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  • Stop Drive-By-Downloads

    It is time to review your anti-spam filters and your web-filters to ensure you are adequately protected against targeted email attacks as well as drive-by-download attacks. The latter attacks happen when one of your users visits an infected site. The settings your IT department configured in 2011 probably need to be reconfigured to repel new […]

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  • Quickly Identify an Attack Email Message–Know thy Enemy

    Many attacks come from the outside world. Those attacks are directed at your users. There are two ways, and teach these to your workers, to identify almost all of these dangerous email messages before the user clicks on them.

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  • Make Security Awareness Training mandatory

    These days one of the best defenses against criminal IT hacks is to have users who are “on the lookout” for malicious temptations. For example, anytime a user receives an e-mail message that indicates some kind of urgency.

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  • Old-school anti-virus is no longer the best protection

    Anti-virus sounds like a great feature, right? But anti-virus can be ineffective in fighting newer threats.

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