If you are a CEO that is concerned about employees wasting time online using non-work-related websites like Facebook or Twitter, you may be missing the boat. The bigger risk to employee productivity is a very dangerous new virus called CryptoWall which cannot be stopped by your antivirus software. Here’s how it works: your employee goes to a website that has an infected advertisement on it. When the ad loads on the computer screen a pop-up is displayed. When your employee closes or clicks on the popup, their computer becomes infected.
I know what you are thinking: big deal. The computer is infected. We will just call Dynamic Edge, and they will remove the virus, per normal. Right? Wrong. The problem is that this virus works VERY quickly. So quickly that it destroys the data on the computer and any shared data on your network before you even notice the problem! Yep, you heard me right: ALL of your data. Imagine how this would affect your business.
This makes our recovery effort a super-time-consuming-two-step process: remove the virus, then go through and restore all of the damaged data. This process
may take as many as 6 to 8 hours.
What can you do to prevent this?
Three things:
1. Train your team: make sure your team knows NOT to click on unexpected email attachments, and NEVER to click on Ads, or popups when surfing the web.
2. Block these sites: Purchase Security+ for your network. When you purchase Security+ we replace your normal firewall with a super-firewall. It has among other things a special web filter to keep this sort of crud from getting into your network. We can even keep your team members off non-work-related websites
or provide reports on web usage.
3. Talk to us about Instant Restore: We have a new backup product that includes the ability to restore instantly. No more waiting for the backup to restore; we install a loaner server right at your office and when you need your server recovered, we simply turn it on. This works for workstations too!
If you are interested in more information on how to protect your network or minimize your restore time, give us a call.
