More challenging is increasing data protection amid the surge in malicious attacks coming from inside and outside the organization.
Unfortunately, during malicious attacks the worst-case scenario is more likely to be true.
Perhaps the biggest concern for users of Internet phone systems is their susceptibility to the same kind of malicious attacks that cripple personal computers every day.
Ensuring that their systems are set to operate as simple users rather than a having the powerful administrative rights of system administrators, can keep the attackers from running malicious software on their computers and stop the attacks.
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For now, Lehman Brothers isn't seeing much in the way of concerted, malicious attacks on its wireless network.
Patch the system and stay secure from malicious attacks, or keep their freedom to install much-loved unauthorized apps?
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South Korea's communication watchdog said the attacks were caused by malicious code, but it didn't have any evidence linking the attack to North Korea.
Executives interviewed for the report indicated that the social media risk is rising, and they worry about cyber attacks, breaches of confidentiality, fast-spreading malicious rumors about the company, as well as financial disclosures.
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If that is a concern, then they do need to work with their internet service provider, and perhaps with a cloud-specialty anti-DDoS provider, because those organizations have infrastructures and massive amounts of internet bandwidth which can actually absorb gigantic attacks, filter out the majority of malicious traffic, and then send the good stuff through to the end user.
The attacks come as security experts warn of efforts by malicious hackers to target the oil and energy industry.
With the acquisition of Fortify Software, HP will offer a complete, market-leading solution that helps organizations reduce business risk, meet compliance regulations and protect against malicious application attacks by integrating security assurance seamlessly across the application life cycle.
Over the past two years it said it had detected 26 phishing and 50 malicious software attacks which were not automatically blocked.
The networks had been attacked by malicious codes, rather than distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as initially suspected.
Companies tend to react to cyber attacks rather than prepare for them, and malicious hackers meanwhile learn new tricks to circumvent the gates.
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