We’ve just recovered from one of the most intrusive viruses to date with minimal damage to the client’s network. It’s been two days since the incident and with the client’s network up and running as usual, I’ve found some time to write a post about it. I’ll go over what the virus is, how it affected the network, and what we did to contain and then eliminate the threat, as well as prevention measures. It started with a firewall detection of a suspicious file being downloaded t

We attended the Sandler Partners Summit this past Tuesday, October 16th. It holds great information for the people in the IT and Sales worl

Cyber-criminals use different types of attack vectors and malware to compromise networks. The five most typical types are viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and ransomware. Computer viruses were originally spread through the sharing of infected floppy disks. As technology evolved, so too did the distribution method. Today, viruses are commonly spread through file sharing, web downloads and email attachments. Computer worms have existed since the late 1980s but were no

One of the recent project required to setup DPI-SSL for the network. Customer need to block part of the URL on the link. normally content filter can block the domain or categories of the website, however what if you need to block part of the sensitive url? ex: www.domain.com is ok to access, but block, www.domain.com/download? Well DPI-SSL will allow you to block that specific URL. In addition, you want to allow yourself but block your staff? no problem, we can setup exclusio