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In
just over a decade, most of us have become familiar with the term
computer virus. International magazines and newspapers regularly
have virus-scares as leading stories. There is no doubt that our
culture is fascinated by the potential danger of these viruses.
Over the past two years alone, virus threats have become increasingly
sophisticated. By now you know the names of these network enemies:
Melissa, Love Bug, Nimda, Code Red, and others. The number of
known viruses surpassed 70,000 in January 2002, and the number
of new viruses discovered every month continues to increase. In
the last quarter of 2001, a leading anti-virus vendor's virus
lab was processing around 1200 new viruses each month.
Why
should this worry my business?
Typically
viruses infect businesses via the Internet or through email attachments.
Even if your business is not connected to the Internet there remains
ways in which your IT systems could become infected. For example,
an employee could bring in a floppy disk from home and copy a
game or document from the disk that is infected.
Why should my business worry about being infected by a virus?
Many
people believe the worst a virus can do is format your hard disk.
In fact, this type of payload is now harmless for those of us
who back up our important data, the net result is a loss in productivity
whilst the data is recovered.
Much
more destructive viruses are those which subtly corrupt data.
Consider, for example, the effects of a virus that randomly changes
numbers in spreadsheet applications by plus or minus 10% at a
stockbrokers. Other nasty viruses post company confidential documents
in your own name to inappropriate Internet newsgroups, an act
that can both ruin your reputation and the company's confidentiality.
These
nasty pieces of malicious code are capable of re-occurring in
your network Just when you think you have eradicated an outbreak,
one rogue user who missed the update can cause more downtime,
loss of productivity and damage to customer goodwill.
The
most vulnerable groups of users are those with the least resources
dedicated to anti-virus management - businesses with 250 users
or less. Effectively
managing your users is the key to strong anti-virus protection,
but you don't have the time or resources to visit every desk in
your organization once a week to confirm every update.
How
can Agilitie help?
Agilitie can provide your business with a cost-effective, easy
to manage anti-virus solution that will protect your business'
IT systems.
Agilitie
offer a comprehensive anti-virus solution that protects both servers
and desktops from viruses. To be effective, any given solution
needs to be capable of protecting against the latest virus threats,
provide continuous monitoring, protect against attacks from e-mail.
Agilitie's
solution achieves all three of the above. By automatically retrieving
updates of the latest virus threats and subsequently distributing
those updates to all systems protected by the solution, your business
maintains the highest level of protection against virus attacks.
No need to worry about a rogue system that may not be running
the latest software re-infecting your business.
Every
system protected by Agilitie's solution will be configured such
that it is continuously scanning the system for viruses. In this
way whatever your users may be doing; opening e-mails, files;
downloading web pages; you can be reassured that they are being
monitored and protected from viruses.
As
part of our solution, Agilitie will visit your site to discuss
your anti-virus requirements and undertake an IT systems audit
to understand your current IT environment, ensuring that we deliver
a solution that provides the best levels of protection.
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