Cyber Security London -Cloudscape IT

10 March 2021

ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE
Antivirus forms a core part of any security strategy. It helps to identify and protect against viruses, spyware, ransomware, and all other types of malware.

Strong antivirus also blocks unsafe links, downloads, and email attachments, and scans your PC for performance problems.

All in all, it works to ensure the safest day-to-day running of your software and machine against a cybersecurity attack.

SECURE FIREWALLS
A crucial aspect of ensuring cybersecurity, a secure firewall constantly monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic from your computer. Firewalls either permit or block data packets based on a set of security rules.

The purpose of this is to establish a barrier between your internal network and any external sources (which could be cyber threats from the internet), making sure any dangerous traffic is blocked, traffic that may contain viruses, or has been created by hackers looking to damage your system.

By using multiple firewalls provided by different vendors, we are able to create an intelligent form of cybersecurity that has additional layers of protection, making it far more difficult for criminals to violate your defenses and access your systems.

INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems are broad terms that simply put, are cybersecurity measures that block threats to your system. Intrusion detection is reactive, it identifies and mitigates ongoing attacks, weeding out existing malware such as backdoors. It also detects social engineering such as phishing and prevents your software from being attacked, protecting your sensitive information.

Intrusion prevention is proactive, and pre-emptively blocks application attacks. It includes remote file inclusions that facilitate malware injections that can access private databases.

Used together, they protect your private and sensitive information.