Do you ever wonder why businesses—credit unions, accountants, healthcare facilities—keep falling victim to malicious ransomware attacks? The reason is they simply aren’t doing enough to keep criminals out. 9 out of 10 businesses fail to have a ‘smart firewall’ to protect your team from infecting your networks with malicious viruses (think cryptowall, for example).
And even if you are training your team, what happens when someone ACCIDENTALLY clicks on a bad link or lands on the wrong webpage? Why not proactively protect your team from malicious attacks rather than solely relying on employee training to keep your business, your data and your customers safe?
To prevent team members from getting tangled in cryptowall and phishing attacks, we recently have launched a heuristic-based firewall that keeps your business safe and prevents major cyberattacks from reaching you. If you’ve been wondering how you can protect your business against cyberattacks that result in downtime (lost productivity), loss of sensitive data (client, employee, financial) and a tarnished reputation (loss of confidence in your brand), check out this video:
To sum up the video above, no matter how you look at it, it’s hard to recover from a cyberattack. Understand that backups (while very necessary to protect your business from data loss) are inherently a reactive tool in that you are restoring data that has already been compromised. Shouldn’t it be time for your business to get in front your security with something that’s proactive?
To demonstrate how easy it is to succumb to an attack nowadays, here’s a TRUE STORY:
It was Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock and all of a sudden one of your team members says he can’t access their documents. A little while later, people across your office are reporting that documents are no longer opening on the network.
Come to find out your receptionist was doing research to find good prices on office supplies and stumbled across a website infected with a virus. But this virus wasn’t just any virus. This virus walked your entire network and locked EVERYTHING down on your network. Now you have to restore from backup—a process that normally takes at least a few hours.
How could this all have been avoided?
Having a smart firewall that (1) looks at where traffic is going and (2) what that traffic is carrying can save you time, headache and a bad reputation of being vulnerable to network hacks and infections.
You see, when your receptionist went to that office supply website, she clicked on a link that had a payload in it. If your firewall was smart, it would have stopped that payload and kept your company from being infected.
And even if it missed the payload, when your receptionist’s computer reached out to get the encryption key—a special key that ransomware like this uses to lock down the data—it would have blocked it because all of a sudden your receptionist’s computer is going to a place it has never been before: maybe Russia, Croatia, or China.
What you need is a smart solution. One like fitSecure. That’s capable of identifying and recognizing dangerous content. Blocking and alerting a team of experts to come in and save the day in case of someone actually getting an infection.
fitSecure:
- Automatically blocks addresses and ports coming from suspicious geographic regions.
- Identifies and locks down network traffic using heuristics and continues to seek out indicators of attacks to identify previously unknown cyberattacks.
- Proactively stops attacks by inspecting code, messages and websites.
fitSecure benefits are obvious:
- Check off your IPS/IDS requirement for HIPAA or PCI compliance because your data is safe.
- Don’t worry about downtime from viruses—ransomware and cryptowall.
- Get to your network from anywhere—safely, with secure Virtual Private Network access for your team.
Our no-hack guarantee is simple: if a hacker figures out a way into your systems, we will recover your data, computers and network for FREE. Why react to infections after they’ve already done their damage and cost your business? Why not get smart business security with fitSecure? Contact Us TODAY to find out how easy it can be to protect your client data, your team and your business from malicious attacks.
