After Black Friday, small business Saturday, and now cyber Monday, holiday shopping is in full swing. While going to the mall might lend a ding on your car door, going online from the workplace can have a much worse impact on you and your company.
Cyber Monday not only traditionally draws workers away from spread sheets and emails and into online shopping sprees, but also brings them slower to Malicious attacks. According to a recent CNET article There will no doubt be malware hiding on retail sites, fake sites created just for distributing viruses and Trojans, and e-mails with malware-laden attachments and links leading to nastiness. Once inside the corporate network, the malware can easily spread to other computers in the company and leave back doors that can be used later for nefarious purposes, putting corporate data at risk.
Unless a company forbids Web surfing on company time and uses software to monitor and enforce the policy, there is little recourse once workers start browsing. IT departments should do what they can to protect the networks before then, by using the most up-to-date spam filters and anti-malware software and adjusting the enterprise Internet settings to alert users when a program attempts to download something.
TNS Group specializes in internet security and privacy not only on Cyber Monday, but all year round. With cutting edge spam filters, malware detectors, and various web monitoring tools, TNS helps IT departments control what does, and doesn’t appear on employees computer screens.
Contact Us today to learn more about these and other services, and keep your company safe from holiday hackers.
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