Major Online Threats to Your Business

It’s not a computer security expert protect your company’s network it’s the awareness regarding the online threats in your organization will protect your organization’s network. Awareness of key threats will enable you to employ practices and behaviors that limit your company’s risk. Lets have a closer look into major online threats for your business.

Spam: E-mail spam, also known as "bulk e-mail" or "junk e-mail," is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. Opening spam E-Mails can put viruses, Warn and other malicious code into your computer system and make your computer system more vulnerable for computer attacks. vulnerabilities came form spam’s can be capable of disabling your corporate network or steal important corporate, employee data from your computer system. Distributing spam should also be a concern for you.

Sabotage by an employee: A knowledgeable employee can easily put a malicious program on your network. It then could be used to steal information that the employee could not otherwise access. No one should have sole access to any area of your network. You should keep an eye on things, too. If your antivirus software is not working properly, you may have an internal problem. Same goes for firewall failures. You should have more than one person who is familiar with the network, in addition to yourself. This is similar to accounting controls, where no one person can access the money. Two employees should be watching things. You should be watching, too.

Virus: A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. viruses can be classified into four major categories File Infectors,System or boot-record infectors, Macro viruses and multi-part viruses. Viruses and worms will slow down your computer system’s performance and reduce productivity.  At their worst, viruses and worms can enable hackers to steal valuable corporate, customer or employee information, increase Spam, delete files or crash your entire computer system. viruses and worms are some of the most preventable threats that your company will face. Employing simple majors prevent organizations from viruses and worms.

Phishing: Phishing is online identity theft in which confidential information is obtained from an individual. It is distinguished from offline identity theft such as card skimming and “dumpster diving,” as well as from large-scale data compromises in which information about many individuals is obtained at once. Phishers accomplish their scams in following way

• Fraudulent Emails

• Keystroke Programs

• Web Site Hijacking

Phishers can replicate your logo and other identifiable characteristics to trick consumers.  Any attack using your brand can damage your corporate reputation, cost you money and drive away customers. Key steps to reduce the risk of a phishing attack include:

• Monitor or Register Sites with Similar Spelling To Yours
• Prepare.  Phishers often leave a trail of evidence so be prepared to identify the clues that a phishing attack is in its early stages:
  • Provide your customers with an email address that allows them to validate that an email they receive with your logo, etc. is really from you.
  • Monitor returned email messages as phishers often may hijack your email address to send bulk emails.
  • Log your customer service calls and check for spikes in certain types of complaints such as a password inquiries and changes.
  • Check for unusual customer account activity that has large volumes of logins, password changes, purchases, withdrawals, etc.
  • Regularly search the Internet for use of your corporate logos.

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antiphishing.org

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