/24-7PressRelease/ - October 30, 2007 - It's a story that's been told time and time again, but for good reason, antivirus and security issues are still being preached to the IT masses. Believe it or not, you still hear grumblings of small to midsized enterprises that get hit hard because their end points have no active or installed antivirus or security programs. There are still end points out there with active viruses that haven't been dealt with yet. Small and medium businesses are subject to the same network-level threats and content-level threats as larger enterprises.
Even though they are equally threatened, they usually have much more limited IT staff to deal with security incidents. As a result, a security incident involving an endpoint system usually impacts this segment of businesses greater than larger organizations. The effects of a security incident involving endpoint systems vary greatly and can range from simple loss of productivity due to the inability to use the machine to much greater consequences, such as loss of business-critical data or loss of customer personal information.
Depending on the function of the device, it can be used to relay spam, host illegal content, and participate in denial-of-service attacks against the owner or other businesses. When a threat is not detected by AV [antivirus], a company that practices defense in-depth is in a far better position to discover problems, contain them, and mitigate damage. The impact to Small and Medium size businesses is almost identical to the impact to large corporations; with the exception of the PR budget they have available to spend on damage control.
Apparently, the threat isn't going away anytime soon. Business threats include malicious software, unauthorized access (both physical and digital), and inside espionage. COOLCAT INC contends that malicious software is used for purposes including the extraction of proprietary information for competitive advantage, the use of company computers to host illegal content (such as child porn or stolen credit card information), attacks against other companies and Web sites, identity theft from employees, and to gain access to corporate networks.
So who needs to be concerned? According to COOLCAT INC, email administrators, file server administrators, network operators, and virtually any administrator who is responsible for a critical business system. Most threats arrive today through the Web or email, but from that point and beyond, the threat can impact the entire organization's IT infrastructure.
All businesses need to practice defense in-depth. Policies surrounding the use of company resources are the starting point. Security hardware and software provides additional levels of defense. Intrusion prevention and detection like GFI LANguard are also good to have on the front line. Auditing is another necessity, as well. While antivirus software is a critical component, it cannot do the job alone. LANguard is a full auditing tool reporting on every piece of software installed.
All organization that relies on IT systems for business operations should have multithreat security systems in place at the network perimeter, within the core data center, and also at the end point to best defend against threats. In addition to this, Simmons says the organization should have a security incidence response plan in place to react to anything that manages to find its way through the current security infrastructure.
COOLCAT INC offers multithreat security solutions that protect networks at every stage. COOLCAT INC offers Multi-Threat Security Systems that act at the network level to effectively defend the infrastructure from both network-level and content-level threats. Gfi's End Point Security resides on end-user devices, including desktops and mobile devices such as smartphones, and helps protect single systems from attack.
NOD32 detects and blocks viruses, worms, bots, keyloggers, spyware, adware, and other threats. NOD32 augments traditional signatures with advanced heuristics to provide the best proactive protection against unknown threats for which signatures do not exist. He says the product is enterprise-ready (as evidenced by the Ontario Ministry of Education's selection of NOD32 for 300,000 PCs). With versions for Windows, Linux, BSD, Novell, Lotus, and Exchange, NOD32 supports a variety of diverse environments.
Hackers can and will break into networks for malicious reasons. In some cases, he says information is used to extort a victimized company. Sometimes insiders are often able to do the most damage, abusing legitimate access to proprietary information outside of the confines of the corporate network. Education will help prevent people from inadvertently putting their own companies at risk. Ultimately some one has to decide what solution to go with. COOLCAT recommends best of breed products from Eset and Gfi. To find out more; contact COOLCAT INC at 904.687.1245 or visit them on the web at http://coolcatinc.com.
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