Your most important assets are under attack constantly.
Over 70 per cent of the market capitalization of Fortune 500 companies is
attributed to their information assets.
Yet it is the very same assets that are most vulnerable today. Why? Because
companies today have no choice but to connect their internal networks to the
rest of the world to link up with customers, suppliers, partners, and their
employees with one another.
There's almost no machine in the world that is not connected.
With this connectivity comes total vulnerability.
Malicious hackers, criminals, industrial spies; these attackers regularly steal
corporate assets and intellectual property, cause service breaks and system
failures, mar corporate brands, and destroy businesses. And this can happen to
the data on your computer when you least expect it, when you're checking your
email, and even when you're offline.
Safe from Hackers?
A ten year old sitting half way across the world could be stealing your data as
you read this.
Hacking no longer requires experts. There are literally thousands of
off-the-shelf programs available on the Internet that are as easy to use as the
software packages you are so familiar with.
Anyone, even a child with limited or no computer know-how, can use these
packages to hack into your systems. There is no defined, requisite learning
curve - the amount of knowledge or background essential to be an effective
'hacker' is virtually zero.
Now, this 'hacker', probably knows your credit card number and where you took
your spouse for your anniversary dinner.
Safe while surfing?
Not by a long shot...
Did you know that even looking at a malicious web page exposes your computer to
attacks. Hidden scripts on malicious web pages, that activate while surfing the
Net, can pick up files from your hard drive and render them vulnerable by
putting them at the hacker's mercy.
Safe when merely sending mail?
Not really, read on...
Simple acts like going online to check your mail exposes your machine to being
hacked. It is a trivial task to 'wiretap' somebody's email, so that all future
correspondence is now in the hacker's inbox as well.
Safe offline?
Now for the really bad news...
If you thought you were safe because your PC is not connected to the Internet
consider this: FBI and Computer Security Institute's Computer Crime Report 2000
reported that insiders were the biggest threat to corporate security.
Even the best of firewall and network security measures are useless, if your
employees' PCs aren't protected.
What's the solution? Secure data, not just the networks.
Most companies invest millions of dollars in putting up firewalls and trying to
secure their networks. Ironically they spend the least amount of money in
protecting the area where the data actually resides or is created, the PCs
their employees use.
The costs involved in securing data at the user level are minimum and its
criticality maximum.
Encryption renders your data, even if accessed by an unauthorized person,
unintelligible and unusable. By adopting the simplest prevention techniques,
you can ensure complete security and data privacy.
This is where Cypherix® comes in. Our solutions address this basic security
need - encrypting and protecting data where it is created and resides in its
most vulnerable state -the PC.
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