According to Corron, the volume of malware variants being seen by PandaLabs, the firm's security research arm is now reaching 50 000 specific malware items - and their variants - a day.
"This time last year we were seeing around 30 000 malware items a day, but the figure is steadily rising", he said, adding that, because of this, a conventional signature-based IT security approach - where updates are installed on a regular basis - is no longer viable.
It is, he explained, just not feasible to install updates on an hourly basis, as is required to truly keep a company's information security defences as up to date as possible.
"The problem then becomes - how can we transfer IT security knowledge to our customers? The logical step is to store the data in the cloud, and then allow client-based software to access this data on an on-demand basis", he said.
"You also need to start offering highly-automated cloud-based services to cope with what is likely to be a large number of IP transactions on a constant basis", he added.
And this, Corron told Infosecurity, is what Panda Security has done with its cloud based IT resource for the new application.
Panda, he went on to say, has thrown a lot of resources at creating its cloud based database.
You need, he said, a lot of memory, to store the data so that it can be accessed in as rapid a manner as possible, and this translate to less memory being required at the client end of the data transaction.
To ensure that data polling responses are as rapid as possible, Panda has installed hundreds of servers around the world that the desktop Cloud Antivirus software can poll the cloud based database as efficiently as possible.
Interestingly, Panda said it decided to go with a desktop application that polled the cloud for its data, rather than a mini-appliance option, as the data can up updated much more quickly.
Typically, the cloud database - which has 48 million files in a 25 terabytes file structure - is updated with information on new and updated malware, every six minutes or so.
According to Petta Lautin, Panda's MD, the security landscape is constantly changing at the moment.
And, whilst he expects to see changes in the way that security vendors offer their services to end users - as has happened with the Cloud Antivirus software/service launched yesterday - he said it is unlikely that security appliances will ever be seen in the consumer or SoHo (small office/home office) segment of the market.
"We are going to see more and more security systems operating in the cloud, as vendors seek to cope with increasing volumes of malware", he said.
"It's a growing problem, but by taking a cloud approach to the problem, you can create a solution that can cope with future increases in the volume and types of malware that pose a threat", he added.