Malware comes in many flavors. I’m focusing now on one of the most pernicious, advanced persistent threats (APTs), because these frequently use the techniques of zero-day attacks to remotely manipulate a system while remaining virtually invisible to standard defenses.
How secure are the data, applications, systems, and networks your business depends on? If you’re like too many of the executives I talk to, you may believe all is well — but only because you haven’t asked the right questions.
One executive told me recently, “We’re cool; we haven’t had to touch our firewalls in three years.”
Another ticked off all the security products his IT guys have installed — but, it turns out, without ever changing the manufacturers’ default passwords.
Categories: CEO to CEO | Disaster Recovery | Encryption | Firewall | Information Security | Intrusion Detection | Managed Services | Security | Virus Detection
As more and more of your employees use mobile devices, these machines may start out behind your firewall — but they don’t stay there. They move around, to other networks with different firewall rules. Or no firewall at all.
When that mobile device returns to its trusted place behind your firewall, it may carry a cyber-infection that can attack your network from the inside.
The great firewall challenge lies in balancing the tradeoffs between degree of protection, usability, and cost. That balancing act starts with understanding what your firewall actually does.
Categories: CEO to CEO | Disaster Recovery | Information Security | Intrusion Detection | Malware | Mobile Device Management | Security | Virus Detection | Firewall
I can’t emphasize this enough: All of the technology products and services an organization devotes to securing its data, applications, systems, and networks have but one aim — to protect the value of the business.
Conversely, every data breach reduces the value of the business — and there are more data breaches every year.
Categories: Business Resumption | Business-critical Data | CEO to CEO | Disaster Recovery | General Business | Information Security | Malware | Security | SPAM | Virus Detection
About a year ago, a routine enterprise security analysis turned up 75 gigabytes of stolen data. Thus began the discovery of the ‘Kneber botnet’, which had hijacked 74,000 computers at more than 2,500 organizations around the world.
Operating undetected for a year, the Kneber botnet’s 74,000 ‘zombies’ stole 68,000 corporate logins to e-mail accounts, online banking accounts, and a variety of public email and social networking sites. It also grabbed nearly 2,000 SSL certificate files used to secure the likes of online banking transactions. More...
Categories: Disaster Recovery | Information Security | Security | Malware | Virus Detection | Intrusion Detection | SPAM
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