(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web anti-malware provider Dasient (www.dasient.com) has announced that the monitoring and diagnostic components of its Web Anti-Malware (or WAM) service have passed beta testing, and businesses can now use WAM’s richer reporting tools and enhanced scanning technology for malware monitoring and diagnostic services for websites.
The Dasient WAM services are now generally available, according to its Tuesday announcement, after helping tens of thousands of site owners address their web-based malware issues since its beta launch in June. The Dasient WAM services are built on a set of behavioral analysis technologies that continually crawl customer sites and the web, identifying new web-based malware infections to customers as a web service that can be installed by customers or web hosting providers.
“Prior to using Dasient, we had repeated issues with malware infections on our website,” said Heiko Mitzkus, president of Enlighten Living (www.enlightenliving.com), a retailer specializing in home lighting and ceiling fans. “And by the time we realized we were infected, search engines and browsers had already blacklisted us, causing an 80 percent drop in traffic and sales. Dasient WAM is a great preventative tool to have, giving us advance warning that our site is hosting malicious content before we’re flagged by a blacklist.”
A number of new features have been introduced for Dasient’s general launch, including weekly reports on scanned URLs and the latest malware threats. It also includes new account management features that let Dasient WAM customers protect multiple domains to manage all those domains using a single login.
Over the past six months, Dasient has continued to build out the scalability, reliability, and speed of the WAM malware detection platform, according to Neil Daswani, one of Dasient’s three co-founders. “We’re excited to now be able to bring Dasient WAM to even more businesses on the web, to help them protect their sites from the serious threat of web-based malware,” he said in a statement.
Another new update to the Dasient WAM scanning technology is the ability to scan customer sites for links to dangerous downloads that might be placed in user-generated content or in syndicated ads on those sites.
Services like Dasient WAM are becoming increasingly important to companies of all types and sizes, as attackers are focusing more than ever on compromising legitimate websites and hijacking them to distribute malware. In the second half of this year alone, Dasient has identified more than 98,000 unique web-based malware infections, which in turn have impacted hundreds of thousands of sites and millions of pages.
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