Preserving the integrity of computers and servers, of data
or of the corporate website should be a priority for all companies. Today, here
we will talk about 10 threats to computer security that you should avoid and know,
we give you the necessary clues to prevent them. Personally, I recommend
investing a little money and time in renewing or installing a new antivirus rather than
having to format a computer or server for not having done it on time.
This blog will be in 2 parts. So stay tuned…
10
Threats to Your Company's IT Security That You Should Avoid
Did you know that at least 430 million new types of
malicious software are there? And we are only talking about those that which we
able to detect. The document concludes that the companies lost or suffered the
theft of around 500 million personal data of their employees.
Industrial espionage, economic blackmail, theft of
sensitive information ... Cybercrime can have many faces. But all of them
involve a cost for those affected. And when it comes to a business, the
consequences can translate into significant financial losses.
And it is not only large companies that are subject to
these computer security risks. SMEs have long suffered all kinds of threats to
the security of their systems, servers, databases or web pages.
What
Are The Main Threats To My Company's IT Security?
Let's see below the types of risks that your business runs
if you do not take the precautionary measures to avoid it.
Most of them are cases of malware, also known as
"malicious code" or "malicious software." But we will also
talk about practices that, although they can take advantage of malware, do not
stop there, and go one step further on the scale of cybercrime.
Computer
viruses
They are the best known threats to the non-IT public. It is
basically code that infects an executable program and that spreads by copying
itself and infecting other programs or files.
Its consequences and its severity vary greatly. Some
viruses are only intended to play a prank on the user; others can cause
software to malfunction, damage hardware, or even infect an entire network of
users.
Viruses always need human action to activate themselves
(for example, by executing infected software due to ignorance).
The economic losses if it damages the company's software,
the operating system or the computers and devices themselves can be very large.
Keep your antivirus updated, you
cannot imagine the amount of time lost and the money that companies lose having
their employees sit idly by for not having invested a little time and money in
updating their antivirus.
Worms
What name do they put true? But they do behave like that
and I assure you they don't turn into butterflies, they are often mistaken for
viruses. However, worms, unlike them, do not need human action to activate,
copy themselves and spread throughout the network. Because that's what they do!
They can, for example, be copied and sent to each of your
contacts through your email or instant messaging service, and repeat the
operation with the address book of each of your contacts. Its propagation
capacity grows exponentially.
Worms often crash computers, servers, and the network,
hogging resources, consuming bandwidth, and causing serious performance problems.
But they can also be used for even darker purposes, such as
creating large networks of zombie computers, controlled by bots that can use
them to send spam in bulk, launch cyberattacks or download all kinds of malware
onto the computer.
Can you imagine how much damage worms can do to your computer
equipment and your network?
Trojans
Do you remember the Trojan horse in which the Greeks hid to
enter the city of the Trojans and defeat them? Well, the malware known as a Trojan
does the same, but on your computer!
A Trojan horse or computer Trojan usually enters your
computer or your device taking advantage of legitimate software downloads. (Be
careful when downloading programs, I recommend that you always download it from
the official domain and be careful with the word free in this context, it almost
always has something hidden).
Hence its name, because the Trojan horse was supposedly a
harmless gift from the Greeks to the Trojans for its valor in battle.
Its objective? Opening a back door to hackers so they can
control your computer and its software.
Unlike viruses and worms, the Trojan does not harm or
spread. That is why it goes unnoticed, something important to fulfill its
function.
Adware
Another popularity champion among users. And is that the
effects of adware do not go unnoticed. Who has not suffered the inconvenience
of surfing the Internet surrounded by a sea of
spam ads and pop-up windows that open in the browser in an uncontrolled
way?
Adware is a seemingly harmless type of software compared to
some of the previous types of malware, but it can drastically lower the
performance of workers who need to surf the Internet to perform their tasks.
Sometimes adware includes an “antivirus” or some other paid
registration option that eliminates the problem. It is a hoax perpetrated by
the authors of the adware to be eradicated.
Using an updated antivirus can prevent
you from adware and keeps you safe from all the threats.
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