Canisius College ITS is currently deploying a new antivirus product on campus, Cylance Protect. Cylance uses a very different approach to virus detection.
Previously, conventional anti-virus products used a combination of virus signatures, which required constant updates to detect a virus infection, only after the infection had already occurred.
Signature-based virus detection over the past few years hasn’t kept pace with the high rate of new threats, making this method of detection vulnerable.
Cylance Protect instead relies on artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze threats prior to their launch and terminate them prior to the threat doing damage to the computer. Cylance does this very rapidly with the ability to evaluate threats in less than 100 milliseconds.
Currently we have Cylance Protect deployed to the majority of Microsoft Windows PC’s across campus. However, it is currently operating in a “monitor only” mode. This means that it has the ability to detect threats but is not currently quarantining the threats.
ITS has been fine-tuning Cylance Protect to recognize our legitimate software on campus.
Starting this Friday, October 2, at 9:00 a.m., ITS will activate quarantining of active threats on administrative offices Windows PC’s.
Starting on Friday, October 9, at 9:00 a.m. ITS will activate quarantining of active threats on academic offices Windows PC’s.
If you are having any difficulty running any programs on your computer after quarantining goes live, please contact the ITS Help Desk at Ext. 8340.
Submitted by: David Koenig, Support Specialist III, ITS
