Protection from Virus Malware and Ransom-Ware
| As a partner you are protected from this. Between our alliances with different backup service providers and anti-malware / anti-virus providers you are protected. Your backups are air-gapped so if your company does happen to get hit with a crypto virus your backups are NOT on your network to get encrypted. At this point it can be remdied. Without an air gapped system you run the risk of losing your entire business. Remember the gas shortage of the east coast due to the pipeline being shutdown? Yeah well that was a ransom attack. It worked too. The bad guys got paid, and folks had no gasoline. Nobody is immune from it. It's only a matter of time before it happens.to you. Be protected be vigilant and be ready. Join forces with us to save yourself and your company from what lurks out there. What are the differences? A computer virus is defined as: "A computer virus[1] is a type of computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.[2][3] If this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected" with a computer virus, a metaphor derived from biological viruses." Malware is another name for a virus but emcompasses many more types of bad actors attempting to gain access to your machines for malicious purposes. In Wikipedia it is defined as: "The best-known types of malware, viruses and worms, are known for the manner in which they spread, rather than any specific types of behavior. A computer virus is software that embeds itself in some other executable software (including the operating system itself) on the target system without the user's knowledge and consent and when it is run, the virus is spread to other executables. On the other hand, a worm is a stand-alone malware software that actively transmits itself over a network to infect other computers and can copy itself without infecting files. These definitions lead to the observation that a virus requires the user to run an infected software or operating system for the virus to spread, whereas a worm spreads itself.[19]" Ransom-Ware the worst of all. Ransomware is a type of malware from cryptovirology that threatens to publish the victim's personal data or perpetually block access to it unless a ransom is paid. While some simple ransomware may lock the system so that it is not difficult for a knowledgeable person to reverse, more advanced malware uses a technique called cryptoviral extortion. It encrypts the victim's files, making them inaccessible, and demands a ransom payment to decrypt them.[1][2][3][4] In a properly implemented cryptoviral extortion attack, recovering the files without the decryption key is an intractable problem – and difficult to trace digital currencies such as paysafecard or Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are used for the ransoms, making tracing and prosecuting the perpetrators difficult. |