Are your employees’ browsing habits inviting malware?

With such a widespread increase in malicious, fraudulent, phishing and scamming sites appearing daily, what guarantees does the IT administrator have that one of the employees will not visit a website that has been compromised and infected by malware?

Very few! And those guarantees disappear if the organization does not have adequate security solutions in place. We’re not talking just email security here but web security as well.

A recent survey among small and medium businesses in the US found that 40% know with certainty that they suffered some sort of security breach as a result of employees navigating to websites that host malware, infected downloads or have been corrupted by malicious code. The Internet is a hornets’ nest of malware and other nasties and the bad guys are primed to pounce on suspecting users. What is worrying is that despite the high risk of infection, there are still organizations that are not paying attention to the problem or they are doing so for a good but not necessarily the most important reason.