Make it hard to penetrate all the layers

In all likelihood you will know someone who has been a victim of a malicious piece of malware or had valuable data stolen through a well-orchestrated hack. Many organisations that suffer these and other attacks fail to take the proper precautions to prevent themselves from becoming victims. Here are some of the precautions you can take.

Patching - Most attacks, whether they be malware or hacking attempts exploit weakness or vulnerabilities in Operating Systems and 3rd party applications. Normally, when an exploit is discovered, a publisher will release a fix to block it as soon as possible. If your system is maintained by our Managed Services, these patches will be applied automatically.

Mail Filtering - No small number of threats find their way into a network as an email attachment or link. Having a robust system to scan, scrub and quarantine these threats is essential. If you are not using Office 365 for your mail, we recommend Roaring Penguin for anti-spam protection.

Web Filtering - Blocking malicious websites from being accessed can go a long way to reducing the number of threats introduced to a network.

Backups - A good backup and disaster recovery strategy should be in place to make sure that essential and business critical data is safe should the worst happen. Ideally, it should be located offsite. If you don’t already have an offsite backup solution, please call our sales team who will help you find a solution that meets your requirements.

Antivirus – We recommend our managed AV Defender to provide a strong defense against viruses.