Over the last week, the Dell SonicWALL threats research team has been tracking down all World Cup-related spam emails. The emails have a common theme of trying to lure users of providing their personal information in exchange for full access to live streaming videos or to claim prizes from a FIFA lottery.
For soccer fans inside and outside of the workplace that are looking for free online streaming of the games on their computers, laptops or mobile devices, they are presented with plenty of bogus sites on the web. Some of these sites will redirect to another URL requiring users to provide their credit card information for full access to live streaming while others will prompt users to download special video playback software or install “missing plugins” that almost assuredly, if users click that URL, they will most likely download malware onto their devices.
“At Dell, we are deeply committed to protect enterprises against business disruption by consistently delivering industry-leading security solutions that are well suited for today’s advanced-threat environment. To meet present-day network security requirements, it is, therefore, imperative to adopt a foolproof framework coalescing the enterprise network that provides deep threat prevention,” said Murli Mohan, General Manager, Dell Software.
Some suggestions:
1) Vigorously defend the endpoints as most network infections begin with a compromised user device. Enforce every device attempting to access the internet to have threat prevention capabilities such as content filtering capable of blocking inappropriate, illegal and dangerous web content.
2) Comprehensive gateway threat detection m services that can provide complete inbound anti-spam, anti-phishing and anti-virus protection.
3) Manage network bandwidth with application control capabilities to provide granular control of certain application – limiting or blocking access – by setting policies based on logical pre-defined categories (such as sports), individual applications, or even users and groups to keep business application running at full speed.
4) Breaking the malware kill cycle by investing in a capable intrusion prevention system because it is far easier to keep the bad guys out than to expel them.
5) Add SSL inspection and application control to detect and prevent today’s advance evasive tactics or compromised web applications from sneaking malware into the network.
6) And finally, ensure that there is a 24x7x365 threat response and counter-intelligence service for the firewalls and intrusion prevention systems so it can quickly receive the latest countermeasures to combat new vulnerabilities as they emerge.
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