Business Network Support San Diego – Layered Security

Much like a would be thief may check for unlocked cars before going through the effort of breaking into a car. Attackers of business networks throw a large net and only focus on businesses that have wholes in their network they already have tools to enter. Close the wholes and you protect yourself from attack.

Biggest Threats facing San Diego Businesses Network Support

Ransomware

Ransomware is one of the biggest threats to face San Diego Businesses. Just in 2018 the Port of San Diego fell victim to a ransomware attack. Because they had proper measures in place they were able to recover the loss data with out paying the ransom. Other manicipalities were not so lucky. Some even paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to retrieve their data after a ransomware attack shut them down for weeks.

Phishing

Phishing is a less known and talked about threat facing businesses in San Diego. It was a phishing attack that took down Hillary’s campaign manager. Allowing the release of sensitive campaign data. For small business networks we support in San Diego most likely the attackers will try to gain access to your email to submit false invoices to be paid or try to reuse gained passwords to access other critical systems like your bank account. Phishing is when an attacker will send an email that mimics legit services like your bank, email system, or other critical password protected services asking you to input your password. Once completed the attacker can gain access using the password you gave them.

Remote Access Trojans

Another big threat facing businesses in San Diego is malware like Remote Access Trojans, RATs are usually downloaded from the internet or email systems. They can be packaged with other software and installed in the background. Businesses that are downloading “pirated” software or not blocking use of illicit websites are at a greater risk. A remote access trojan allows an attacker to access the computer remotely as if they were sitting in front of it. They can record keystrokes to learn passwords. They can scan the computer memory to obtain sensitive info like

Old Passwords

A often not thought about threat facing businesses in San Diego is re-using old passwords. Often times large organizations providing online services can suffer from a data breach. This often times can expose unencrypted passwords that was used. If you reuse that password anywhere else attackers may gain access to your account by brute forcing the service with previously exposed passwords.

Why Layered Business Network Protection Works

When any single defense against a would be attacker fails having a layered network protection can provide a backup defense in the case of a flaw or missing coverage. The strengths of an individual layer can cover any gaps in other defenses.

Each layer in a layered security approach focuses on a specific area that vulnerabilities exist. Working together these layers of security offer protection from would be attackers of your business network than only deploying a single solution.

Different Layers of Security you can deploy to protect your Business network

• Web protection
• Patch management
• Email security and archiving
• Vulnerability assessment and analytics
• Antivirus software
• Data encryption
• Firewalls
• Digital certificates
• Anti-spam and spam filters
• Privacy controls

These layers of security are crucial for any small Business to protect data across the numerous applications and devices. It is important that not only your data is protected but so is the methods of communication and the business network where information is exchanged.

Patch Management

Hackers typically cast a wide net of thousands of business networks and only breach those that fit their preprogrammed hacking tools. Most of the time proper managment of Patches will close these holes and protect against known malware.

Under Junxion Technology’s proactive business network support plan in San Diego we make sure that your computers are updated to the latest patch. We discover the relevant essential service packs, security updates and other hotfixes and them ensure they are installed on appropriate devices to protect your business network.

• We scan computers, servers, and workstations to set intervals to discover unpatched machines
• Find and download missing patches from vendor websites
• Download and installing required fixes on specific computers

Antivirus

Anti-virus is step one in protecting your business network from Mal-ware. It’s so important that Windows 10 ships with a free antivirus Windows Defender. However Defender isn’t going far enough to protect from the fast growing malware that exists in today’s business landscape. With Junxion Technology’s proactive business network support in San Diego, we install a top of the line anti-virus that uses AI to detect antivirus not previously discovered in the wild. All computers on are support plan report back to us in a central console so we can easily manage infections remotely and ensure proper working of your anti-virus.

Web Protection

Web protection or DNS filtering stops malware at the source. Many business network infiltration could be stopped if the user was prevented from browsing to the source of the infection in the first place. A world wide malware black list is maintained and blocked using DNS filtering before you can reach any would be attack.

This service is provided as an Add-on to our Proactive Business Network Support in San Diego plan and is highly recommended addition to our Layered Security approach.

Email Protection

Email is the life blood of most businesses. This makes email a big target of attackers who use it to breach security and gain access to critical data.

Deploying email based anti-virus and spam filtering can stop attacks from reaching your users before they happen. We offer email protections as an addon to our proactive business network support plan. While some cloud based vendors offer a spam filtering service they can be augmented with a more advanced tool to stop malware in it’s tracks.

Backups for Business Network Support San Diego

In the fight against ransomware the best tool you have is backups. If you have good backups of your data can be recovered with out paying the ransom or loosing too much downtime. With our pro-Active business support plan we will manage your backups and provide onsite as well as offsite backups to keep you running in any disaster.