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Isolation Platform and Malware Prevention

There are various tips on how to remove and prevent malware attacks on your computers and network. One of these tips advises that you purchase an antivirus software as your first line of defense against malware attacks. Second, you should make use of firewalls to diminish successful malware attacks. You can ask your internet provider about which antivirus software and firewall that you can install on your network. Third, you should keep your antivirus software up-to-date. Moreover, you should keep your other applications updated to ensure that they would never be used as avenues for malware attacks. Other network security pundits would readily advise you to steer away from high-risk sites because these sites surely contain malicious codes that could infect your network or any of the computers in your network. Fourth, you should steer away from file-sharing sites that could be harboring programs that are malicious. Fifth, you should advise the end-users within your network to be aware of malicious emails. There are phishing emails that could look innocently harmless, but are harboring malicious codes that could compromise the integrity of your network. The above mentioned simple malware prevention measures can definitely save your network from the hassles concomitant with malware attacks.

The above mentioned tips, however, are tips that could greatly help network managers in preventing malware attacks, and these tips are proven to be very effective in mitigating the onset of malware attacks. Yet, the above mentioned tips are passive security measures that are designed to preclude cyber-attacks without meeting the cyber-attackers head-on. To ensure that the security measures that you employ on your network are really effective, you need to employ proactive security measures that are designed to hound cyber-attackers and to diminish the points of contact or surface contacts between your network and the outside of your network. These proactive measures are necessary, especially, if you are harboring or protecting sensitive information that may compromise the accounts and important information of your business or organization and of your clients and customers.

Malware Isolation Through the Use of Decoy Network

Malware isolation can be easily achieved via the employment of decoy technologies that are designed to deceive cyber-attackers into believing that they are attacking the real network. In real life, no war is won without the use of some elements of deception. Similarly, in cyberwar, you will never win any battle against cyber-attackers if you are not employing deception technology. Deception technology makes use of decoy networks that seem to appear as the real networks to cyber-attackers. Cyber-attackers may eventually reveal their very nature by attacking these decoy networks.

Malware Isolation through the Employment of Isolation Platform  

Via the use of isolation platform located in the cloud, malware isolation can also be achieved. Isolation platform is very effective because it reduces the contact surface between malware and the network. Since all browsing are done via the isolation platform, the network will definitely not fall victim to cyber-hackers via the natural vulnerabilities of browsers. It is a known fact that browsers have inherent vulnerabilities and these vulnerabilities can be readily exploited by cyber-hackers to infiltrate networks. However, if all browsing are done within the isolation platform located in the cloud, there would surely be no chance for malware to exploit the vulnerabilities of browsers.  

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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.

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How to Win The Cyberwar and Prevent any Phishing Threat ‎from Gaining Access into your Network?‎

Wars are not won by being having a passive defense and an army that does not engage the enemies head-on. However, some battles were won by employing effective and well-thought war strategies and tactics. If you would take a look, for example, at some of the military maneuvers that had won battles in the past, you would readily see that one of the most effective military maneuvers is that of the pincer movement, pincer attack, or double envelopment. Great generals and military commanders in the past had effective used the pincer attack in some battles that left their enemies totally vanquished. The pincer movement is basically a maneuver that surrounds the enemies and forces the enemies into submission.

Nowadays, however, wars are not much fought in the terrains and plains. Contemporary wars are mostly waged in cyberspace, and these cyberwars are virulent and protracted likewise. These wars are waged between cyber-hackers and organizational networks, the former trying to breach the defenses of the latter, while the latter waits patiently for the next attack. Yet, this should not be the case, for if cyberwars are real wars, the network owners and security officers should engage the enemies head-on, without any qualm and hesitation in order to win more battles and eventually win the cyberwar. But this is not always the case, for most network security officers only employ passive defenses against malware and phishing threats, and do not engage the enemies using proactive and offensive measures.

The Employment of Pincer Movement in Cyberwars

If cyberwars are real wars, they should also utilize the different military maneuvers that had won battles in the past. They should, for example, simulate the pincer movement of real war, isolating and encircling malwares to submission. The topography of cyberwars are almost similar to real wars, and most networks employ defensive strategies and tactics to ward off any cyber-attack. Networks, for examphttntivirus, antimalware, firewalls, and other defense-oriented measures. Yet, they haven’t totally come up with offensive measures similar to that of counter-deception and pincer movement. It is a good thing however, that there are some security experts who are willing to expand cyberwar strategies and tactics to include offensive thrusts against cyber-attackers.

If you want to win a cyberwar, you need to employ deception. Since most cyber-attackers thrive in using deceptions like those of phishing emails, it is but proper and wise for network owners to also employ deception such as the use of decoy networks to trick and bait cyber-attackers into revealing their nature and behavior. Additionally, network owners should also employ the use of isolation technology, like a pincer attack, that is capable of encircling and containing the enemies within a constraint and limited space. The isolation technology, for example, makes use of isolation platform that enables web users to browse and access their emails, documents, and applications via the isolated platform, thus containing and limiting the striking capability of malware. Just like in the pincer movement which were once used by great generals like Alexander the Great and Khalid Ibn al-Walid, who both never lost a single battle in their lifetime, modern cyberwar generals should also make use of isolation platform to engulf their enemies right at the very onset of the attack.  

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