Almost a fifth of SME-sized UK manufacturers have suffered an online security breach in the last 12 months and it is estimated that this kind of attack costs the targeted company an average of £35,000 to £65,000. ***
The most notable attack recently is the Heartbleed bug, but what is it? And how can you protect yourself from attacks such as these?
What is it?
The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users. ****
According to www.computerweekly.com Technology industry heavyweights have joined forces to fund open-source software development projects, such as OpenSSL, to help prevent future bugs like Heartbleed.
How can you protect yourself from such attacks as these?
Companies can ensure that the basic security features are preforming correctly, these include Firewalls, Anti-virus Software, Anti-Spam solutions etc. Ensuring these are up-to-date and working correctly will give your organisation the essential basic level of security required to defend against attackers. Where you take your business security from there is dependent on the type and level of security your data needs.
Syntax IT Services provide Data Protection and Network Security. We can review your current security against your business requirements, from this we are able to tailor the correct Security Suite to your business, giving you peace of mind.
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