Stop Malware For Good!

A NEW GAME FOR SECURING ORGANIZATIONS.

Cybersecurity is a moving target and your organization doesn’t have to be one. Bad actors are continually churning out new exploits and variations of malware, spyware and ransomware. But how do you protect against emerging threats when your organization’s work environment keeps evolving??

Your new, vastly expanded remote workforce not only puts much greater demand on network resources, it also means exponentially more endpoints and attack vectors.

To limit risk as well as the impact on bandwidth, many organizations?restrict certain online resources, which can reduce employee productivity. Meanwhile, your IT staff is usually overworked, dealing with the remote workforce’s technical issues and chasing after a deluge of security alerts, both real concerns and false alarms.

The fact is, your security may be compliant with PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and other requirements, but that’s just a starting point. That’s because the vast majority of cyber solutions are reactive; they’re designed to detect or mitigate threats that hit the network. By then, it could be too late.

Simply put, compliance isn’t security, and cyber solutions that merely help you meet federal standards could leave your organization exposed to threats from web and cloud sources.

Restricting Web, Email and Access to Cloud Apps Impacts your Organization.

With a huge percentage of organizations conducted online, restrictions on access to “unverified” websites limits your agency’s operational effectiveness. Other resources, such as news or video streaming sites, may be restricted because of the impact on bandwidth.?

But these limits may also keep people from being productive. It seems logical to conclude that more visits to more websites equals more opportunity for malware to be downloaded, but that’s a “detect and mitigate” point of view. Think about it this way: if you’re blocking some sites, that means you feel certain that other sites are known to be safe.

A site that is “clean” today could be infected tomorrow, and your security vendors may not immediately detect the change in status.

Updated signatures need to be developed, delivered and installed and your own whitelists need to be refreshed. How much can go wrong in the interim? And if the issue is a matter of bandwidth and security resources, does that mean your growing security challenge is really an infrastructure problem?

Old solutions simply can’t cut it. The cyber industry’s answer has consistently been to require additional technology investments—an unending cycle of updates and upgrades. On-premise solutions require regular hardware refreshes, which are costly and time consuming.

?Further, onsite secure web gateways aren’t designed to support a large, remote workforce, and cloud-based options are limited.

Naturally, the industry says, scaling up most cyber solutions requires more: more servers, more capacity, more management and maintenance. Scalability issues can plague even some cloud-based solutions.

Stop Trying to Detect Attacks. Instead, Isolate the Threats!

Detection is reactive. Essentially, you’re waiting for an attack, like a goalkeeper guarding the net, hoping you can stop something from slipping through. Isolation, on the other hand, is true zero-trust security, assuming that all online resources could be compromised.?

Rather than try to deflect an attack, cloud-based isolation creates a virtual air gap between the website or document and your users’ devices, whether they are on- premises or remote, so there’s no path for malicious downloads to follow.

A cloud-based platform using isolation and robust admin controls acts as a secure intermediary between users and web resources. Sites open in a virtual browser with all malware stripped out.?

To users, the process is transparent; they can navigate the site, click through the pages, watch videos and read documents as usual. But that content stays in the cloud, so hidden code can’t download to a user’s device.

Contact us at [email protected] if your organization is interested in seeing a demo of a solution that ELIMINATES malware, ransomware and phishing completely! Don't take my word for it, let's SHOW you!