Tips to increase your cyber security
Cyberattacks and data leaks have serious consequences for companies, public authorities and private individuals. They threaten both the security and privacy of users.
The cyber threat level in Germany is currently very high. Every year, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) publishes the IT Security Situation Report, which provides a comprehensive overview of cybersecurity. Ransomware in particular remains the main threat to IT security. The methods of extortion have become increasingly diverse, including big game hunting, DDoS attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). The number of known vulnerabilities in various software products has also increased.
Business owners or managers should ask themselves the following questions to protect their company from the catastrophic consequences of a hacker attack:
- What IT security measures are there?
- How effective are they?
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Prevention is still the most effective IT security measure. Any IT infrastructure whose current vulnerabilities and security gaps have been eliminated makes an important contribution to your company’s cyber security. However, the security risks for corporate IT are manifold, especially now that hackers are evolving so rapidly. That’s why you need a tool that covers this diversity and grows with it.
Our DEFENDERBOX is the ideal tool for this: It monitors the entire IT infrastructure, including the connected devices at a location, like a “chain of four defenses” in front of your own gate. Thousands of algorithms scan vulnerabilities and security gaps, which can then be rectified. The results of the pentests (penetration tests) are available as a report within a short period of time.
We use DEFENDERBOX to check thousands of servers, PCs, printers and network components every week. However, the results are alarming:
In 89% of the cases, critical vulnerabilities are found in several affected devices.
Some examples are:
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Incorrectly configured network drives. Incorrect configuration makes them accessible to anyone and allows ransomware to spread easily or confidential data to be read.
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Smart home controls whose default configuration has never been customized. The default accounts can be easily accessed and changes made. In this way, changed administrator rights enable attacks on the entire network.
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Printers that allow the printed data to be read. This gives hackers the opportunity to obtain sensitive content from everything that is printed.
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Network components that have been configured so that everything that happens in the network and which computers are present can be read out.
Fixing the weak points is usually easy. Often it’s just small things that have been overlooked but have a massive impact. This is because the computer landscape is constantly growing and changing, even in small companies — and so is the potential for danger. This is why a weekly pentest makes perfect sense, as this is the only way to prevent hacker attacks from paralyzing your company.
Reports speak louder than words: Use a test installation to find out which security gaps and vulnerabilities exist in your IT infrastructure. Here find out more.
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