- This week's two-minute Tuesday.
How to stop yourself visiting dodgy websites: intro.
Can you see I'm starting to build
a collection up of vintage storage media?
Sounds really, really geeky,
but it's actually quite interesting.
Let me just show you something quickly.
These are old school, very old school floppy disks.
Check out how big that bad boy is.
Look at that!
It's really interesting just to see how
quickly and how far technology comes in
relatively a short period of time, so yeah.
Anyway I'll just pop those ones back.
So web security is something you probably don't think
you need but you really, really do.
Oh I'm dying!
So sorry if my eyes are a bit ...
I'm really suffering right now with,
dunno if it's hay fever, or cold or something that's ...
So most people will think of web filtering
as something out there that can
stop you visiting various websites,
like blocking your online shopping
or Facebook or social media.
But actually it's something that
can be used to very, very seriously
upgrade the level of security on your networks.
It can be just as damaging to catch something
through a website as it can do to receive an email
that has malicious files onto it.
And it furthermore adds another layer of protection
to those emails you're receiving,
that have a link you should click on,
and then you click on the link,
and again your web protection kicks in if your
email protection hasn't already caught it.
So it's about having multiple layers of security.
You have your email protection.
Yes, it's gonna scan that email and see if it's malicious.
It's gonna try and scan the attachment
or the link that's embedded within the email,
but if for whatever reason it doesn't pick that up,
then the web protection adds another level of security,
another thing that's gonna scan it using
someone else's algorithms, someone else's systems
and then determine whether that link is dodgy or not.
Decent web protection can block
the stuff that you're downloading as well,
not just the pages you're visiting.
But if you're downloading malicious content,
it'll be able to look at that whilst it's downloading,
know it's malicious and block it outright.
And as with anything, there's no 100% guarantees
that a web protection software's gonna block
all malicious content from being downloaded.
That's why you have your email protection,
your web protection, your anti-virus.
So I've just run a very quick report,
a random subset of our customers
who've had web protection and web filtering
in place for the last 30 days.
The software we're using has serviced
a total of 21.6 million queries.
There have been 356 security events,
and 273 of those have been malware that have been blocked.
273 times they could have caught something,
but they didn't because of the web protection.
And these are customers that have the email protection,
they've got antivirus in place,
they've got all the other things they need,
but the web protection has still caught 273 things.
So it's not like you're paying
for something and not using it, it is there all the time,
it's constantly looking at things,
it's constantly blocking the malicious content.
Even if you've got all the other things in place,
if you don't have web protection,
you really, really must get it in place.
It's not very expensive, it's another two,
three, four pounds per user, per month.
And yes of course, these things do all add up,
but it's why we've actually created our essentials package.
So we have a package that we've bundled together,
which is your email protection, your web protection,
your windows updates, your virus protection.
All of that stuff is wrapped up into one simple bundle
which we call our essentials package.
And that is 12 pounds per user, per month.
It gets you well on the way now-a-days to things like
your PCI compliance, your cyber-essential certifications,
even your liability insurance because lots of
insurers are now asking technical questions on
how you are protecting your business
from these kinds of threats.
So if you don't already have web security for business,
now's the time to consider it.
If you're interested of course,
get in touch, give me a call on this number,
connect with me on Linked In,
get in touch through email or phone,
whatever's easiest for you, and we'll sort you out.
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