The threat landscape is dynamic and reactive — a new technique empowers a previously unknown threat group, vendors swarm to mitigate that threat and create new technologies in the process, operators on both sides seek out new techniques or tools, and so it goes. Elastic Security provides mechanisms to detect and mitigate malware on all major desktop operating systems (OS). For these purposes, malware is any software developed to facilitate adversary actions, disrupt legitimate activities, or otherwise cause harm to a computer or network.