Malware Defenses: Give Zero-Trust and 3-2-1-1 a Try
Malware attacks are vicious and devastating to an organization.
On the average, a company with spend around $3.86 million to recover from a data breach. Malware cyber-attacks stop business operations cold, result in lost clients and drive away potential clients.
Many businesses never recover.
Consequently, a strong defense against malware is essential. Studies show that what worked in the past probably won’t do the job in the present. Specifically, traditional antivirus (AV) solutions are ineffective at preventing malware intrusions. Experts in this area say they can be blind to malware in zip format and may fail to catch advanced threats that involve social engineering tactics.
Legacy AV solutions may also struggle to accurately detect automated threats that cleverly place malware in email, including phishing, ransomware, spyware, and viruses.
One of the top recommendations today to protect an organization from malware is to adopt a zero-trust security framework. The zero-trust model is a mindset that focuses on not trusting any devices — or users — even if they’re inside the corporate network, by default.
This approach helps secure access from users, end-user devices, APIs, IoT, microservices, containers, and more. It protects your workforce, workloads, and workplace since you must first verify their trustworthiness before granting access.
Another top recommendation is to implement the 3-2-1-1 backup rule. This means keeping three or more copies in different locations, using two distinct storage mediums and storing one copy off-site. This will reduce the chances of an attacker gaining access to everything. This 3-2-1 approach also ensures that a vulnerability in one of those doesn’t compromise all your copies, and it provides options if an attack takes out an entire data center.
Many organizations are also now going one more step to 3-2-1-1, by keeping at least one copy on immutable (can’t be changed) and indelible (can’t be deleted) storage.
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Additionally, learn about malicious software (malware), effects of malware on user’s device, and common types of malware in today’s network. This course gives you sufficient knowledge to classify the malwares based on the risk that they cause on system security.
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