Why we must go beyond traditional Antivirus, EDR, and XDR

Key insights to anticipate threats that go unnoticed today (and how INVISIA makes it possible)

For years, traditional defense layers—antivirus, firewalls, EDR, and XDR—have played a key role in containing threats and maintaining digital trust. Their contribution has been essential in the evolution of detection and response capabilities.

But the landscape has changed:

Attackers no longer rely on files. They move between legitimate processes, exploit firmware, strike from recovery environments, and even manipulate volatile memory without touching the disk.

This new scenario demands a deep transformation.

An architecture that doesn't wait for alerts or depend on external signatures or constant connectivity to protect.
A solution that detects, blocks, and recovers autonomously, proactively, and resiliently.

Chain-based defense: many layers, little real integration

• Antivirus: signature-based. Obsolete against fileless malware.
• EDR: slow to detect, cloud-dependent, high resource consumption.
• XDR: mostly third-party assemblies that don't work offline.

Meanwhile, attackers:

• Execute in RAM without touching disk.
• Infiltrate via disguised BIOS or USBs.
• Abuse legitimate tools like PowerShell or WMI.
• Move laterally without raising alerts.
• Poison sessions, steal tokens, and operate "within" normal behavior.

So how do we shift the paradigm?

• Reactive model: waits for something to "happen" before defending.
• Cloud dependency: without connectivity, many solutions lose critical functionality.
• Superficial visibility: focuses on logs, not actual behavior.
• Fake unification: 80% of XDRs rely on third-party integrations, not native design.
• Layer 0 blindness: BIOS, WinRE, UEFI, USBs... outside the radar of most systems.

INVISIA: an architecture built to anticipate, block and recover before impact

Fully developed by SecureLab, INVISIA is not a patched-together solution. It’s a modular, autonomous platform with its own AI that works even without internet, operating from the lowest layers of the system: the firmware.

Why is INVISIA different?

Use cases that redefine the standard

• ✔️ Executables from %TEMP% without digital signature → Immediate quarantine.
• ✔️ PowerShell with -enc base64 or memory-reflected scripts → Autonomous blocking.
• ✔️ Malicious IP connection via DNS tunneling → Sniffer + disconnection.
• ✔️ Execution attempt from WinRE or BIOS → Stealth agent triggers offline block.
• ✔️ Dangerous clipboard command → Dynamic censorship.

Adaptive AI, not decorative

The artificial intelligence in INVISIA doesn’t rely on large external models. It works locally with:

• Contextual heuristics (path, parent process, arguments).
• Behavioral anomaly detection.
• Semantic log and command analysis.
• Dynamic rules that evolve with each detected event.

Most importantly: it retrains itself without reinstalling the agent, thanks to its distributed architecture.

FirmGuard: Root-level protection with Phoenix Technologies

INVISIA integrates FirmGuard, developed together with Phoenix Technologies, operating directly from the BIOS, shielding the system even before the OS loads.

• Detect firmware hooks and alterations.
• Control physical USB devices by class.
• Restore compromised firmware from a trusted origin.