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inch floppy disks to the attendees of a WHO conference? Back then, protecting endpoints involved anti-malware tools that sniff out suspicious files based on static signatures. Under this assumption, firewalls and secure web gateways took precedence, while endpoint security faded in the background. Security is a moving target.
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