New Threats Call for Layered Security Approach
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 8:59AM | Immunet Team Cyber attacks are reaching pandemic levels, according to a recent report by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. As the threat mushrooms, protecting against it has become ever more complex. According to the report:
"Security is always a cat-and-mouse game between hackers and security vendors," says Kartik Hosanagar, a professor of operations and information management at Wharton. "What has changed is that both companies and hackers have grown sophisticated. So the good news is that most security software will protect us from the most basic threats, which was not the case in the past. But the bad news is that malware and viruses have become more sophisticated, so even advanced users can fall prey to them."
Worms associated with interactive media and malware affecting social networking sites are particularly dangerous, he notes, because "for example, you are less likely to be suspicious of a message from a friend on Facebook asking you to click on a video link. And yet, this kind of attack is on the rise" even as Facebook, Twitter, and other such sites are increasingly being used by businesses.
This is why Immunet Protect advocates taking a layered approach to antivirus security. Today’s threat landscape is far more sophisticated than the security industry has ever seen and using just one antivirus product isn’t enough. Running two antivirus programs at once was previously frowned upon, but as the threat landscape – and antivirus solutions evolved – the layered strategy has become the advised approach.
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