How Malware can Affect Your Business

Organizations, big and small, come under the attack of malware all the time. When that happens, the user of the network, the visitors, the computers linked to the network and even mobile devices are seriously compromised.

Malware directly affects the essential operations of your organization. That is to say that the malware can glean sensitive information about the organization, the staff, customers/clients, and even the products or services. This information can even be used for criminal purposes.

Malware is basically software that is designed with codes and scripts to penetrate or destroy your organization’s IT setup from within. With the damage malware can inflict, the reputation of your company can be seriously compromised.

Most hackers systemically scan millions of websites to look for known vulnerabilities to break in, which allows them to write their own ‘bad code’, which in this case serves as the malware.

·        Threat to Online Businesses

Business owners who run an online business need to have a very strong online presence. The website should be compatible with every type of technology. This makes it very easy for users to find you and avail your products or services, meaning that your website needs to be continuously functional.

However, malware can implement can attack called DDoS (Distributed Denial of Server) which overloads your network with requests and crashes it. The longer users can’t access your website, the more your reputation is likely to suffer and the longer your productivity will be halted for.

·        How Else Can Web Malware Hurt Your Business?

Currently there are over 3,500 new bits of malware that consistently contaminate over 30,000 sites. Organizations spend billions of dollars on cyber security every year on web application vulnerability scanning, but rarely do they put emphasis on web malware.

When introduced in your systems, web malware can take over the security measures, turn away users, steal sensitive information, destroys network functionality, hinders productivity and significantly affects your online reputation.

·        How Should You Protect Your Online Presence?

You can contact Lean Security for its effective Malware Detection Service.  Their malware detection service recognizes and removes viruses, worms and blocks the key loggers, hijackers and other malwares from accessing private websites. The service stops the execution of known malware and stops the threat from spreading. This ensures that all known malware programs are cleaned from all possible end points. Malware detection service also provides strong protection against all malware residents on endpoints.

Lean Security also offers WAF managed security services which ensure that your web applications remain completely safe. For more details, you can visit http://www.leansecurity.com.au/