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Speaker 1: New antivirus software that's taking a different approach.

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Speaker 2: What's going on, imrich Demiro. This is rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: For years, antivirus software has worked in pretty much the

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Speaker 1: same way. Companies find viruses and malware that identify their

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Speaker 1: key characteristics, then they add them to their list of definitions.

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Speaker 2: Antivirus software on your home.

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Speaker 1: Computer gets that list of updated definitions, then it checks

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Speaker 1: the files on your computer.

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Speaker 2: Against those lists.

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Speaker 1: The problem is, if an app hasn't seen a particular

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Speaker 1: virus or malware, it could be pretty ineffective against it.

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Speaker 1: Now a new company named Silance I've recently met with.

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Speaker 1: They're taking a totally different approach. They are literally teaching

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Speaker 1: their anti virus software to be smart. Thanks to artificial

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Speaker 1: intelligence and machine learning, it can spot a bad file

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Speaker 1: even if it's never.

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Speaker 2: Seen it before. Yes, it is really cool.

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Speaker 1: I went over to their headquarters in Irvine, California and

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Speaker 1: talked to Christopher Bray. He is the head of their

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Speaker 1: new consumer division.

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Speaker 3: The threats have increased exponentially. Back in the early days,

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Speaker 3: I think we all remember the Melissa viruses. In the

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Speaker 3: early two thousands, we had a handful of new unknown

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Speaker 3: malicious software released monthly. These days, We've got three hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty thousand pieces of malicious software being released daily,

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Speaker 3: new malicious software, and it doesn't discriminate. It'll attack companies,

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Speaker 3: it'll attack individuals. It's largely driven by financial motivations. It's

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Speaker 3: crime driven. Back in the old days, people who used

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Speaker 3: to write malicious software, we're kids who are looking for

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Speaker 3: digital bragging rights. It was the equivalent of breaking a window.

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Speaker 3: Today it's evolved to very, very sophisticated organizations that hire

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Speaker 3: the best and brightest and write software that surreptitiously compromises

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Speaker 3: your identity, steals your credentials, ransoms your system any way

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Speaker 3: that they can get money out of you.

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Speaker 1: Silence literally teaches their software, so they feed their all

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Speaker 1: kinds of good and bad files so they can understand

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Speaker 1: the differences between them.

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Speaker 3: We take what we call a proactive approach, which means

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Speaker 3: we don't need to rely on updates or getting actual

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Speaker 3: copies of the malicious software to write a fix for it. Rather,

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Speaker 3: we use the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning

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Speaker 3: in order to identify good and bad software before it

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Speaker 3: even has an opportunity to run.

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Speaker 1: They gave me a demo of just how powerful their

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Speaker 1: software can be. So we did the same scenario twice.

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Speaker 1: First we clicked on an infected attachment on an unprotected

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Speaker 1: computer and we saw ransomware take over the entire screen.

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Speaker 1: Then we clicked on the same exact attachment on a

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Speaker 1: computer that had the Silent software on it, and Silence

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Speaker 1: literally stopped the ransomware before it had any opportunity to act.

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Speaker 3: You know, a common attract vector is phishing emails. So

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Speaker 3: you'll get an email from someone that you trust, maybe

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Speaker 3: it's your bank, maybe it's a friend, and it's got

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Speaker 3: an innocuous document that's attached to.

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Speaker 4: It asks you to double click.

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Speaker 3: You do that, and all of a sudden, you've just

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Speaker 3: unleashed some sort of malicious.

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Speaker 4: Software like ransomware.

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Speaker 3: So if you're running a Silence entivirus, the minute you

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Speaker 3: double click on that malicious attachment, it does a split

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Speaker 3: second assessment is this good or is it bad? And

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Speaker 3: if it's bad, it'll throw it into quarantine right away,

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Speaker 3: preventing it from running it all.

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Speaker 1: Now you might be thinking, can't any old antivirus software

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Speaker 1: do this? Possibly, yes, But the difference here is that

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Speaker 1: Silence can understand whether a file is good or bad.

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Speaker 2: That means even if.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's ever seen it before, or if it's totally undiscovered,

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Speaker 1: Silence can still stop it.

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Speaker 3: You know, this algorithm that we feed billions and billions

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Speaker 3: of samples of good software and bad software, and through

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Speaker 3: machine learning and AI, we train it and it gets

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Speaker 3: more and more refined with time, and then the output

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Speaker 3: of that algorithm is the software that we actually put

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Speaker 3: on people's desktops.

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Speaker 4: And what's cool about it is.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't need to connect to any server or cloud

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Speaker 3: in order to protect you. It it encapsulates all the

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Speaker 3: learning that in that application.

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Speaker 1: Now, I've been running Silence on my Mac computer to

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Speaker 1: try it out, and I got to say, I am impressed.

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Speaker 2: It's small, the app is lightweight.

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Speaker 1: It kind of stays tucked away in the background until

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Speaker 1: it needs to spring into action, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: so far it hasn't had to on my computer. But

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Speaker 1: this is on a lot of other anti virus programs,

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Speaker 1: even the ones that I've installed on my Mac, They're

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Speaker 1: constantly nagging you to do a system scan, update their files,

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Speaker 1: or they just in general hog your system resources.

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Speaker 4: We've been around for approximately six years.

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Speaker 3: We started in the business space and have been very

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Speaker 3: successful in that space and quite disruptive, and our plan

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Speaker 3: is to replicate that in the consumer space and offer

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Speaker 3: consumers a fresh alternative to the commonly perceived system slowing.

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Speaker 4: Pop up riddled user experience.

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Speaker 3: A lot of users have soured on what they've seen

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Speaker 3: in the industry. A lot of vendors will do They'll

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Speaker 3: offer a firesale price for the first year, and then

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Speaker 3: they get surprise on an auto renewal for a much

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Speaker 3: higher price.

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Speaker 4: We take a completely different approach.

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Speaker 3: We're very transparent in our pricing and we say, look,

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Speaker 3: if you sign up for two years, then you'll get

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Speaker 3: a benefit, and if you do the math, our two

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Speaker 3: year price actually works out to be better than a

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Speaker 3: lot of our competitors.

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Speaker 1: Silance Smart antivirus software as it's called, starts at thirty

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Speaker 1: dollars a year. My pick is the five or ten

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Speaker 1: pack of licenses. This can protect all the computers in

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Speaker 1: your household. Two years of protection runs eighty or one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars, which is a pretty good value when you

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Speaker 1: think about the flip side of having to deal with

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Speaker 1: some sort of ransomware mess And I really have no

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Speaker 1: doubt that AI and machine learning will be the model

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Speaker 1: for computer protection going forward. Silance is just one of

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Speaker 1: those companies at the forefront of it right now. If

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Speaker 1: you want to learn more, you can go to my

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Speaker 1: website For a link, it's Rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening. I'm Rich Demiro. I'll talk

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Speaker 2: to you real service