Security solutions to safeguard against subtle network threats
Wireless Dimensions offers security solutions suitable for today’s digital network environment. One of the areas where companies are extremely vulnerable is that of information confidentiality. Business owners should not compromise on their security solutions as information theft, alteration, and loss can cost a company thousands to millions of rands.
Network intrusions with the aim to destroy or change data are major threats and two of the most dangerous forms are that of data destruction and diddling.
Destroying valuable data
In this case the perpetrator uses viruses, worms, and trojans to simply corrupt and delete files. The damage caused can amount to the same as total hardware failure or theft.
Diddling
This is a more subtle, yet a more dangerous threat that many of the current security solutions don’t detect. What the perpetrator does is to change a few numbers or formulas here and there in spreadsheets, payroll data, and project plans. The results are devastating especially since the changes can be so subtle that they go unnoticed until it is too late. Once detected you will have to figure out how many files have been diddled with and how far back.
Both threats come from any connection to the Internet whether through an email, logging into a social media site, making use of specific Web 2.0 applications or downloading freeware from the Internet. No longer is the threat of intrusion limited to sites such as gaming or porn sites. Many of these sites have the appearance of being quite legitimate and safe places.
What to do?
First set a policy for browsing, email usage, and bandwidth limitation. The second step is to invest in the WD Guard system as one of the best security solutions available to protect against these threats. Apart from the firewall and routing rules, advanced firewall, and network protection features, it is also the best answer to email spam threats.
