Could Software Protection Have Stopped the TD Ameritrade Breach

Although the details are scarce, the reported TD Ameritrade breach indicates malware was attached to an application database. If this did occur then the attack could have come from an insider or a previous network breach which allowed software to be injected into an application component. This attack would be almost impossible to detect with most signature based intrusion prevention systems. However, anti-tampering and runtime environment checks contained in software protection solution embedded within the application itself could have prevented this threat,

It’s our predication that security breaches will become more sophisticated and based on some of the same reverse engineering techniques used today in the software piracy scene.

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