If you've ever watched the movie, Outbreak, the movie where a monkey kills almost everybody you would understand firsthand the colossal damage and cost a virus (any virus brings), be it in real or digital life. We all know the story, where Dustin Hoffman and his beautiful wife Rene Russo rushed in to save the day, but only by first identifying the source or ‘patient zero’. Otherwise, everybody dies.

A lot of truth in that. Else everybody dies. Well say hello to Volodymyr Hrytsan and Yevgen Melnyk, co-founders of ROMAD SECURITY Holding LTD and our present-day Hoffman and Russo!

Recently, the digital kingdom has seen the rise of sophisticated cyber crimes brought about by the proliferation of technological adaptations like the IoT, cloud, deep learning, tokenization and mobility ever making our cyberspace unsafe and forcing many to cringe in their offices of at the sight of a new email because they'd never know if clicking on it is the security risk that plunge the office into chaos.

Unlike the early days of the internet, it is unimaginable the dangers of the current digital world we live in. The illusion of security we think we have, until some threat arrives and our classic antiviruses fail woefully to protect us, and in the blink of an eye, we find ourselves the double victim discovering we had been paying billions to reactive security corporations to feed our illusion of control.

Well we at ROMAD are glad the movie Outbreak was about an infection. It makes our explanation a lot easier. Like a biological disease, the way a malware spreads is usually through a process we call Diffusion, meaning it spreads from place to place: from a place of high concentration (a private audience, Crypters and bad actors alike) to a place of low to zero concentration (the general public, you and I). Satisfactorily, the movie says a lot more about malware and our present physical world of interconnected gadgetry than we think we knew. Like the movie, then-present medicine never worked. Yes, everyone dies. Everyone who was unlucky enough to be near that unfortunate monkey. So it is, today, where classic Antivirus solutions and their reactive models wait for someone or some multitudes to get infected and then take even more time (several months at times) to release updates to protect the fortunate others from that very malware in the future. To us, that is more like all the snout-nosed doctors in the movie wearing Hazmat suits, obviously working hard but really saving on one.

It’s an outright travesty, but Volodymyr says, “we wanted to create something innovative by detecting threats before they emerged, and my bioinformatics background did help to create the product that we now deliver.”

Here, Volodymyr is referring to Project ROMAD’s patented technology, RED (ROMAD ENDPOINT DEFENSE), an innovative product of how they were able to layout the behavioral patterns of these millions of malware strains out there and figure out one thing: Malware Families. 250 of them actually.

To understand what a Malware Family is, refer to this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/romad-blockchain-integration-future-cyber-security-romad-systems

If you have read our earlier educational piece on what a Malware Family is all about, you would know there actually only 250 malware families out there from the millions of strains! And according to Hrystan, the concept behind them show there is nothing new under the sun and so creating a new malware family actually is... quote "Very time consuming and costly to develop…thus the Crypters (rogue actors) decay or out-date the anti-viruses before deploying the malware” unquote.

Now isn't that a pleasant thought? Which is why we sought a proactive solution using state of the art technologies to ‘eradicate, not chase’ the malware as the usually reactive and not at all offensive approach from classic antiviruses adopt. I think it goes without saying that the best defense, is a good offense, don't you think?

The movie also lets us know as more people die, Hoffman was only able to stop the spread of the virus and its several cunning yet equally deadly mutations by finally finding the infected monkey and analyzing it! Hmm...sound anything like what we do with Malware Genome Sequencing to you?

Now, our proactive ROMAD Endpoint Defense, which we've proactively called RED, hunts for the behavioral DNA of all malwarse and this way has significant advantages over the traditional anti-viruses. This capability blocks offensive actions before they do any harm, without impacting benign system processes.

An example of this, out of several, is that ROMAD was installed in three computer systems in a big hotel network. After the hotel was affected by a cyberattack, their entire system including the backup was destroyed barring the three that ROMAD was installed on. Impressed by the result, the hotel immediately partnered with the company and started installing the solution on every system. Another similar report, came from the Odesa International Airport. Officials are quoted as saying, “At the time when the NonPetya virus attack took place on June 28, 2017, the equipment with ROMAD EDR protection was not affected by the data encryptor. This product also successfully prevented NonPetya from re-encrypting a number of computers from our network.”

RED was built from the ground-up as a fire-and-forget solution, organizations can stop worrying about constant signature updates or being the bait as classic av solutions would have it since ROMAD protects them against emerging threats before they are even created!

“RED sees through all the tricks and focuses on what matters — attempted malicious action, stopping it before a system is compromised,” as stated verbatim by CIOREVIEW Magazine, a tech guide company on latest innovations in the interest of enterprises.

Without such innovative and game-changing approach, everybody dies, and one infection at a time. Tomorrow might be your turn. So, won't you rather protect yourself with RED, a truly proactive endpoint defense anti-malware system. RED even does more impressively against Zero-day threats.

We are holding an Initial Exchange Offering this March 15th for our ROMAD tokens as we migrate our innovative solutions to the blockchain. To learn more about ROMAD, our team, patented technology, social recognition and awards, as well as sponsors and facilitators, visit https://romad.io

DOWNLOAD your free copy of RED here: www.romad.io/download-beta.html And yes, our patented product is FREE!

ROMAD’s pioneering approach and technology is presently patented across all 28 countries of the European Union and the USA. Our project is sponsored under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 grant.



