Look for advanced protection technology that proactively protects against zero day exploits or recognizes lateral movement within a network and blocks it.

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According to Crosby, traditional security solutions rely on detection and hence fail to block targeted attacks which often use zero day exploits.

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Intrusion detection, capable of spotting zero day exploits, must be deployed to audit and test the recognition and response capabilities of your corporate security defences.

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Just as important, the platform will host exploits only for known vulnerabilities, not so-called zero day exploits--new attacks for which software companies haven't yet issued fixes.

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That ban on zero-day exploits represents a new approach to the idea of a platform for selling white-hat hacking tricks.

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Vupen is just one of a number of companies that have created controversy in the security community by profiting from zero-day exploits rather than working with software firms to fix the hackable vulnerabilities they use.

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History has shown us that, in time, these attacks will use zero-day vulnerabilities, exploits or a combination of techniques.

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