In comparison to what it out there for us currently PathScan has a competitive advantage. With many of the commercial products that are available they either look for exact signatures to flag unauthorized activity or only monitor data that is occurring at the perimeter. PathScan used statistical methods to detect both known and zero-day behavior and also examines data internally to find the attacker once they have gained access inside the network. PathScan “has scaled to very large networks, has scaled up to millions of computers, and has been validated on large operational networks” unlike many academic approaches available (Maughan & Pozmantier, ). All of these advancements would allow the organization to update or include PathScan
