The Scaling Crisis: Why Pattern Matching Fails Against Modern Malware

Signature-based detection, the foundation of endpoint security for two decades, faces a mathematical breaking point as attackers leverage AI and polymorphism to generate infinite malware variants. The fundamental equation of cybersecurity—that known signatures can cover the threat space—no longer holds, leaving organizations in a perpetual zero-day scenario. This shift demands a paradigm change in how the industry approaches threat detection.