A recent study found that 79 percent of Web-hosted threats are hosted on legitimate sites which have been hijacked by hackers who have infected the site with the threat. The remaining 21 percent are found on rogue sites that have been designed to appear legitimate, with email “marketing” employed as the primary vehicle to direct users to these attacks.
On average, security vendors receive more than 20,000 unique malware samples every day, and more than half of all network threats they receive have utilized HTTP as a vehicle. In a growing number of cases, a user only needs to visit a Web page or view Web mail to be infected by Web-based Trojans and spyware. Email is also a significant source of malware, and is frequently used to direct users to Web-based attacks. Traditionally business’s have protected themselves with a Firewall and Anti Virus software believing this is enough to keep them secure. However, this growing number of Internet-based threats has prompted the need for a robust gateway security solution that scans both inbound and outbound traffic to detect and remove threats before they reach individual desktops.
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Paul Cox
IT technical sales consultant aka IT Guru
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