however, contain the dangerous script code that is concealed within the page.

COVID-19 Impact Analysis

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a favourable influence on the market for content disarmament and reconstruction. CDR has acquired market traction in the midst of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic in order…

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DOJ’s Sandworm operation raises questions about how far feds can go to disarm botnets

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Written by Suzanne Smalley
Apr 8, 2022 | CYBERSCOOP

The notion that citizens are protected from unreasonable search and seizure is a bedrock legal principle: A court must issue a search warrant before police can enter a private home and ransack it looking for evidence. 

In what former prosecutors and legal experts call a landmark operation, the Department of Justice has now tested that principle to disrupt a Russian botnet that was spreading malware on a far-flung network of computers. Using so-called remote access techniques, law enforcement effectively broke into infected devices from afar to destroy what the U.S. government calls the “Cyclops Blink” botnet — and did so without the owners’ permission.

While the search warrant publicized by DOJ makes clear that this access did not allow the FBI to “search, view, or retrieve a victim device owner’s content or data,” legal experts say the case does raise questions about how far the government’s power should extend under a federal criminal procedure provision known as Rule 41.

The Kremlin-backed hackers responsible for the botnet — a group known to cybersecurity researchers as Sandworm — exploited a vulnerability in WatchGuard Technologies firewall devices to install malware on a network of compromised devices. By leveraging physical access to a subset of infected devices, the FBI said it was able to reverse engineer its way into accessing all of the botnet’s command and control devices. 

The government’s use of a search warrant to gain such remote access to individual computers without notice to the owners relied on a 2016 amendment to Rule 41, a federal rule of criminal procedure. The culmination of a three-year deliberation process which included written comments and public testimony before the federal judiciary’s Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure — a committee which includes judges, law professors, and attorneys in private practice — the 2016 amendment was ultimately adopted by the Supreme Court and approved by Congress.

While the amended rule has been used previously, legal experts say this case appears to…

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Content Disarm and Reconstruction Market Growing at a CAGR 15.7% | Key Player Check Point Software Technologies, Fortinet, Broadcom, OPSWAT, Peraton

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Content Disarm and Reconstruction Market Growing at a CAGR 15.7% | Key Player Check Point Software Technologies, Fortinet, Broadcom, OPSWAT, Peraton

“Check Point Software Technologies (Israel), Fortinet (US), Broadcom (US), OPSWAT (US), Peraton (US), Deep Secure (UK), Votiro (US), Resec Technologies (Israel), odix (Israel), Glasswall Solutions (England), Sasa Software (Israel) JiranSecurity (South Korea), YazamTech (Israel), Solebit (Mimecast), CybACE Solutions (India), SoftCamp (South Korea), and Gatefy (US).”

Content Disarm and Reconstruction Market with COVID-19 Impact Analysis by Component (Solutions and Services), Application Area (Email, Web, FTP, and Removable Devices), Deployment Mode, Organization Size, Vertical, and Region – Global Forecast to 2026.

The global CDR market size is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.7% during the forecast period, to reach USD 0.5 billion by 2026 from USD 0.2 billion in 2021. Key factors that are expected to drive the growth of the market are the increasing cost of data breaches, growing stricter regulation and compliance for content security, and increasing number of zero day and file-based attacks.

Services segment to grow at a higher CAGR during the forecast period 

Based on the component, the market is segmented into two categories: solutions and services. Edge-based segment is expected to grow at a higher CAGR during the forecast period. The services segment is expected to grow at a higher CAGR during the forecast period. Services, including consulting, integration and implementation, training and education, and support and maintenance, are required at various stages, starting from the pre-sales requirement assessment to post-sales product deployment and execution, thus enabling the client to get maximum RoI. Services constitute an integral part in deploying the solution on-board, imparting training, and handling and maintaining the software solution. Companies offering these services encompass consultants, solution experts, and dedicated project management teams that specialize in the design and delivery of critical decision support software, tools, and services.

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Cloud deployment mode to grow at a higher CAGR  during the forecast period.

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Alexa, disarm the victim’s home security system

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Smart home

Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading, explores how hacking attempts on ‘smart’ home assistants via laser pointers have raised further security concerns about the devices.

Researchers who last year hacked popular voice assistants with laser pointers take their work to the next level.

It’s still a mystery to researchers at the University of Michigan and The University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo) – just what physically enabled them to inject commands into the embedded microphones of Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and other digital voice assistant devices via laser pointers.

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The team in 2019 used light to remotely control Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Facebook Portal, and Apple Siri by exploiting a vulnerability in their so-called MEMS microphones. They used the light beams to inject invisible and inaudible commands to the digital voice assistants as well as voice-controlled smartphones and tablets – through glass windows as far away as 110 metres.

They’re now taking their research to a new phase.

“There’s still some mystery around the physical causality on how it’s working. We’re investigating that more in-depth,” says Benjamin Cyr, a Ph.D. student at Michigan who, along with researcher Sara Rampazzi, will be presenting the latest iteration of the research at Black Hat Europe on 10 December. Why do the mikes respond to light as if it’s sound? he says. “We want to try to nail down what’s happening on a physical level, so that future hardware designs” protect them from light-injection attacks.

They are now studying the security of sensing systems overall as well, including those found in medical devices, autonomous vehicles, industrial systems – and even space systems.

Cyr, Rampazzi, an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, and Daniel Genkin, an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, plan to show at Black Hat Europe how a security camera could be manipulated via a hijacked voice assistant with which it interfaces. They’ll be demonstrating their light-injection hack against the Amazon Echo 3, a newer model of the smart speaker system that was not available last year when they…

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