AVAREN Blog Post
Viruses and Legal Liability
by Matt Logan. August 2009
Recently,
while doing research on a related issue I discovered
some rather frightening concepts concerning computer
viruses and legal liability. Apparently if a computer or
individual within your business spreads a virus onto the
machines of another organization, your business could be
liable for damages. This is a rather frightening
prospect considering damages from such an event could be
catastrophic for businesses lacking solid backup
protection. How could one begin to quantify the
replacement cost of decades worth of business data?
The obvious answer is to attempt to put redundant
systems in place for anti-virus. In essence the
prescription would be for one AV system on the computers
and another AV system at the internet gateway. The
gateway system would serve to help prevent the bad guys
from penetrating to the machines to begin with and also
help contain them if an outbreak occurs. Because the
gateway can only govern itself, a separate system must
exist on the individual machines as well to prevent the
introduction of viruses from the internal network, and
serve as redundant protection for things missed by
the gateway device. With
the help of the advanced Calyptix Access Enforcer
firewall we no longer have to rely on a single layer of
“internet bad guy protection”. The devices are
affordable and serve other neat functions like email you
reports of which websites your employees are visiting.
See our page on the Calyptix Access Enforcer firewall
for more information on this breakthrough device.
http://www.avaren.com/dallas-network-security-fort-worth.htm
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