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...Email threats continued
Email Threats To Business Privacy, Network Integrity, Computer Integrity, Essential Business Systems Integrity.
At most companies, all it takes is a single errant click or the misguided curiosity of a single employee to unleash foreign malicious code that quickly circulates throughout a local network, potentially infecting every machine or stealing all DOC files before anyone is even aware of what has happened. This program would be running with all of the access that the employee has to confidential information, network systems and data. Imagine if this employee is your payroll clerk or has a file with your customer list. Be sure not to fool yourself. People want your data.
Antivirus software does not protect you
Remember legacy antivirus software does nothing to protect against new threats, viruses still below the radar, or small scale attacks, including attacks aimed at a specific company by disgruntled familiars or competitors.
This threat is a function of simple social engineering. Imagine the common case where an employee’s “new acquaintance” sends an email titled something like “This is funny. It made me think of you.” Attached to the email is an executable with some amusing animation or such. Also hidden in the executable is a tiny piece of spyware that either records keystrokes (capturing network passwords) or starts looking around the network for all DOC files that it promptly and invisibly sends to some offshore file storage. If this is a new piece of spyware, or one written specifically to target your company, no legacy virus scan is going to find it. You are presently unprotected from this very common attack.
Solution that works
Virtual Sandbox provides an effortless and nonrestrictive solution to this problem. Virtual Sandbox automatically runs file attachments contained and isolated from personal files or network resources. When an employee endeavors to open an attachment a sandbox is created, instantly and seamlessly, to isolate the attachment. Once the employee is finished viewing the attachment, the sandbox is destroyed and traces of the attachment’s execution are discarded. There is never exposure of personal or business data and no network access for the attachment. The attachment cannot leave anything behind to spy or conduct mischief. The attachment cannot view the contents of surrounding computers, probing for weaknesses or private information. The attachments are rendered harmless.
Easy email security
Virtual Sandbox has a special feature designed specifically to ease securing email attachments. Virtual Sandbox, as its default behavior, prompts the user before executing new applications, whether they were received in email, downloaded, or brought on removable media.
For email there is a special feature called “Isolate Offspring.” This feature is turned on for all well known email applications when Virtual Sandbox is installed and does not require any user intervention. Attachments that a user tries to launch from email will be automatically isolated in a sandbox, with no user prompting, and no chance to execute uncontained.
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Download Virtual Sandbox today. It takes just three minutes to install on each machine. You can finally feel secure about your level of threat exposure.