Security News > 2021 > December > Cybersecurity: Increase your protection by using the open-source tool YARA
YARA comes as a binary that can be launched against files, taking YARA rules as arguments.
Outgoing communication can be analyzed using YARA rules to detect outgoing malware communications but also to try to detect data exfiltration.
Using specific YARA rules based on custom rules made to detect legitimate documents from the company might work as a data loss prevention system and detect a possible leak of internal data.
YARA is a mature product and therefore several different EDR solutions allow personal YARA rules to be integrated into it, making it easier to run detections on all the endpoints with a single click.
How to install YARA on macOS. YARA can be installed on macOS using Homebrew.
YARA is easy to install, yet the most difficult part is learning how to write efficient YARA rules, which I'll explain in my next article.