WANNACRY & CYBER-SECURITY: WHY CRITICALCASE CLIENTS ARE NOT CRYING
Italy is one of the countries most seriously affected by cyber-crime, how to fight it?
On 12 May 2017, one of the biggest cyber attack in the history had happened. That day, the WannaCry ransomware has affected more than 2.300 computers in 150 countries in a very short term. The attack had a global impact and has done damages to many companies and state agencies worlwide.
Nowadays cyber-crime is widespread and it represents one of the major issues for enterprises: what kind of solutions can be adopted to fight this crimes that are increasingly frequent?
A Trend Micro research shows as in Italy during 2016 companies have been hit by many threaths of different nature. 79% of IT managers that have been interviewed reported having experienced a big attack, while 25% claimed having suffered more than 11 attacks, and 9% has been attacked more than 25 times. The study highlights as the major threat in 2016 was ramsonware: 84% of IT directors said have been attacked at least once and 31% have been affected 5 or more times. In second place there’s phishing and then other kinds of malwares, cyber-espionage, attacks that involve employees/former-employees and compromising of account or identities.
Prevent is better than cure – why our clients are not crying
Percentages mentioned above are amongst the highest in all Europe: how companies can defend themselves from these crimes and protect their business?Companies may choose several cyber-security solutions, with different features and purposes. We will show you the main security services that assure our clients the protection against possible cyber attacks. In particular, security solutions can be divided into two categories, according to their aims.
1. Preventative security measures to fight and lock possible cyber attacks:
- Infrastructure assesstment (for instance, Penetration test)
- Firewall
2. Security measures to protect and recover rapidly data and information:
- Backup
- Disaster Recovery
- Snapshot
Next week we will analyze the various security solutions and we will explain what they are and what are their features, so stay tuned!
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