WyzGuys Tech Talk

As reported in the CompTIA Smart Brief on May 6th, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Symantec, the inventor of antivirus software, is declaring that host-based software security solutions can not stop enough malware exploits to be useful.  The problem with most exploits is that they take advantage of computer users’ trusting nature and gullibility to trick them in to permitting something that the software would usually like to block, or the malefactors gain access to systems and networks using stolen but legitimate user credentials.  Software based solutions can not block what is permitted by a human user, and are vulnerable to these types of exploits.

So rather than futilely battling to keep the cyber-attackers out,  Symantec and other computer and network security firms are looking at standalone hardware based perimeter defenses, intrusion detection systems, and traffic analysis systems to detect when a breach is occurring, likely to be occurring, or has already occurred, and take action to alert security and system administrators and locate and minimize the amount of damage that can happen.

The take-away for business owners is that you need to be upping your game when it comes to computer and network security, and look to acquire some significant perimeter defenses.  It probably makes sense to find a information security expert to consult about a project of this type.