Verbeter Group

Step 1: Deploy strong antivirus with small memory footprint, increasing performance, reducing lag.

The first thing anyone should do is invest in antivirus. It doesn’t matter if you have your computer for just 1 hour or 1 day. The moment you are unprotected and it just happens to be your lucky day some malicious hacker decides to distribute destructive malware, you’re done for.

Look for an antivirus that has a small memory footprint. A small memory footprint will increase computer performance when the antivirus scanner performs on-the-fly scanning on your system. Some antivirus may produce a noticeable lag and this may hamper your productivity resulting in a poor Internet Experience.

Step 2: Lock down all applications that doesn’t need to be launched. Close ports that doesn’t need to be open. Authorize those that do.

All malware are essentially computer programs. Antivirus does a great job at blacklisting malicious software and removing them. But it is not easy to keep track of all malware as there are always new and derivative ones every day. A computer system that only has antivirus may not be completely protected from a zero-day attack.

The best form of protection is performed by Application Whitelisting. This is a set of approved executables which only you allow. So even if you have accidentally exposed yourself to a malicious application, your system will not run the malicious code that could destroy or steal your data.

Application Whitelisting software also usually has a firewall system and only opens the ports of the computer that is required for optimal functioning. Ports that are unnecessary will be turned off.

An antivirus software is still needed to remove the offending code, even though the whitelist has prevented it from running.

Step 3: Backup Backup Backup all important files to the cloud.

Face it. Shit happens. Malicious hackers are getting smarter and many security deployments can be compromised by a competent and conscientious hacker. If you data is compromised, thank God you made backups the day before. Oh wait. You didn’t. Most data loss is internal, usually done by disgruntled employees or those leaving the company. A backup system is extremely neccessary as your company may cease to exist if you lost all your company’s sales records with just one click of delete from a former employee. We usually prefer remote and secure online backups because it eco-friendly, simple, and efficient.