Network security begins where the user meets the data and the network. The number one avenue of attack is to phish or social engineer your employees, staff, customers and users. Malware is typically introduced at the endpoint when a user clicks on a bad link or falls prey to a social engineered attack. From there it spreads to other endpoints, into the network and to your servers. With today's mobile workforce and the proliferation of devices that people can use from any location to connect to your network data, you cannot assume everyone will always be behind your firewall.
Unico Technology partners with a number of vendors bringing solutions to keeping your users security aware through constant simulated phishing, testing and training. Solutions allow you to track your organizations progress in identifyin simulated phishing email as well as actual phish attempts. The bad "clickers" can be identified and given additional training to ensure they have the knowledge and the tools to safely use email. Email security does not start or end with the user. Other solutions can identify phishing attempts and malware laden emails at the server before they ever get to the recipient.
Almost all users know not to run a computer without "anti-virus" software. Today's threats are far beyond the viruses originally seen on the internet and require new methods and technologies to protect machines from compromise. Gone are the days where "AV" software looked for patterns in files and messages then blocked those as identified as malware. Today's solutions are the next generation of machine protection. Going far beyond pattern matching, solutions now look at behavious that are anomolus to the users standard operation, look for activities that are out of the norm and even go so far as to recognize a user logged in on a US based machine then shortly after, one from across the globe. With current solutions, even zero-day exploits can be identified and blocked.