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Computer security is not only important to ensure trust with their users, it is necessary from the moment when a transfer of private data, as in the case of most companies today.

A fault no matter how small, any detail that escapes the control of a company may cause distrust and incurring large losses and a bad image.

It is therefore important and essential to have adequate security systems to ensure the privacy of your data and avoid the risk of irreparable damage to your business.

For this, in addition to computer evidence backups and contract data recovery preventive explained in their respective sections, we offer our customers other products and services to maintain information security:

Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS / UPS) and power filters: the deterioration in the quality of commercial power service can be very different due to factors such as lightning on the laying electrical, shorts, human errors or failures in the Electrical machinery companies, interference by external elements and the start / stop of heavy electrical machinery from neighboring companies.

To correct these shortcomings of the voltage, we offer our customers a complete range of UPS, surge protector power strips and surge protectors.

Antivirus: The antivirus you manage to offer an adequate balance between the current development of antivirus and effective protection against the potential dangers that threaten your PC, running on different operating systems.

Viruses, worms and other malware are kept away from the valuable data on your computer, using advanced methods of detection and integrated protection system to provide superior defense even on those harmful elements that have not yet been cataloged.

Firewall products and services monitored and managed firewall and VPN to help organizations detect and respond to unwanted intrusion or malicious attacks from hackers with security monitoring in real time, 24 hours, 7 days a week and an expert analysis of firewall logs.

Spam filter: new system that only allows you to receive e-mails from anyone with permission. Thus we arrive emails only from senders to whom you have wanted to leave (while the avalanche of spam will not be rejected as never before even).

Shin, a fictional character whose name means “faith” or “trust,” sits by his laptop in the living room of his home in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. He is busy at work for his boss, dictator Kim Jong-il. His work, make sure some spyware gets into specific computers at the Pentagon so he can gain vital top secret information. He is particularly interested now that the U.S. government suspected that his country might soon conduct its first nuclear test.

With spyware surreptitiously installed on computers, he could, for example, engage in the practice of keylogging. Shin is, our “trustworthy” could zone real keys on the computer hit by Pentagon officials. This will help them learn their passwords, the content of email messages, encryption keys, or other means to bypass security measures on the strength of the defense of our nation. Shin not interested in crashing computers at the Pentagon or making them otherwise operable. That would be too open and could reveal it. He is simply after information.

Other types of spyware, sometimes called “malware” because it really spy on their computer habits. They could instead just prey you with annoying popups, for example. Or you might give a different home page that is not of your choosing, as one of an advertiser. But by the time these types of malware, or adware as it is sometimes called, are not very useful for Shin. He wants to use spyware that actually spies.

Over in another part of the globe in Turkey, a fictional terrorist sits with his own laptop in a suspected cell of Al Qaeda Earthists. But he is not out to infect computers with spyware. That is child’s play. He is out to bring the house down. This story is strictly hypothetical. But say the terrorist wanted to disrupt the daily hubub in a major American corporation. He infect computers with a virus!

The terrorist might try to attack the company’s extensive network of inserting a worm in it. Worms reside in RAM, and travel from machine to machine and, unlike the classic viruses, they attack the computers themselves rather than individual files. Very disruptive. This virus could potentially make the computers inoperable.

Bring down the goings-on in a major corporation spreading a worm through the computer network, and the terrorist could have a field day. But hopefully not.

So to summarize, the spyware can often lose sight of your computer habits, and viruses are often out to disable computers in a certain way. Therefore the difference.

A study says the market for mobile security software will reach one billion dollars in 2013.

Users of smartphones and tablets are hardly aware that their devices need protection, but this need will become more apparent. In fact, according to a report by Juniper Research, the market for mobile security software will reach one billion dollars in 2013 and will reach 3.6 billion in 2016.

The study says that currently only about 27 million mobile devices are protected against malware, representing 4% of smartphones and tablets. In 2016, however, this protection will be present in more than 277 million mobile devices.

The report’s author, Nitin Bhas, stressed the need to protect mobile devices just as it does with equipment. “Internet is the same access from your smartphone or laptop,” he said, “so that the threats are the same.”

Methods to reduce or mitigate risks associated with viruses can be denominated assets or liabilities.

Active methods

* Antivirus: programs that try to discover the traces left by a malicious software, to detect and remove, and in some cases contain or stop pollution. Try to have checked the system while running stopping the known pathways of infection and notifying the user of potential security incidents.

* File filters: filters is to generate harmful files if the computer is connected to a network. These filters can be used, for example, in the postal system or by using firewall techniques. In general, this system provides security which do not require user intervention, can be very effective, and allow only employ resources more selectively.

Passive methods

* Avoid putting the team removable storage media that are suspected to be infected.
* Avoid putting removable storage are suspected infected machines.
* Do not install pirated software. Avoid programs that include crack, key generators, serial numbers, etc.
* Avoid free Internet software download sites that do not show clear information on their activities and their products or services.
* Do not open messages from unknown e-mail address, or a promotion very tempting, or highly suggestive images or names.
* Do not accept e-mails from strangers. And if it is known contacts, see the language, the vocabulary used in the message, the time it was sent, etc.
* Keep the OS and applications updated as often published security patches solving problems of vulnerability to impending attacks.
* Back up and try to automate the retrieval system is the best alternative because you are never 100% free from infection.

* Maintain centralized information will help restore data in case of infection.

Most spam consists of commercials, usually for dubious products, ways to get rich or services on the border of legality.

This is a tricky question, because, strictly speaking, no human form (or mechanical) to avoid it altogether. You can point out a number of suggestions, while not waterproof by us to spam, it does at least they will decrease significantly. Read the rest of this entry »