Alphabet had launched a project that focused on cybersecurity, including the VirusTotal malware scanning tool that Google bought in 2012. Today, it said it was launching VirusTotal Enterprise for corporate customers that want advanced capabilities.
VirusTotal Enterprise, which is a enterprise cybersecurity tool, combines existing capabilities, expanded functionality, including improved YARA threat hunting, & new features such as Private Graph & high-speed searching through a new interface that unifies in free & paid Sites.
Here’s the announcement by Alphabet:
As a part of Alphabet, VirusTotal benefits from increased scalability of data collection, processing, and search. As part of Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity company, we support the mission to help enterprises better protect their own networks. VirusTotal Enterprise makes this mission real, with massive search improvements and more powerful data visualization.
VirusTotal Enterprise allows users to search for malware samples (using VT Intelligence), hunt for future malware samples (using VT Hunt with YARA), analyze malware relationships (using VT Graph), and automate all these tasks with our API. VT Private Graph adds new capabilities that enable customers to represent their internal infrastructure and users within a graph, all while keeping your most sensitive investigations private. Specifically, VirusTotal Enterprise adds these new capabilities to the VirusTotal malware intelligence service:
Private Graph: Create visualizations of malware relationships, link to internal information, and keep private from other VirusTotal users.
- Private graphs allow you to include information about your own enterprise assets such as machines, departments, users, etc. within a graph.
- Unlike normal VirusTotal graphs, private graphs are not shared with or visible by public VirusTotal users.
- Private graphs enable secure team collaboration, as part of an incident investigation.
- Finally, private graphs can automatically extract commonalities from nodes, to identify indicators of compromise.
Advanced malware search: Search more data, faster, using more powerful terms.
- VirusTotal Enterprise increases search speed by 100x using new malware n-gram content searches
- It also improves search accuracy, using additional parameters such as common icons across files, spam emails sharing a common visual layout, etc. For example, you can extract an icon from a fake application, and ask VirusTotal Enterprise to return all malware samples that use the same icon file.
- Malware analysis is more powerful, showing new details about uploaded files, including embedded domains, IP addresses, interest-ranked strings, etc.
- We’ve improved usability with a single, unified interface across the free and paid VirusTotal sites.