Phishing and How to Prevent Malware Attacks
Cyber-hackers are definitely prodigious creatures of the darker side of the cyberwars, who have the knowhow on how to breach security protocols. They are not ordinary guys with average intelligence. They are definitely endowed with higher intelligence; however, they are using their intelligence to breach networks and pilfer information and data from those networks. Hence, if they are intelligent beings, they also understand exactly the psychological behavior of the common users of computers. They know exactly that there is an inherent propensity in every man for being curious about anything that is unusual. This inherent tendency to be curious is usually exploited by cyber-hackers to gain access into huge networks.
If you would take into considerations some of the most successful malware attacks in the past, you would readily see that most successful malware attacks happened because some ordinary end-users within the networks inadvertently clicked on a phishing email. Out of curiosity, an ignorant employee—just like in the case of Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) case of malware attack—clicked on a file ignorantly, and inadvertently unleash a malware attack into the BWL network. In most successful malware attacks, phishing threats are the most common denominators behind the success of such attacks.
How to Absolutely Prevent Malware Attacks?
It may seem impossible to absolutely prevent malware attacks as long as browsers have their own vulnerabilities. Malware are evolving in the same way that cyber-attacks are evolving. Hence, if you want to employ a phishing protection system that would absolutely prevent any malware intrusion, you should make your network totally free of any malicious emails and files. However, making your network absolutely invulnerable to malware attacks is almost impossible as long as your employees are using browsers and opening emails and files. Yet, you can minimize the possibility of malware attacks by minimizing the contacts between your network and malware. This can be done by employing the use of an isolation platform or isolation technology.
What is Isolation Technology?
There are some innovative security experts who have devised newer ways of containing malware. Some of them made use of deception technology to trick cyber-attackers into attacking a decoy network. This decoy network is littered with traps, designed to lure the cyber-attackers and eventually reveal the very nature of these cyber-attackers. On the other hand, some more enterprising network security experts make use of isolation technology to absolutely prevent the network from having any contact with malware. Isolation technology becomes possible due to the onset of cloud technology. In the case of the isolation technology, an isolation platform is created in the cloud wherein all the browsing and surfing within a network are done. This isolation platform is like a bubble wherein all surfing and browsing are safely done. Lastly, this platform is seamlessly integrated into the network as if the end-users within the network are really doing their browsing not in the virtual platform.
The use of isolation technologies has concomitant advantages. First, it virtually isolate malicious web content. Second, it is cost-effective. Third, it is definitely manageable. Lastly, it can completely secure your network from malware attacks.