This is an excerpt from Small Business School.
Hattie: I learned more about viruses from Art Wong, Vice-president of Symantec Security response. Symantec is famous for its Norton antivirus software which sits on 120 million desktops worldwide. This company is another force for good helping us fight the bad and the ugly.
Art: Well, best practice is that you shouldn’t open the attachments from people like your unfamiliar with in terms of receiving emails from or its seems unusual that someone maybe sending you emails regarding a particular topic or with particular attachments that are attach to it. You should always be wary and very diligent about who you’re getting email from what you’re reading and what you open it. And to prevent a lot of that they have good antivirus software that’s up to date, it’ll stop a lot of that. It will stop a lot of the email viruses that most people get it.
People who go on the internet, use email and surf they don’t deserve to be broken into. They don’t deserve to get viruses. They don’t deserve to get worms or plenty of threats and all we have to do as our first step is really install the software, the common sense software that they can get any where just do that type of protection to prevent them from getting the next virus or worm or plenty of threat.
Hattie: We can’t be too busy to do this. We have to stop and do it.
Art: We absolutely have to stop and do it today. It doesn’t take very much time at all. It’s actually pretty simple.
Male: What we have there is MacAfee software that protects our entire pipe line from internet to work station. We have a desktop version all the software that scans everything that’s open to buy that particular work station. We also have a serve version that patrols any emails that come in. Any attachments associated with those emails etcetera. So it’s on everybody’s work station. The user of that workstation doesn’t have to think about it.
Art: In addition to their own data or their own information and assets that can be stolen or compromise, home users, small businesses their computer systems can be use to attack other computer systems worldwide. Unknown to them, they can be very easily infected by worms and viruses without them knowing and then those computer system are then use to attack other computer systems.
Hattie: Does the firewall help, is that a beginning point to keep the crapes out?
Female: Absolutely a beginning point but there is no silver bullet here. Unfortunately we can’t give small businesses a magic pill that they can swallow and they can basic of other security issues in one pill. They’re going to need firewalling technologies and I would recommend both at their perimeter which means as people come out you know either go inside out or outside into their environment but also resident on their desktops. I’ve recommend an antiviral solution like a virus scan or a service like an ASAP services and then they probably need to consider a VPN if they’re remote workers you know the principle is dialing it at night. He wants to go home early anytime his remotely accessing his resources into the environment. He needs also VPN technology. So there’s a serious of things they’re going to need.
Hattie: So all—some was all the upside of mobility and you bet what is computing has brought with it the downside of hazard.
Female: Yap, that is the paradox. It’s on one hand we’re trying to open up our networks and our environment so that we can collaborate with our partners. We can be more in touch with our customers. Our place going to have more flexible work hours at the same time every time we do that we’re opening up in a wholes in our environment and for every good guy that can communicate through those channels so can bad guys.
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