The Small Business Owner
30 employees. One bad click. Everything encrypted.
Every machine has antivirus. We are covered.
One employee clicks a link that installs a custom payload with no existing signature. It sits dormant for two weeks, mapping your network and exfiltrating client records. When it deploys ransomware, every workstation and your file server encrypt in eleven minutes. Your antivirus never flagged it because the payload was written specifically for your environment. Average recovery cost is $2.3M. Many small businesses never reopen.
The payload is classified by its structure the moment it arrives - not only by matching a known signature, but by detecting that its structure is inconsistent with legitimate data. Suspicious content is isolated and reported before a user acts on it.