You know your business better than anyone else. How much money will you lose due to system downtime? What is your cost to recovery? How much is your data worth? I think the answer here is simple; pay the ransom if it is going to seriously affect your business.
Long before technology took over our world, CEOs held the role of total responsibility. If a company started to lose profits, market share, etc. the CEO was to blame.
Long gone are the days of business and IT segregation.
Are you in the midst of a merger, acquisition, or is your organization complex? If so you may be experiencing this challenge.
The digital age has brought amazing innovations to the working world like Skype, Dropbox, Office 365, and so much more. At the same time, the digital age has brought many headaches and concerns. Some in the form of a disastrous Ransomware attack on healthcare systems and others of less grave consequences such as a faulty Wi-Fi connection.
Cloud services are being touted as the most important technology in decades. For proof, look no further than the public cloud’s largest businesses. As of July 2016, Microsoft’s cloud applications were selling better than their flagship Windows Operating System. Amazon had more income from web services than sales of goods internationally.
When most people think of endpoint protection, they think of antivirus software. But targeted attacks can use a new threat that is able to evade detection or some embedded malicious content in an iFrame could bypass antivirus software leading to even more dangerous threats that most are unprotected from.
Palo Alto Networks acquired Cyvera and branded this product as ‘Traps’. You may have seen similar products on the market, like Microsoft EMET. However, Traps integrates into WildFire, Palo Alto Network’s sandboxing technology. Plus it’s a mature product, as you’ll see below.
Traditional antivirus-based protection is based on signatures – it requires prior knowledge of the threat in order to be effective. According to Palo Alto Networks, over 20,000 new forms of malware are created per day. Antivirus-based solutions have to build signatures against all of those new forms, then distribute those signatures out to all the endpoints. This takes time and has a negative impact on the effectiveness of many antivirus solutions.
Traps is very effective against zero-day based attacks. The attacker would run into one of the exploit prevention modules within Traps, the process gets terminated, the user is alerted that an attack was prevented, and the administrator receives an alert. Traps collects forensics and provide it to the administrator.
To learn more about Cyber Security threats and prevention check out our blog where you can find dozens of articles written by our expert team members.
Since 2011, Bird Rock Systems has been recognized by a number of publications to be among the fastest growing private companies.
In 2011 and 2013, Bird Rock Systems was featured in Inc 500
In 2012, Bird Rock Systems was ranked on CRN’s 2012 Fast Growth list.
The list is made up of solution providers, resellers, VARs, outsourcing firms and consultants that have had impressive growth rates between 2009 and 2011.
In 2013, Bird Rock Systems placed 82 on CRN’s 2013 Fast Growth 150 list!
CRN’s Fast Growth 150 is our annual ranking of the fastest growing business and technology integrators, solution providers, resellers and IT consultants in North America.
This year, Bird Rock Systems is on the San Diego Business Journal's 2014 list of the Fastest Growing Private Companies!
Thank you to all that attended our Tech Lunch and Learn last Thursday March 14th. We had some exciting presentations from A-10 Networks, Silver Peak Systems, and Imperva. Best of all, we enjoyed quality steaks and seafood thanks to Ruth's Chris. No worries if you missed the event... we host these events often. See you at the next one!!!
Topics Covered
- Silver Peak on WAN Optimization Software
- A-10 on DDoS Protection and Security
- Imperva on Cloud Web Application Firewall
Bird Rock team!
If you want to learn more contact Mike @ 858-777-1606.
Check out the results and pictures from the 2013 Farmers Insurance Open at the Torrey Pines Golf Course. Bird Rock Systems, Dell, and VMware hosted a Torrey Pines Suite on the oceanview 16th green Saturday, Januray 26th.
Even though golf was fogged out on Saturday, it turned out to be a awesome day! A lot of our customers showed up to the Farmers Open and stayed thoughout the day. It was a lot of fun hanging out with San Diego IT professionals enjoying good food and cool refreshments from the comfort of our suite. Customers also had the opportunity to talk one on one with VMware, Dell Compellent, and Bird Rock Systems. Overall, fun and productive day!!
Results Below
Agenda on Saturday the 26th
8:30am
Start of Round 3 of 2013 Farmers Insurance Open Golf Tournament on the South Course
9:30am – 4:00pm
Bird Rock Systems, VMware, Dell Compellent Suite Opens
10:30am – 3:30pm
Open Bar
11:00am – 2:30pm
Buffet Lunch
