I'd actually be a little surprised if a large financial services firm doesn't already have malware detection tools installed. Whether it's one or more of the many endpoint tools (AV, EDR, XDR, pick your acronym) or something on the network looking for behaviors, it's hard to imagine anything bigger than a tiny startup not having something in place.
Mitigation is a separate issue and depends on what sort of malware you're dealing with. Endpoint defenses should be in place that can blunt or stop a threat (even if none of them are 100% effective) and there are a number of things you can do on the network to prevent malicious actors from exfiltrating data, downloading their payloads, or gaining persistence. Though none of the defenses are 100% effective.
Seriously. If vendor tells you they are always effective against everything, they are lying to you.
To give you better answers though, you'll need to be more specific.
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Some of the most popular tools are IDA Pro, Ghidra, HxD, and OllyDbg. Static analysis can help you identify the malware.
Dynamic analysis is the technique of running the malware in a controlled environment the most popular tools are VMware, Cuckoo, QEMU, and Process Monitor. Dynamic analysis
Code analysis is the technique of reading and understanding the malware source code Some of the most popular tools are Visual Studio Code, Notepad++, and Radare2
Memory analysis is the technique of examining the malware memory dump or snapshot tools are DumpIt, Volatility, and Rekall. Memory
Network analysis is the technique of capturing and analyzing the malware network traffic Some of the most popular tools are Wireshark, Tcpdump, and NetworkMiner
Malware classification is the technique of grouping and labeling malware Some of the most popular tools are MD5, YARA, and CuckooML ....These are examples, I hope they help.
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You have to use a proactive approach to detect the malware inside your network, so you have to use NGAV with an XDR solution, keep UpToDate your client machines and servers, run a full scan in a week, and make sure your NGAV should be UpToDate. Also, blocked non-useful URLs and domains from the gateway firewall and most important. Don't allow the user to install anything without the permission of the IT team until they verified the required Application is safe or not.
I would suggest you think about the zero-day trust framework. There are various solutions around us, and they will protect your organization with different levels or layers of access. Microsoft has a good slide to elaborate on the zero-day trust network.
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I'd actually be a little surprised if a large financial services firm doesn't already have malware detection tools installed. Whether it's one or more of the many endpoint tools (AV, EDR, XDR, pick your acronym) or something on the network looking for behaviors, it's hard to imagine anything bigger than a tiny startup not having something in place.
Mitigation is a separate issue and depends on what sort of malware you're dealing with. Endpoint defenses should be in place that can blunt or stop a threat (even if none of them are 100% effective)
and there are a number of things you can do on the network to prevent malicious actors from exfiltrating data, downloading their payloads, or gaining persistence. Though none of the defenses are 100% effective.
Seriously. If vendor tells you they are always effective against everything, they are lying to you.
To give you better answers though, you'll need to be more specific.
Static analysis is the technique
Some of the most popular tools are IDA Pro, Ghidra, HxD, and OllyDbg. Static analysis can help you identify the malware.
Dynamic analysis is the technique of running the malware
in a controlled environment the most popular tools are VMware, Cuckoo, QEMU,
and Process Monitor. Dynamic analysis
Code analysis is the technique of reading and understanding the malware source code Some of the most popular tools are Visual Studio Code, Notepad++, and Radare2
Memory analysis is the technique of examining the malware memory dump or snapshot tools are DumpIt, Volatility, and Rekall. Memory
Network analysis is the technique of capturing and analyzing the malware network traffic Some of the most popular tools are Wireshark, Tcpdump, and NetworkMiner
Malware classification is the technique of grouping and labeling malware Some of the most popular tools are MD5, YARA, and CuckooML ....These are examples, I hope they help.
You have to use a proactive approach to detect the malware inside your network, so you have to use NGAV with an XDR solution, keep UpToDate your client machines and servers, run a full scan in a week, and make sure your NGAV should be UpToDate.
Also, blocked non-useful URLs and domains from the gateway firewall and most important. Don't allow the user to install anything without the permission of the IT team until they verified the required Application is safe or not.
I would suggest you think about the zero-day trust framework. There are various solutions around us, and they will protect your organization with different levels or layers of access. Microsoft has a good slide to elaborate on the zero-day trust network.