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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).

The threat status of security prevents malware capable of making their creations more quickly circulated, said a manager at Symantec.

The incidence of threats and security incidents seems to be reaching a saturation point, and has shown Kevin Haley, director of security for Symantec, who says that malware writers are no longer able to circulate their creations faster.

“I think we have reached a saturation point,” said Haley, who says the situation is similar to that produced heavy rain, when “the soil can not absorb more water and start to create a pool. We have reached that point with security incidents, “says the security officer, Symantec.

Cyber Crime Data Index of Norton 2010 show that the explosive growth that has occurred in the malware industry has been seen in the last decade and can not be sustained. In his blog, the executive argues that the future will create new hacking tools, propagation methods, or more platforms and victims who become infected, but that “now things start to stagnate.”

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.”

If you want a very secure operating system and high information security the option is and perhaps will remain Windows.

And so it should be: Windows has the obligation to be the most secure operating systems that are not free, obviously there must be more secure only by the large number of hackers who create viruses and malware for Windows.

If windows will not work in security so hard, fast windows could go bankrupt.

The phenomenon that is very safe windows is very similar to what happens with the social networks Facebook and twitter.

Hackers are more interested in attacks and distribute malware on sites like Facebook and Twitter, just because there’s more chance of success that anyone can fall victim to malware, a much greater chance of successful visits to hackers.

Hackers then are not interested in attacking lower ranking sites simply because they are worth.

The same goes for Windows, hackers are absolutely convinced that Windows is the most popular operating system and therefore is where most chances of success will have a hacker attack.

Perhaps taking into account the above, windows works harder to constantly improve their safety, releasing patches, updates, bulletins, alerts, giving support forums, providing help and support, etc..

Perhaps all this is a marketing strategy, but the truth is that all marketing aids or windows are not very helpful.

To end this post just a quote from pcworl.com.mx downright corroborates what we have said, the cited source says

“Marc Maiffret, who in his day (when I was 17) faced FBI agents head pointing a gun after having been accused of hacking, work at the moment trying to find holes in Microsoft applications and facing the malicious code, ”

According to the hacker, Apple is just beginning to take security seriously. “It’s a little frustrating, because they are sold as safer than a PC and the user has to worry about viruses, etc.. And any time you make a contest of hackers, and within hours, found a new vulnerability in Apple, “said Maiffret, who recommends both Apple and its users to take security more seriously.

“If they did not declare to be safer than Microsoft because they are not. The Apple community is somewhat ignorant about the risks to Apple. The only reason we do not see more attacks against Apple is because the number of users approaches the one with Microsoft “